Vietnamese Restaurant Opening in Former Cafe Nia & Baker Boys Location

By • Oct 22nd, 2010 • Category: Blog, Food

The corner location at Newark Avenue and Monmouth Street in Downtown Jersey City that was formerly home to Cafe Nia and the Baker Boys Cafe is about to get a new tenant: Rue Viet, a Vietnamese restaurant and sandwich shop.

The restaurant is being opened by Dianna Munz, a Hoboken native who has opened two restaurants in Brooklyn — Paninoteca 275 in Carroll Gardens and Red Hook’s Hope & Anchor, which she opened with partner Gary Rego (he’s also her partner in Rue Viet).

This will be Munz’s first restaurant back on this side of the Hudson, and it will offer “a mix of Asian flavors,” including pork buns, noodle curry, pork belly, pho and Banh Mi sandwiches.

The restaurant is slated to open in November, with Monday-Friday hours of 11 am to 11 pm for lunch and dinner and weekend hours of 9 am to 11 pm for all three meals.

Photo: James Young

THE DETAILS
Rue Viet | 270 Newark Ave. | 201-918-2704 | rueviet.com

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  • Anna

    OK this is awesome and has me really excited. Seems like a perfect addition to the neighborhood, and I will go out of my way for some good pho or bahn mi!

  • http://nogaspipeline.org Stephen

    I hope they make a vegetarian version of the Banh Mi sandwich without fish oil. There was a place in Brooklyn did that and I was forever grateful.

  • nothanks

    I almost always wish any new business that attempts to open in Jersey City luck ,but this is just plain ridiculous. . . Why would you open an obnoxious, fad Vietnamese banh mi shop within sight of two Vietnamese Groceries which also sell them? Both Steven’s Cho Saigon Market and Nah Trang market sell excellent Bahn Mi for for 3 or 4 bucks. Not only is a bad business plan but it is also a smug thing to do in Jersey City’s little micro Vietnamtown.

    This sounds like just another overexposed, yuppified, food business serving a product that is less authentic and costs much more money. The owner should stick to opening places in Carrol Gardens, Hoboken, and Manhattan.

    I have a better idea how about they make it a cupcake/banh mi joint just so they can be even more obnoxious.

    All I can hope is this place will suck some of the crowds out of Nha Trang, a truly great, affordable place, so it will be easier for me to get a table on weekends . . .

  • Jayson

    nothanks, you must work for the JC Chamber of Commerce.

  • Clifton

    Doesn’t nothanks realize how pathetic they soaund? And that anyone with a brain realizes they’re just another coward hiding behind an anonymous screenname? Probably just some bitter local business owner afraid of the competition. As Glinda said to the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz – “Why don’t you go away, before a house falls on you too.”