'Mega' sushi buffet set to open on Pearl Harbor Day

A press release promises the 400-seat interior of the Hackensack sushi buffet restaurant will be "chic" and "Vegas-style." 

By Victor E. Sasson
Editor

POC American Fusion Buffet & Sushi -- a new Hackensack restaurant serving Japanese-style raw fish crafted by a chef who worked at top Japanese restaurants -- is set to open on the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A press release, apparently put out today, Veterans Day, said the restaurant will open on Dec. 7.

Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, drawing the United States into World War II.

More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died. The anniversary is known as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The POC news release was reported by Second Helpings, an online food blog from The Record, a daily newspaper in Woodland Park.

POC is renovating the space formerly occupied by Green Grill, a rodizio-style buffet restaurant at 450 Hackensack Ave., in Hackensack's Home Depot Shopping Center. 




The restaurant will be the first POC "mega buffet" in the tri-state area, according to the press release from Port of Call owner Will Lin.

It will be open 7 days for lunch ($13.69), weekend brunch ($17.99) and dinner ($24.99 to $27.99).

Besides sushi and other seafood, the buffet will offer a carving station; a cold bar with more than 20 salads; and a hot bar with "Grand Marnier Prawns, Citrus Filet Sole, Veal Osso Buco [and] vegetarian-friendly options."

'Mega' buffet restaurant set for Hackensack mall

Port of Call, a "mega" buffet restaurant, is renovating this building at 450 Hackensack Ave., in Hackensack's Home Depot Shopping Center, where Green Grill operated for more than a decade.

By Victor E. Sasson
Editor

Port of Call, a "mega" buffet restaurant, is renovating the space once occupied by Green Grill in the Home Depot Shopping Center in Hackensack.

Port of Call describes its food as "American fusion and sushi." Its Web site says it will open in "winter 2013."

Green Grill, a Brazilian-style rodizio restaurant known for its gargantuan, all-you-can-eat meals, had 44o seats, and likely was the city's largest restaurant.

In 2005, the restaurant was taken over by new Korean owners.

In recent years, even a $9.95 all-you-can eat lunch couldn't save it.  It closed in late 2012.

Port of Call will be open six days a week from 11 a.m. to midnight, and close on Sundays. I don't know whether POC will have a liquor license.

Other Port of Call buffet restaurants are in Coral Gables and Weston, Fla.

The Coral Gables outpost offers more than 150 items at lunch ($13.19), Saturday and Sunday brunch ($16.19) and dinner ($20.19 to $22.69), according to the Web site.

The new buffet restaurant isn't expected to be a threat to another tenant of the shopping center, Lotus Cafe, a Chinese BYO where the emphasis is on quality, not quantity.

The interior is being renovated.

A small sign announcing the new tenant.