New restaurant in Plaza-Midwood

Look for Café Central to open quietly sometime at the beginning of next week at 1401 Central Ave., if all goes according to plan. Peter Herrero, whom you may remember from uptown’s Café 521 years ago, is at the helm of this place, which he says will offer “New York bar food… but a little more rounded.”

That means burgers from meat ground in-house, couscous, sandwiches big enough to sustain an extra few slices of bread (on the house, and from Nova, says Herrero), some pastas, salads, gelati and more.

Herrero, whose Café Central in New York City was called “a saloon that’s also a salon” by People magazine in 1984, has done consulting the past 15 years, but steps again into the fray with this venture, in a multi-tenanted building that will also house a theatrical “black box.” Expect nothing over about $17 and most things less, and details such as housemade mozzarella and stocks with no salt; says Herrero, “I don’t have any salt in my diet, so NO ONE will have salt.” James Hobday, formerly of Upstream, is in the kitchen.