Restaurant Will Focus on Healthy Lifestyle

A commitment to a healthy lifestyle and the environment as well as good food will be the primary focus when Deerfield’s newest proposed restaurant opens its doors at 780 Saunders Road in Deerfield.

Planning to be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day, the eatery will have separate menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner but each one will be prepared with the good health of the clientele in mind.

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“Everything you see on the menu will have a longevity component,” Upasana Abbott, one of the owners, said. “Spices like turmeric are on the top of my mind. They (help) prevent Alzheimer’s and cancer.”

Abbott, who has a Ph.D. in nutritional science, will do everything she can to create a menu that will help people live longer. The name of the company owned by Abbott and her husband, Anil Abbott, is Health O Wealth.

“If you don’t have good health you don’t have any wealth,” Anil Abbott said explaining the company philosophy. The Abbotts will be joined in the business by their son, Lakshay Abbott, who will graduate from college with a degree in nutrition.

The menu will include wraps with grilled chicken, turkey or other white meat, healthy spices and fresh vegetables. The Abbotts will grow a lot of the produce on the property.

“We will try to grow as many (of the vegetables) as we can in the Chicago climate,” Upsana Abbott said. “They will be cooked to preserve the best taste.” Anil Abbott specifically mentioned tomatoes and green peppers.

Once the Abbotts get final approval from the Village, they will hire a chef and finalize the menu.

The Abbotts are committed to environmental health as well as nutritional wellbeing. They are dedicated to being as close to zero waste as possible. They will compost as much of their refuse as they can and heavily recycle. Nothing will be fried leaving no fat residue.

For Anil Abbott the reason is simple. “It’s good for the environment,” he said.

Abbott’s wife agrees, expanding on the family’s commitment to the planet. “We want to see as little go to a landfill as possible.”

The Abbotts received a recommendation from the Plan Commission April 11 and the Village Board of Trustees will consider a final approval in June, according to Associate Planner Kathy Leveque.

Once they get ratification from the Village, the Abbotts must demolish an old house on the property dating to 1885 and erect a new structure.

The Abbots are no strangers to the area. They own the service station at the southeast corner of the intersection of Deerfield and Saunders Roads and plan to build their restaurant on a property adjacent to the south.

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