Egg Harbor incoming to Wilmette’s Optima building on Green Bay Road

It’s the more the merrier in downtown Wilmette, where yet another restaurant is on the way.

Egg Harbor Cafe plans to open its 19th Illinois location on the first floor of Optima Verdana, an Optima official confirmed to The Record. No further details were immediately available, and it is unclear when the breakfast-lunch restaurant will open.

Optima Verdana is a six-story, 100-unit apartment building at 1210 Central Ave. — the corner of Central Avenue and Green Bay Road. The development has 8,000 square feet of first-floor commercial space, which Optima previously reported would be occupied by one or two businesses.

Egg Harbor’s first location opened in 1985 in Hinsdale and, now Egg Harbor has restaurants in three states (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and six in Georgia). Glenview, Lake Forest and Evanston are home to Egg Harbor restaurants in the area, and there is a location in an Optima building in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.

An Egg Harbor menu is packed with Midwest favorites, such as skillets, omelets, pancakes and waffles, and more for breakfast. A full-service lunch is also offered, primarily sandwiches and salads.

In the downtown Wilmette area, Egg Harbor will be the fourth breakfast location, joining Hotcakes on Wilmette Avenue, Fuel on Washington Court and EvaDean’s on Central Avenue. Beloved morning spot Walker Bros. Original Pancake House is just down the street on Green Bay Road, while Central Station Coffee and Tea is also in downtown Wilmette.

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