Food an adult will enjoy or a meal the kids willactually eat? Fresh ingredients or fast service?When it comes to choosing a casual restaurant, itoften seems customers have to prioritize and thensettle. Cabo Fresh California Mexican Surf Grillchanges all that. It offers everything on yourchecklist plus something you may not have con-sidered: an eco-friendly restaurant using fully sus-tainable, biodegradable, compostable products.Restaurateur James DiVilio, his wife Diana, andtheir three children all work in the restaurantbusiness together. James started Cabo Fresh to fill,“a growing need for fast casual restaurants serv-ing real food that is good for you in a fun, cleanand beautiful environment.” He has 27 years ex-perience in creating and launching innovativerestaurant concepts. Some of his previous ven-tures include Chefs of NY in East Northport, Tor-cello’s Italian Restaurant in Elwood, and The BajaGrill Mexican chain. In addition to Cabo Fresh,DiVilio currently owns Eldorado American Grillein Port Jefferson Station. He sold the other busi-nesses, which have all continued to thrive, inorder to focus on creating this new brand.

The menu at Cabo Fresh is simple, but thechoices enable endless customization. Choosefrom gourmet burritos, salads, tacos, Baja Bowls,

quesadillas, nachos and a delicious kids menu. Thefood is made fresh every day, without many of thechemicals commonly found in fast food. Drinks in-clude fresh fruit smoothies or beer and margaritasfor a fun night out or impromptu after-work gettogether. There’s also an affordable and appetiz-ing catering menu with taco and nacho bar op-tions.

When creating Cabo Fresh, the DiVilio familydecided a green business was a positive, con-structive way for them to give back. Their goal isto use products made of eco-friendly sugarcanepaper and cornstarch plastic. Kitchen food wasteis composted, cooking oils, bottles and cans arerecycled and the cleaning products used in therestaurant are non-toxic. The tables, chairs andwainscoting are all made from reclaimed or sus-tainable products and reclaimed metal is usedwhenever possible.

Cabo Fresh is the perfect place to enjoy a mealbefore or after a movie, or anytime! Come in andsee why they’re winning rave reviews and recom-mendations. Located at 2182 Nesconset Highway,Stony Brook, in the Loews Movie Theatre Shop-ping Center. Check out their website atwww.cabofreshmex.com or call 631-751-2226.