Envy me. I ate healthy fast food tonight.

[supernova]

I ate at a fast food place that sells all organic, vegan, and low fat fast food.

:9 :9 :9

I had a Mediterranean salad with chicken breast. Washed it down with green tea. :9 :9

The place was all green bamboo walls and white furniture. And the music was lounge-y. Mr Scorpio, did you do their music consulting? ;-)

It felt like they should also have been serving martinis. :crazy:

I'll definitely go back again. :thumbsup:

http://www.evos.com/

[SoxFan]

1. Where's the fun in that?

I need to go have ribs, brisket, and a fried pickle in your honor.

Live fast, eat well, and leave a bloated corpse.

[supernova]

4. Ha. I love ribs.

:9

Brisket, .... I won't fight you for it. :P

[SoxFan]

14. The local BBQ joint has a kick-ass combo

Chicken, ribs, pulled pork, corn bread, "grungy rice", cole slaw.

I'm thinking about skipping the romantic dinner and going there tomorrow. When you're married to a country girl from southeast Arkansas, you can get away with that sort of thing!

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. Sounds delicious!

There should be many more of that kind of fast food restaurant!

I have two Vietnamese pho restaurants within walking distance of where I live. The food is wonderful - and healthy.

[supernova]

5. I wish there were

There are some better choices now to traditional restaurants, but I can still fall off the wagon so easily going there that I just don't want to tempt myself anymore.

Pho is delish! I love the broth. I wish I could replicate it. :9 :9 :9

[flvegan]

3. I've eaten there many times.

I love the air fried fries. Evos originated here in Tampa. Glad they've spread out a bit.

[supernova]

7. I really wanted the fries

but I'm doing so well with my regime that I didn't want to risk it.

I did get some of their chili to take home. I'll have that for lunch tomorrow.

Didn't realize they had started in FL.

You mean FL did something right?

:hide:

:D

[flvegan]

10. It's one of the few things, I know.

But yeah, we had three of them in Tampa, and then it started taking off elsewhere.

I used to have e-mail conversations with one of the founders, Dino, about how they needed a couple more vegan options. He and I have a love/hate thing going on.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. We had something like that, but it went out of business. :^(

[Shell Beau]

8. We have NO place like that around here. NO place at all.

The healthiest places fast food-wise we have around here are Abner's and Jason's Deli. And they really aren't fast food.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Chicken is vegan?

[supernova]

11. Yes, there's an all soy chicken now

didn't you know?

:P

No they have some vegan food options on the menu, probably moreso than other restaurants. You can turn them carnivorous by adding meat, which is what I did.

Their chili is vegan, for instance. I got some to take home. I'll have that for lunch tomorrow. :9

[flvegan]

12. They used to have more vegan options.

It's mostly organic free range critter now, with (I think) one vegan burger and a couple vegan sides (salad, chili, fries).

It used to be a bit better for the veg*n crowd when they first started up.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. By the way, I am totally psyched that my favorite vegan Chinese restaurant

just opened up a new location 10 minutes from my house. They've added a vegan sushi bar, too.

[begin_within]

15. What are the prices like?

The menu you can download from their web site has no prices. It seems like this kind of place would be a huge hit in health-and-fitness conscious southern California, but they have only 2 California locations so far, in faraway San Luis Obispo and Oxnard. The menu looks great.

[flvegan]

16. Here, it's very competitive, considering.

Last time I was there, I got the combo meal of the burger, fries and drink, and I think I spent around $5-6. I know you can get McCrap for $4 or so, but the burger is proportionately bigger, and the fries were a larger serving as well.

PLUS, you get an option between 4 different types of ketchup!

[begin_within]

17. Thanks, those are good prices

Burger Lounge here, for a comparable meal, would be easily over $11 - burger only is $6.95, fried $2.95, drink $1.95 - all high quality stuff, but twice the price of EVOS. Organic tallgrass-fed beef, organic turkey or quinoa burger and believe it or not, the quinoa is the best tasting of them! EVOS has a much larger and diverse menu though. I hope they open locations in San Diego, I'd become a regular there.