This place absolutely sucked. Want to know how I really feel?

Know Fat!

530 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 451-0043
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http://www.knowfat.com/

So Emily, Christina, and I went on a very long walk all around the whole damn city to check out the cows. After hours and hours of walking we needed to refuel. We thought we would try Know Fat! since we were in the neighborhood and all that’s really around Downtown crossing is food carts stuff. Anyway, someone we know goes there semi-often, so how bad could it be?

Pretty frickin’ bad, yo. That’s how bad.

Maybe it’s my fault because I make the assumption that the point of opening a business that serves food is to sell people food that tastes good. I think what’s taking place at Know Fat is that these people are really selling a lifestyle and the food biproduct they hock is crap.

I got a cheeseburger to taste something generic I could compare against other places. They made it sound good by saying it was ground sirloin, all wheat bun, fresh vegetables, etc. Frankly, when they served it I thought it was going to be very tasty.

But as I’m walking back to the table, I realize something: that was NOT enough time to cook a hamburger. There’s no way they could cook a patty and assemble a burger in that amount of time, even if cooked rare. So right there I know they just reheated the food instead of cooking it.

I bite into the thing and the patty is just a big hunk of tasteless grey matter. It’s way overcooked and really chunky because it’s 100% lean beef. This was not a tasty burger at all. It was a decoy.

Dressed in a fine all-wheat bun and topped with some sweet tomatoes, I was deceived into thinking I was getting something worth the $5 I paid for it. No fries by the way, but I actually thought that was fine since fries don’t exactly fit in with the healthy eating name. I was, however, very hungry. So I chowed down anyhow. Stupid decoy burger.

The place is all about nutrition, or so they say. Everything there is processed though; there isn’t a single whole food in the place for sale. Even $tarbucks has salads and fruit and stuff these days. They didn’t have a single thing in there that was fresh. Actually, they sold products which are imposible to define as fresh or not -all those weird ‘health’ food bars and shit would survive a nuclear holocaust.

The only redeeming part of the meal was the smoothie which was actually pretty good, but considering the shady burger I wouldn’t assume that a tasty smoothie was the result of fresh fruits and such. All in all, I probably wouldn’t ever return to this place. If I worked at downtown crossing it might be an alternative to all the fast food down there, but then I’d probably hurl myself off the Pru before I let that happen.

Christina seemed to like the balls though.