Evos fast-food restaurant
A friend and I were in Chapel Hill recently, and when we stopped at Trader Joe’s (ah, glorious, glorious Trader Joe’s), we discovered a new-concept fast-food restaurant nearby: Evos, billed as “feel great fast food.” We had already eaten, but we were so intrigued we had to go in to check it out.
The restaurant looks like a bright version of a typical fast-food restaurant, with “green” slogans and photos on the walls. You order at the counter and wait for your food to be presented on a tray. They tout that their burgers are free of hormones and antibiotics, that their salads are made with organic greens, and that their milkshakes use milk from free-range cows raised hormone- and antibiotic-free. It’s pricier than most fast-food restaurants, but you get what you pay for.
For vegetarians, the menu offers a veggie burger, a southwestern soy taco, veggie chili and a couple of salads. Unfortunately, I was too full to try any of them.
But even though we were stuffed, we couldn’t resist getting an order of Airfries (baked, not deep-fried) and some lightly sweetened, nice citrus-flavored iced tea. A fun touch is their ketchup bar, with garlic, mesquite and spicy ketchup as well as traditional. The fries were unfortunately a tad undercooked, but we weren’t sure if that was because they had rushed them out because they made them fresh for us. I thought they tasted rather like the microwave ones that come frozen in the little paper trays. Did they taste as good as typical deep-fried ones? Well, no, but since they weren’t dripping in oil, I felt a lot better about eating them.
According to the Evos Web site, there are only nine locations across the country right now (two next to a Trader Joe’s!), so it’s pretty remarkable there’s one in North Carolina.
