One of the great quirks of living in a city is watching the turnover of restaurants in certain spaces.  Since I started working in Boston, I’ve seen a lot of places come and go near Downtown Crossing, and one of my old favorite locations was the Know Fat! establishment near the Eddie Bauer.  I loved Know Fat! because it pretended to be a healthy dining establishment, yet all of the food was still really fatty.  Also, if you want to be a healthy restaurant, you should probably not associate the word fat into your name.  Fortunately, the new Ufood Grill (technically it’s been here a year) has taken its place and has dropped the fat in the title.

Unlike Know Fat!, Ufood Grill has a veggie burger.  After eating the veggie burger, I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not, as the burger was slightly uncooked (which is disgusting coming from a frozen patty).  Also, it was one of the “fake hamburger” style of veggie burger, rather than being a vegetable patty that I typically prefer.  Part of the reason giving up meat was so easy for me was that I only used to eat crappy processed food from fast food chains.  So, while this veggie burger was pleasantly nostalgic, I could have done without eating such rubbish.

As disgusting as the burger was, the fries were actually pretty tasty.  This was one pleasant continuation from Know Fat, which had delicious fries, that they insisted were low fat, but were in reality something like 500 calories per serving.  Overall, there are far more vegetarian options at Ufood Grill than the previous incarnation, which makes sense for a place that encourages healthy eating.  That was the most vexing aspect of Know Fat! since I could not fathom a restaurant that insisted it was healthy eating, when they had so few vegetarian options.  While their veggie burger is pretty generic and terrible, they do have a lot of other choices that are decent for a fast food joint.  The most fair comparison of Ufood is to other fast food places, and on those criteria, Ufood is pretty good, so I’ll give it three and a half cheese sandwiches.

Ufood Grill
530 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111-1723 
(617) 451-0043