So on Friday night Mike and I went to the movies, but first we wanted to get dinner. So we drove around Fast-food hell near the intersection of 9 and 30 in Framingham, and I saw this sign saying Big Fresh. I thought it might be something like Fresh City, a fast-food joint which isn't as unhealthy as McDonald's. (Sorry McDonald's).
We pulled in and there, crammed between cheap Chinese fast food and pizza, we found a beautiful little green gem, an emerald if you will. A real restaurant, tiny but with a great atmosphere, very fast without being "fast food", all natural food, locally grown organic produce, etc. We ordered spicy thai peanut stir-fry and thai curry chicken and broccoli over jasmine rice, each $8.75 I think, and they were delicious. For drinks, at the suggestion of the owner I got carbonated maple sap (which is the actual sap as it drips from the tree, carbonated, manufactured by Vermont Sweetwater) and I thought it was out of this world. Mike had organic pale ale beer which was tasty too. They have lots of other tasty-sounding entrees as well as sandwiches and falafel, and everything is reasonably priced. What a find!
On top of everything, there was a sign there offering movie passes, which we bought with dinner, and ended up saving $4.50 on movie tickets. Thanks Big Fresh! They don't appear to have a website, but they got a nice review in the Globe. I can't wait to go there again. It was a really good experience.
We went there the other day and it was good again! Highly recommended.
Posted by: Iz | December 04, 2007 at 11:46 AM