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Stop the presses: Downtown Crossing getting a Taco Bell
By adamg on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 4:51pm
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Impending Taco Bell.
Cybah reports the culinary hole left by the closing of the Summer Street Subway is being filled by a Taco Bell.
Boston currently has just one Taco Bell, even if barely: On VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, just up from the Dedham line (it shares space with Boston's only Long John Silver's).
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Hopefully they
Install a sufficient number of bathroom stalls.
Still Waiting On.......
Hot Harry's to open on Melnea Cass Blvd.
Six years and counting........
Trivia
The food court of the disastrous and long forgotten Lafayette Place had a Taco Bell.
B.U. used to also have one too.
on Comm Ave west of Kenmore SQ on the inbound side.
Taco Bell
there used to be one on northeastern university's campus as well
I remember
First think that went through my mind was "no new", Lafayette Place had one in the 80s.
Lafayette Food Court
In the 80s I had an interesting experience at that food court in Lafayette Place. There was a pizza place there, I don't remember the name. They had pizza with eggplant on it. This was still early enough in the game of having things like eggplant on pizza that I commented on it. The blonde girl working there was a very down to earth sort and she said "yeah, I pulled that out of the garden this morning". I thought it was interesting that a fast food pizza place in a food court of a mall would have eggplant that had just been growing in a garden that very morning.
Is Sbarro the name your
Is Sbarro the name your thinking of?
Hyde Park had one as well
Now it's a Pizza Hut.
A semi correction
The Taco Bell was in the location at the same time as the Pizza Hut (along with a KFC, of course.)
Ah
I thought it was the Taco Bell and the KFC that co-existed; there's just so much local fast-food news my brain can hold (bad enough I still remember where the Arby's was - and when there were McDonald's across the street from each other on VFW Parkway).
Right
It was a full-fledged Kentacohut at one point. Then I think it was a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04
World class city.
World class city.
heh
Man, people are exciting about this... my tweet is being reshared again and again.
I've never seen people so happy for a Taco Bell.
You just never know
I suspect this will be the most visited UHub post of the week.
The other Taco Bell is at Cambridgeside Galleria
That's been there for years...and yes, I do remember the long-closed Lafayette Place, which was right across the street from the arcade that was there until the mid '90s - early 2000s before the complete renovation of the area.
Didn't Cambridge have 3 at 1
Didn't Cambridge have 3 at 1 point- the mall one and the TB/ KFC's in Inman and Porter?
I think so
They did have a KFC/TB at Prospect and Hampshire Streets - not sure about the Porter Square one (I don't visit Porter Square enough to know).
Walden & Mass Ave.?
If you mean the one on the corner of Walden St. & Mass Ave., it's been gone for years.
well
Well there were two...
Prospect is gone, became condos
Porter is gone but now a restaurant
I think Porter was just a KFC
I think Porter was just a KFC not a combo.
Could be worse
It could be a Chipotle. "Would you like cheese and guacamole with your norovirus?"
already nearby
There's already one at 101 Summer. Subway is at ~76 Summer.
We really are a world class city!
Our own norovirus distribution center in Downtown Crossing.
There's a few
There's a few... Summer St, School St, Seaport, State Transportation Building, and a few others....
Say, I was thinking about moving
Which major US cities don’t have Chipoltes downtown? Maybe St. Louis?
Yo quero
Taco Bell
Taco Bell
I don’t understand why another city like Chicago has 19 locations and Boston two. I would love one in my area of town. Food is tasty and inexpensive.
You mean...
...the "food" items like the seven-layer burrito, five layers of which are tortilla?
"Food" is "tasty" and "inexpensive", ok...
1 reason
Rent.
one more would have ruined American Legion Hwy
per the abutters...
Boston Fast Food Wish List
Boston Needs:
White Castle (The closest WC is a 4+ hour drive to the Bronx-unacceptable)
Big Boy
Del Taco
In and Out
Carl's Jr
Jack in the Box
Waffle House
Arby's
etc
I wish some entrepreneurial soul would put a White Castle in the space where the pretentious crunchy granola co-op is shutting down on the JP/Roslindale by the Forest Hills station. With the advent of legal pot, it's a golden opportunity. Boston sure as hell isn't any kind of "World Class City" as far as fast food is concerned.
Mmmm!, in and Out burgers....
Mmmm!, in and Out burgers....
White Castle
I've never had White Castle, but I hear they're very, very good. The one in the Bronx you're talking about is right off of the Bruckner Expressway, a mile or two before the RFK (Triboro) Bridge.
Red Lobster
To the haters, tell me where else to get endless shrimp for $15.99?
Shrimp
Just buy two pounds at Stop & Shop
Endless
They're only "endless" because your bottom falls out.
I was in Texas back in March
I was in Texas back in March and Whataburger is very good.
I wouldn't mind a Tim Horton
I wouldn't mind a Tim Horton's down here (I think there's still one in Portland). Although if Krispy Kreme couldn't break the Dunkin' donutopoly, Tim Horton's might not have a chance, either.
Tim Hortons in Portland is gone
There was a Tim Hortons right across from the Maine Mall in Portland, but that's gone. The remaining ones are here: Tim Hortons in Maine
My SIL comes from outside of Buffalo and she LOVES Tim Hortons. When we went there for their wedding, I never went there but my other SIL did, and she wasn't impressed with the coffee.
DEL TACO!
DEL TACO!
it was supposed to open all over NJ two years ago.. But dont hold your breath for in and out
Del Taco
Funny... in Lebanon NH, we had a Dell Taco in the early 1990s. it closed within a few years.
Jack in the Box
Oh my god. Yes. How do we make this happen?
Food poisoning?
I seem to recall Jack in the Box as the most frequently associated with mutant e. coli outbreaks. And you want this?
I think Jack has been here before
A long time ago when I was a kid, I lived in Halifax and I am pretty sure I remember there was a Jack-in-the-Box somewhere on the South Shore. It was one of the only fast food places with a drive-through at the time, and I remember the clown and box motif at the drive-through menu/ordering station.
Pembroke? Plympton? Carver? Middleborough? But I do know it would have been one of the only ones around.
I'm psyched! Finally great
I'm psyched! Finally great tasting food with an huge menu including breakfast that us poor people can afford!!! And it's filling! HURRY
Insert Facepalm Emoji
Insert Facepalm Emoji
The lack of not a single KFC
in DTX is disturbing. My God, London, Paris have evrry conceivable American fast food outlet in prime locations, not to mention domestic outlets. Some snooty Americans turn their nose up at places like KFC; not the English and French, they adore these places.
yep
KFC is VERY popular in middle eastern countries and India!
GM job description
Is that legal to require that someone be at last 21 years old?
I am more concerned that they
I am more concerned that they felt the need to say that, I presume their GMs must end up being 22.
I believe they can because a GM needs to be able to do anything in the restaurant and there are restrictions on people of different ages. Generally that is 18 years old but if you are 18 trying to be a GM how can you claim to have experience in operating those machines or working late nights?
I am not really sure what
I am not really sure what they serve at Taco Bell anymore. I live on the North side of the city so drive past one in Everett all the time and last time I checked in the menu was all over the place. Neon colored drinks, Dorito flavored shells. I thought I saw something stuffed with cheetos on the menu. It looked like the whole place had been raided by drunk high hipsters.... so it will fit in perfectly.
The new menu is kind of entertaining
There's all this neon-colored stoner/hacker grub (with copious amounts of Mountain Dew of course), and then there's the fresco style where you can get black beans instead of refried and fresh veggies and all this. Something for everyone!
stoners
I mean retail pot shops will open soon.. Maybe Taco Bell is backfilling our area now..
If I had the money...
...I'd open something like Insomnia Cookies near one, and serve Kenji's awesome brown butter chocolate chip cookies 24/7.