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Finally, that Middle Eastern/Mexican fusion you've been hankering for

By adamg on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 12:59pm

Falafel King on Tremont Street downtown will soon be sharing space with Taccos Arabas, which will offer such dishes as shawarma tacos, Boston Restaurant Talk reports.

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Dining
Free tagging: 
Mexican food
Middle Eastern food
Tremont Street
Downtown Crossing


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Comments

By Gary C on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:14pm.

Whoever suggested this idea is a very, very bad man.

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:16pm.

Throw in some Soul Food and you have the culinary equivalent of Dick Dale surf music.

By Ian on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:33pm.

Taco arabes are popular in Puebla; I'm excited to try these.

http://www.puebla-mexico.com/tag/taco-arabe/

By Allstonian on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 2:07pm.

Tacos al pastor are more or less the descendant of tacos arabes. Angela's Cafe in East Boston (which has a definite focus on Pueblan cuisine, since that's where Angela is from) offers both.

By thomas on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 4:33pm.

Lebanese represent

By Bob Leponge on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:34pm.

If you think about the history of trade and migration, Middle East cuisine and Mexican cuisine are already complex fusion cuisines. Mexican cuisine already has Arab ancestry (spices came across North Africa to the Moors, who controlled Spain during the period running up to Spain’s expansion into the New World...

By fungwah on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 2:10pm.

Pretty sure unless you're an ultra-isolated group living entirely off the land, your cuisine probably includes a whole bunch of stuff that didn't originate in the area you're from.

By Bob Leponge on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 4:56pm.

The history of human migration, discovery, trade, and conquest is pretty much on your dinner plate every time you eat.

By Nobody on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 3:04pm.

El Triunfo has had a Falafel Burrito for at least a decade.

By Deepfreeze on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 3:46pm.

And Nachlo is a purpose-built restaurant just for this cuisine.

By eekanotloggedin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 9:22am.

Great place

By EC on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 4:10pm.

Was just going to make the same comment, basically! I walk by there everyday. Ali Baba is great; haven’t tried El Triunfo.

By nino nitti on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 8:06pm.

Nachlo a Parkistani-Mexican place recently opened on Tremont about a block up from the Roxbury Crossing T stop

By SC from JP on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 9:45am.

I hope the tacos are up to snuff, because IMO Falafel King is some of the best falafel in the city...

By Ishmael Jones on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:12am.

Love Falafel King, if I forget to bring a lunch I usually go there. I like the experience of chomping on a falafel held in one hand, while paying for the sandwich with the other.

By Heather on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:42pm.

Falafel king is MY king.