South Boston could get a Taco Bell

The Boston Licensing Board adjacent week hears a connection for a Taco Bell Cantina astatine 449 West Broadway successful Perkins Square - a agelong vacant spread betwixt 2 different buildings.

Taco Bell Cantina is an effort by the chain, agelong noted for its discount offerings, to vie with Chipotle, Qdoba and akin chains that diagnostic eating areas with art-like partition hangings. Don't worry, though: Other Taco Bell Cantinas diagnostic the aforesaid "Mexican inspired food" arsenic the much Taco Bells, specified arsenic the Crunchwrap Supreme.

Unlike the existing fancy-shmancy Taco Bell Cantina connected Comm. Ave. adjacent BU, however, the projected South Boston determination would not service alcohol, astatine slightest not initially - its franchisee is seeking lone a food-serving licence for what would beryllium a 14-seat restaurant. It is seeking a closing clip of 2 a.m., which would springiness galore patrons of adjacent bars a changeable astatine getting a taco-ish nutrient point for the thrust oregon locomotion home.

The licensing board's hearings statesman astatine 10 a.m. connected Wednesday.

Via Boston Restaurant Talk.