Where will late night food trucks be open in Boston this summer?

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Mayor Michelle Wu introduced the schedules and places of 10 meals vehicles collaborating in a brand new late night time initiative.

Mayor Michelle Wu introduced the individuals and the schedule of Boston’s new late night food truck program Monday. The transfer, Wu mentioned, is supposed to each energize town’s nightlife and help these working in a single day shifts. 

This system itself was unveiled earlier this month. The administration designated seven areas throughout town for these late night time meals vehicles to function in. The areas are purposefully situated close to music venues, hospitals, universities, and nightlife districts. Meals vehicles will function till as late as 3 a.m. a number of occasions per week at these spots all through the summer time and fall. 

Town hosted a lottery for operators to permit them to pick their most well-liked places. There are 10 collaborating meals vehicles: Augusta’s Rooster on the Highway, Boss City, Cool Shade, Cousins Maine Lobster, El Dugout, Excessive Taste, HYT, Los Muchachos, Murl’s Kitchen, and Sundown Cantina. 

Shantae Romain, the operations director of Murl’s Kitchen, mentioned that her Jamaican meals enterprise was on the trail in the direction of getting a meals truck up and operating when this chance happened. It occurred on the excellent time, and can assist Romain open one other brick and mortar location in Dorchester subsequent yr, she mentioned at a press convention alongside Wu Monday morning. 

“As a small, Black-owned, Caribbean-owned enterprise, to develop on this means and to see our desires realized, to see the matriarch of our household’s desires realized, simply deeply means a lot to us,” Romain mentioned. 

On the press convention, Wu confirmed a flyer she helped design for a “meals truck problem” in 2011. It was one of many first initiatives she labored on as a Metropolis Corridor staffer below former Mayor Thomas Menino. The success of that preliminary occasion was instantly obvious, and helped pave the best way for this week’s announcement, she mentioned. 

“When the traces for that style check have been all the best way wrapping across the block, we knew that there was one thing right here,” Wu mentioned. 

A few of the early individuals again in 2011, like Bon Me and Clover, used the meals truck program to develop their companies and open a number of brick and mortar places. 

“We’ve seen again and again that meals vehicles could be a launching pad for long-term success. A lot of in the present day’s beloved brick-and-mortar eating places began with a truck,” Melissa Castro, director of tenant relations and partnerships for actual property advisory and funding agency Graffito SP, mentioned in a press release. 

The places and the schedules of the collaborating meals vehicles might be discovered within the interactive map beneath: