billharnois ([info]billharnois) wrote in [info]davis_square,
2007-02-22 09:57:00
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Taco Bell / KFC ??

Does anyone know what happened to the Taco Bell / KFC on Mass Ave? It's all boarded up. It was a pretty gross place, but the only close TBell around.
Tags: burritos, closed businesses, local businesses, restaurants

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[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:01:08 UTC 5 years ago

I got this e-mail from the Porter Square Neighbors list a few days ago. I'd been thinking of posting it somewhere on LJ, so I guess this is the place.

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From Craig Kelley

Folks:

Some of you have asked me what is going on with the KFC at the junction of
Mass Ave and Walden Street. I talked with the owner the other day, and this
is what he told me:

Roughly 33-40% of that site's business used to come in off of Walden Street,
and with the bridge closed the owner had trouble keeping it open, especially
since the closure is forecasted to last until late in 2008. He has a
long-term lease on the property and had recently put money into renovating
the restaurant. He may be able to put another use there. In addition to
this KFC, he has about a dozen more sites, including the one on Hampshire
Street, and it is not clear how much the business from the North Cambridge
KFC will switch over to his other sites.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this or any other issue.

Thanks.

Craig Kelley
Cambridge City Council
6 St. Gerard Terrace
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-354-8353 (home)
617-349-4280 (Council office)

[info]dan4th

February 22 2007, 15:02:42 UTC 5 years ago

I suspected that was the case. Can you tell me how to get on that list?

[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:08:00 UTC 5 years ago

Sure - go to http://rb.enter.net/mailman/listinfo/psna

[info]closetalker11

February 22 2007, 15:47:10 UTC 5 years ago

Porter LJ

Though a lot of the people there are here as well, you could post this on the community.livejournal.com/porter_square community.

[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:54:43 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Porter LJ

Good idea, done.

[info]dan4th

February 22 2007, 15:01:49 UTC 5 years ago

It closed a couple of weeks ago. The sign on the door doesn't say why, but just gives the location of the next two closest locations, which are both pretty out of the way.

My occasional popcorn chicken craving is going unheeded.

[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:02:17 UTC 5 years ago

but why would you want a Taco Bell when there are so many other Mexican places scattered between Teele, Davis, Ball, and Union squares?

[info]dan4th

February 22 2007, 15:03:31 UTC 5 years ago

because a real burrito and a Taco Bell "Grilled Stufft Burrito" are entirely different food items. Sometimes I just crave junk food.

[info]lizzyclean

February 22 2007, 15:09:47 UTC 5 years ago

Hmmmm, "mexican"

Yeah, about every six months or so I'd want to go back to my high school ways and get some of that tasty/awful Taco Bell goodness/bad-for-you-ness. Alas, we shall have to go without. At least in Porter Square.

[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:11:58 UTC 5 years ago

Then you may as well check out this today. It's just a couple blocks from the former Taco Bell.

[info]dan4th

5 years ago

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[info]dani_namaste

February 22 2007, 15:23:39 UTC 5 years ago

seconded. The Grilled Stufft Burrito rocks my world (as does the Nachos Bell Grande), although if the Porter Square store is run by the same people as the Hampshire Street location, I doubt the food would have been any good. I haven't found Taco Bell yet that's close to how good it is in RI. I've been hitting Qdoba for my occasional nachos fix.

[info]denonymous

5 years ago

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[info]seaweedgirle

February 22 2007, 16:43:47 UTC 5 years ago

And the price is right.

[info]billharnois

February 22 2007, 15:09:44 UTC 5 years ago

Normally I don't do TBell. I'll get TBell maybe once or twice a year. If I want that type of food (which is often) I'll usually get Taco's Lupita or Anna's. I haven't been to this TBell in over a year. That explains why it was gross/dirty, because it was probably before the renovations.

[info]clevernonsense

February 22 2007, 16:27:50 UTC 5 years ago

the other places don't have that special "staph seasoning" that only taco bell knows :)

[info]vanguardcdk

February 22 2007, 15:14:49 UTC 5 years ago

Aw mann..I used to go there fairly often (and always afterwards my stomach would plead with me to stop torturing it...). I liked being able to get my combo tacos and chicken strips.

Oh well..guess I'll just have to get my Taco Bell awful-ness at the Galleria.

[info]eclecticavatar

February 22 2007, 15:50:36 UTC 5 years ago

The Hampshire street location isn't that far of a walk, in reality. Though it's closer to Central than Porter or Davis, when you get down to it.

[info]vanguardcdk

5 years ago

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[info]ron_newman

5 years ago

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[info]cook_ting

February 22 2007, 15:28:08 UTC 5 years ago

I've had a terrible craving for KFC and now it will go unfilled. Who has good fried chicken in Davis?

[info]secretlyironic

February 22 2007, 15:30:40 UTC 5 years ago

Redbones does fried chicken and chicken-fried steak.

[info]cook_ting

February 22 2007, 16:25:58 UTC 5 years ago

Oh? Well that sounds like a challenge my stomach is willing to accept.

[info]readsalot

February 22 2007, 17:25:30 UTC 5 years ago

Are those new? When I look at their menu I see fried fish and seafood, but no fried chicken or steak.

[info]secretlyironic

5 years ago

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[info]ron_newman

February 22 2007, 15:37:49 UTC 5 years ago

if you really need it, there's a Taco Bell / KFC on Broadway in East Somerville, near Foss Park.

[info]sugersh

February 22 2007, 15:56:20 UTC 5 years ago

I'd been wondering about that. Now where will I get my greasy-batter-coated potato wedges?

Life is so damned hard.

[info]lonelyholiday

February 22 2007, 18:25:38 UTC 5 years ago

Oh man, just on Tuesday a friend said she was craving KFC and I told her, "Well, there's one over near Central... No, wait, I always forget that one on Mass Ave!" Looks like I wasn't the only one. Sorry, KFC, I failed you.

[info]aki

February 23 2007, 14:56:03 UTC 5 years ago

As a reminder, since no one seems to have mentioned it, there's a Taco Belin the Cambridgeside Galleria as well.

[info]ron_newman

February 23 2007, 18:20:45 UTC 5 years ago

Taco Bell rats are stars for a day
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