Colombian food

Changing times in a sleepy city: 24-hour Colombian takeout approved in East Boston

By - 1/10/19 - 4:36 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today gave the owner of La Chiva, 259 Bennington St., permission to serve up Colombian food to hungry people 24 hours a day. Read more.

The City that Always Sleeps could get 24-hour empanadas and pasteles

By - 1/9/19 - 10:29 am

La Chiva, a Colombian take-out place at 259 Bennington St. in East Boston that is already open until 3 a.m., is seeking permission to stay open 24 hours a day. Read more.

The food here is smashing

By - 6/18/17 - 7:49 pm
Crashed plane on roof of Napoles on Bennington Street in East Boston

Napoles, a Colombian restaurant and bar (with a lot of Italian items and a really nice pool table) on Bennington Street in East Boston, kept the "crashed" plane that was a hallmark of the Jimmy Maggs restaurant that preceded it.

Hyde Park's brief taste of Colombian food over for now

By - 4/7/17 - 4:05 pm
Ricolombia restaurant on River Street in Hyde Park
Opening soon

Ricolombia Restaurant, 1231 River St., where Salamander Cafe used to be, and where a succession of Haitian restaurants used to be, quietly closed this week, barely four months after it opened.

Today, the windows were festooned with signs advising that it would be opening soon under new ownership. Read more.