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BURRITOS AND TACOS TO GO!
Pity the poor straphanger trying to grab a quick meal at Back Bay Station. If you don’t get a sugary sinker at Dunkin’ Donuts or convenience store junk food, you might have to face the grim offerings of Amtrak’s dining car. Luckily, the enthusiastically named Burritos and Tacos To Go!, a small stand just inside the station’s Dartmouth Street entrance, gives travelers a reasonably healthy and much tastier Mexican alternative. The menu offers only tacos, burritos, and grande burritos filled with chicken, steak, carnitas (pork), vegetables, or rice and beans.
The taco ($2.25) stuffs a meat or vegetable filling, lettuce, and salsa rojo into the canonical foundation of two corn tortillas. The flour tortilla burrito ($3.75) is equally simple — just filling, lettuce, and hot sauce. The grande version ($4.75) is more typical of what Americans expect in a burrito: a monster stuffed with filling, lettuce, hot sauce, shredded cheese, rice, and beans (your choice of black beans or pintos). Optional sides and extras include pretty respectable guacamole ($0.75), sour cream ($0.55), cheese ($0.55), and extra meat ($1.25). The chefs take some shortcuts, and in general, the meats are less greasy than is perfectly authentic, but given the overall speed, convenience, and flavor, hungry commuters shouldn’t complain.
Approximate address: Inside Back Bay Station, 145 Dartmouth Street, Boston
Hours: Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Nearby landmark: Amtrak ticket window
