Somali food

Somali place in East Boston closing down, but hopes to re-open somewhere else

By adamg - 12/29/23 - 12:09 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tawakal Halal Cafe on Maverick Street in East Boston's Jeffries Point, is closing next week.

Somebody took the time to move a halal restaurant's trash to its roof in East Boston - and a prayer rug

By adamg - 6/17/21 - 1:04 pm

Yahya Noor, owner of Tawakal Halal Cafe, 389 Maverick St. in East Boston's Jeffreys Point neighborhood, reports that sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, when the restaurant closed up, and Monday morning, somebody emptied its three trash bins and hefted all the trash to the roof - and then left a prayer rug next to the trash.

East Boston restaurant seeks advice on doing meatless Mondays

By adamg - 11/22/20 - 1:50 pm

Yahya Noor, owner of Tawakal Halal Cafe, which serves Somali food in East Boston's Jeffries Point Tuesday through Sunday, is thinking of adding a menu that would be just vegetarian on Mondays and is seeking advice to go along the East Indian spices that would go on the dishes.

Feel like some Syrian food tonight?

By adamg - 1/28/17 - 5:47 pm

In Marc Hurwitz's Friends of Boston Hidden Restaurants Facebook group, Bobby O'Neill asked this afternoon:

I feel like restaurants and shops owned by members of the Iraqi, Iranian, Sudanese, Yemeni, Libyan, Somali, and Syrian communities could use our support. Any recommendations?

Here's the list folks have come up with so far (additions welcome, of course): Read more.

Yes, you can get Somali food in Boston

By adamg - 4/27/11 - 12:42 pm

UPDATE: Closed.

Lisa Johnson gives a thumb's up to Tawakal Cuisine on Bennington Street in East Boston:

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