Memories of Border Cafe come flooding in as word spreads that it has closed for good
âThe whole notion of them being gone is disorienting,â mourns one Cambridge regular. So many others seem to feel the same.
By Kara Baskin and Janelle Nanos Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated February 11, 2021, 6:41 p.m.
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Firefighters responded to a fire at the Border Cafe in Cambridge on Dec. 1. 2019. That fire was the start of the restaurant's troubles. Then COVID hit.Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
When the news broke on Wednesday that the Border Cafe in Harvard Square would not reopen due to the pandemic, we felt weâd both been sucker-punched. The Tex-Mex joint, whose lines always snaked out into the street, had closed in 2019 after a fire. Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, confirmed the shutdown on Thursday.