The Dream of a Taco Bell Cantina in DC Will Have to Wait—Again
When is the Columbia Heights location EVER going to open?
Taco Bell Cantina's long-awaited Columbia Heights location. Photograph by Daniella Byck.
Surely it would be one of the spring’s biggest restaurant openings. Taco Bell Cantina was coming to Columbia Heights, and the Twitter buzz was huge. Though the Mexican chain has other outposts around DC, this was the first Cantina, meaning you could get a boozy Baja Blast along with your Doritos Locos Tacos.
But when a team of
Washingtonian reporters showed up at 11 AM—the reported opening time—there was nary a Chalupa lover in sight. Shortly after, someone else arrived at the scene. Turns out she was a reporter for DCist. Slowly, though, the Taco Bell faithful rolled up.