The place will late night time meals vans be open in Boston this summer time?

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Mayor Michelle Wu announced the schedules and locations of 10 food trucks participating in a new late night initiative.

Mayor Michelle Wu announced the participants and the schedule of Boston’s new late night food truck program Monday. The move, Wu said, is meant to both energize the city’s nightlife and support those working overnight shifts. 

The program itself was unveiled earlier this month. The administration designated seven areas across the city for these late night food trucks to operate in. The areas are purposefully located near music venues, hospitals, universities, and nightlife districts. Food trucks will operate until as late as 3 a.m. multiple times per week at these spots throughout the summer and fall. 

The city hosted a lottery for interested operators to allow them to select their preferred locations. There are 10 participating food trucks: Augusta’s Chicken on the Road, Boss Town, Cool Shade, Cousins Maine Lobster, El Dugout, Extreme Flavor, HYT, Los Muchachos, Murl’s Kitchen, and Sunset Cantina. 

Shantae Romain, the operations director of Murl’s Kitchen, said that her Jamaican food business was on the path towards getting a food truck up and running when this opportunity came about. It happened at the perfect time, and will help Romain open another brick and mortar location in Dorchester next year, she said at a press conference alongside Wu Monday morning. 

“As a small, Black-owned, Caribbean-owned business, to grow in this way and to see our dreams realized, to see the matriarch of our family’s dreams realized, just deeply means so much to us,” Romain said. 

At the press conference, Wu showed a flyer she helped design for a “food truck challenge” in 2011. It was one of the first projects she worked on as a City Hall staffer under former Mayor Thomas Menino. The success of that initial event was immediately apparent, and helped pave the way for this week’s announcement, she said. 

“When the lines for that taste test were all the way wrapping around the block, we knew that there was something here,” Wu said. 

Some of the early participants back in 2011, like Bon Me and Clover, used the food truck program to expand their businesses and open multiple brick and mortar locations. 

“We’ve seen time and again that food trucks can be a launching pad for long-term success. Many of today’s beloved brick-and-mortar restaurants started with a truck,” Melissa Castro, director of tenant relations and partnerships for real estate advisory and investment firm Graffito SP, said in a statement. 

The locations and the schedules of the participating food trucks can be found in the interactive map below: