A new spot for soul food has come to a Boston neighborhood.
According to a poster within the Friends of Boston's Hidden Restaurants Facebook group page, Soul on Shawmut is now open in Roxbury, moving into a space just west of Melnea Cass Boulevard on Shawmut Avenue. The menu for the new restaurant shows such options as burgers, steak and cheese subs, a chopped cheese sandwich, wings, fried chicken, rice and beans, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, yams, Detroit pizza, buffalo chicken eggrolls, collard green gumbo, and more.
The address for Soul on Shawmut is 722a Shawmut Ave, Roxbury, MA, 02119. Its website can be found at https://www.soulonshawmut.com/ while its Instagram page is at https://www.instagram.com/soulonshawmut/
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