Fire closed this familiar Boise restaurant, the chain’s first in Idaho. Here’s good news

Customers who rolled up to the longtime Del Taco near Boise State were greeted with locked doors starting in late January.

But here’s good news for February: The restaurant reopened Monday, Feb. 3, in time for lunch.

Indicating that the closure became effective Jan. 25, notes in windows at Del Taco, 1306 S. Broadway Ave., had explained the closure was “temporary” and “until further notice.”

So what was the deal?

“We had a fire,” general manager Josh Deshazo said. “We were just lucky that we had good people that could get things fixed in a pretty fast amount of time.”

Even though it only shuttered for just over a week, Boiseans undoubtedly missed the familiar fast-food destination. Idaho Statesman archives track the store as far back as 2006, when it was featured in a taste-test article.

Deshazo said he didn’t know what year that store opened.

But decades ago sounds right, he agreed.

“We were the very first Del Taco opened in Idaho,” he said.

Del Taco’s winter hours at the location are 7 a.m to 2 a.m. seven days a week.

Michael Deeds

Idaho Statesman

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Michael Deeds is a long-serving entertainment reporter and opinion columnist at the Idaho Statesman, where he chronicles the Boise good life: restaurants, concerts, culture, cool stuff. He started as a summer intern after graduating from the University of Nebraska with a news-editorial journalism degree. Deeds’ prior Statesman roles have included sportswriter, music critic and features editor. His other writing has ranged from freelancing album reviews for The Washington Post to bragging about Boise in that inflight magazine you left on the plane.