{"id":270881,"date":"2026-08-23T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:22:08","slug":"philadelphia-taqueria-responds-after-driver-crashes-into-restaurant-sorry-we-dont-have-a-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270881\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia taqueria responds after driver crashes into restaurant: &#8220;Sorry we don&#8217;t have a drive-thru&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Philadelphia taqueria is already back open after a driver crashed through the front of the restaurant early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Before 3 a.m., the La Catrachita location on 1600 S. Columbus Boulevard suffered serious damage after an SUV smashed through the front window and door.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/la-catrachita-food.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"la-catrachita-food.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A temporary front door and facade were erected at La Catrachita taqueria in South Philadelphia after a car crashed into the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>                La Catrachita<\/p>\n<p>The owner, Carlos Gomez, tells us in an Instagram message that thankfully, nobody was hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash didn&#8217;t keep the restaurant from opening for business. Gomez&#8217;s father-in-law built a temporary front window and door to the building, and the shop is already back to serving food.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, they lightened things up with a bit of humor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry we don&#8217;t have a drive-thru yet,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcWg5Bejcym\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they posted on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if the driver, who has not been identified, will face any charges in connection to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to police for more information and we&#8217;re waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Philadelphia taqueria is already back open after a driver crashed through the front of the restaurant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-270881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}