1. Crema Cafe
27 Brattle St (at Mt. Auburn St.), Cambridge, MA
Café · Harvard Square · 283 tips and reviews
Caroline Harvey: The sweet potato sandwich is amazing- green apple, sprouts, avocado, & sweet potato on wheat bread. Om nom!!
David Wolski: Very good breakfast sandwiches! Egg sandwich with toppings on english muffin with toppings of choice or lox bagel are great.
Peter Boyce: Most lavish way to study in the Square-- grab a Golden Crema & try the Bacon-Turkey-Avocado sandwich with jicama slaw.
2. Cuchi Cuchi
795 Main St (at Windsor St.), Cambridge, MA
Lounge · 77 tips and reviews
Kat 🐱: Love this place! Super friendly service. The Scallops Provençale is delicious! Fried Artichoke Hearts is good but more cheesy than expected. Try make a reservation in advance so you can get a table!
Bravo: Wacky atmosphere and fabulous cocktails. A great place for girls night out. -Tania Peterson, Top Chef Just Desserts
Eric Patey: Great classic cocktails. Funky roaring 20's ambience. Fun tasting menu.
3. The Mad Monkfish
8.4
524 Massachusetts Ave (btwn Brookline & Pearl St), Cambridge, MA
Sushi Restaurant · 76 tips and reviews
Mariana R. M.: Although everything I have tried at Monkfish tastes unreal, the chicken and shrimp pad thai is my favorite and definitely the best one I have ever tried.
Austra Zubkovs: The cranberry crab rangoon is unreal.
CBS Local: Good: Papaya Salad. Better: Tori Katsu with Basil Leaf. Best: Personable waitstaff and whimsical atmosphere. - Rachel Leah Blumenthal, CBS Boston Read more.
5. Park
59 JFK St (at Eliot St.), Cambridge, MA
Gastropub · Harvard Square · 94 tips and reviews
K Kagetsu: Amazing scallops dish with brussel sprouts, pork, and smoked tomato polenta. Also liked the eagle rare bourbon.
Adam Besvinick: Fairly certain their music selection is just Sean Parker's "Hipster International" playlist on Spotify.
Nabeel Hyatt: Wifi password is 59jfkfood
6. Area Four
8.9
500 Technology Sq, Cambridge, MA
Pizzeria · Kendall Square · 209 tips and reviews
Carrie Bevis: The breakfast sandwich, served between two fluffy, house made rolls, was the bomb! Great fire groups!
Boston.com: Two restaurants in one, both tailor-made for Tech Square: an all-day bakery-cafe attached to a sparse, industrial dining room with two wood-fired ovens. Read more.
Bryan Yeager: It smells like a campfire, even when you sit outside. Great for Forrester-watching.
7. Dosa Factory
571 Massachusetts Ave (at Pearl St.), Cambridge, MA
Indian Restaurant · 32 tips and reviews
Julianne G: Bring a friend with daring tastes. Order a paper masala dosa and a samosa chaat. Save room for a rose falooda and Indian sweets. You up for it? :)
Juli: Run by the nicest man in Cambridge. Order a bunch of stuff and he may demand you try something else on the house.
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley: great low-end Indian hidden in the back of the Shalimar grocery, in the heart of Central.
8. Dante
40 Edwin H Land Blvd (Royal Sonesta Hotel), Cambridge, MA
American Restaurant · East Cambridge · 39 tips and reviews
AskMen: High-end Italian comfort dishes like a taglietelle of rabbit cacciatore with pioppini mushrooms & green olives; or a veal porterhouse, with a parmigiano crust, mustard greens, & honey. Read more.
Boston Magazine: When you finish dinner, you won’t want to return to that neon-lit madness outside. But leave you must. Otherwise, how can you come back? Read more.
vsync: Some pretty cool in-house infusions: pumpkin whiskey and apple tequila