Harvard Square: Tasty & Inexpensive
- Border Café: fantastically inexpensive Mexican food – enjoy free chips and salsa, huge sodas, and a plentiful meal for $10 at 32 Church St. in Harvard Square.
- Charlie’s Kitchen: cheap, greasy burger joint — try the double cheeseburger, 10 Eliot St.
- Clover: locally sourced vegetarian food, menu changes based on local produce; 1326 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
- Crazy Dough’s: also in the Garage. Two pieces of pizza and a soda for $4.50.
- Darwin’s Ltd: fantastic sandwich and coffee spot, 148 Mt. Auburn St. or 1629 Cambridge St.
- Felipe’s: great burritos on the corner of Brattle.
- Grendel’s Den: a Harvard Square tradition, has a daily “happy hour” from 5-7 pm when all dishes are half price if you buy a drink.
- Mr. Bartley’s Gourmet Burgers: famous hamburger joint, known as the best burgers in Boston, at 1246 Massachusetts Ave. (between Harvard and Central Sqs.)
- Pinnochio’s Pizza: regarded as the best Sicilian style pizza in Boston/Cambridge, 74 Winthrop St.
- Shake Shack: delicious fast food burgers, claimed to be better than Five Guys located in Harvard Sq, 92 Winthrop St, Cambridge
- Wagamama: the Asian infusion restaurant from the UK has just made its way over to the States, 57 JFK St.
Boston’s Top Restaurants
- Café Sushi: voted Boston’s best sushi; reasonably priced delicious sushi located just outside Harvard Square, 1105 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
- Island Creek Oyster Bar: an expensive classic where oysters are as fresh as they get ; 500 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
- Sweet Cheeks: fall-apart ribs, crackly-skinned sausages, and mammoth slabs of brisket are sourced from the highest-quality purveyors; 1381 Boylston St., Boston
- Stephanie’s on Newbury; a classic Boston restaurant, best known for their brunches and Bloody Mary’s; 190 Newbury St, Boston
- Puritan & Co: oozes New England with beautiful dishes like Moxie-glazed lamb belly or perfectly seared scallops or swordfish pastrami; 1166 Cambridge St. Cambridge
- Toro: Toro serves modern and traditional tapas ranging from simple grilled corn to elaborate dishes pairing seafood; 1704 Washington St, Boston
- Cafeteria Boston: a moderately priced restaurant on Newbury St that has something everyone will like on the enu
Grocery Stores
Useful information about grocery stores throughout Cambridge athttp://www.ksg.harvard.edu/newcomersguide/groceries.htm
Trader Joe’s, 617-491-8582, 748 Memorial Drive
Market Basket, 400 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, 617-666-2420
Whole Foods: has three Cambridge locationsr
