The 10 Best Restaurants In Cambridge, Massachusetts

Don’t count on walking in on restaurant Bondir and getting a seat — there’s enough room for only 26 people. Jason Bond is the master chef behind the simple but flavorful dishes you can try here. Smoked ricotta, oat-crusted fluke and basil buttermilk panna cotta are some of the delicacies recently featured on Bondir’s menu, which is subject to constant change to accommodate the freshest, seasonal ingredients available. The venue is quite small but exquisitely decorated in a rustic style, with cotto tiling floors, green-painted wood boiseries and a brick oven right in the front of the dining room.

Area Four

It happens only so rarely that a basic staple like pizza leaves you swooning in the throes of culinary ecstasy, but that’s just what Area Four‘s pizza does for you. Twelve year-old starter dough fermented for 30 hours, top ingredients like hand-pulled mozzarella, wood-fire ovens and a cooking technique inspired by the Neapolitan masters are the winning tricks up Area Four’s sleeve to bake up some of the most delicious, crispy pizza in Cambridge, and perhaps all of the Boston area. Choose a no-frills margherita or marinara, or fancier options like mushroom and fontina or caramelized onion and gorgonzola. Not in Cambridge? Not all hope is lost – Area Four’s truck is always on the road bringing delicious flatbreads and sandwiches around.

Area Four, 500 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, USA, +1 617 758 4444

Michael Scelfo, the executive chef at recently opened restaurant Alden & Harlow, envisages food as a medium to connect with those you love and care for. That’s why he tailored the dining experience at Alden & Harlow to recreate the atmosphere he enjoys with his family around his home kitchen table. In Scelfo’s restaurant, guests will taste honest, American fare, full of flavor and cooked to perfection with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Accordingly to the chef’s philosophy, the large dining room is simply decorated to encourage conviviality and leave center stage to the food and the conversation, but it doesn’t lack charming details like the lush leather chairs.

Cambridge’s Commonwealth is a one-of-a-kind restaurant in several ways. First off, the establishment hosts a market-cum-cafe selling seasonal produce alongside a range of sandwiches and salads that you can feast on at your leisure. Secondly, Commonwealth sports an eccentric farm-inspired design; you will be impressed at how much the dining rooms, encapsulated in structures of wood boards and complemented by salvaged tables, look like the interior of a stable. In this unusual, fun setting, guests are served uncomplicated American fare with occasional forays into international cuisines and extensive utilization of local seafood.