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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 21, 2002
Pros: Inexpensive area to try out Japanese culture, free parking in Cambridge!
Cons: none
Summary: Tucked away in a mall in Porter Square is a small taste of Japan. The mall, otherwise known as the Exchange Building, contains about 7 small Japanese food stalls serving traditional Japanese foods (udon soup, sushi and other tasty bites), a sit-down ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 16, 2001
Pros: lots to do
Cons: none in my mind
Summary: Those of you who have read my other epinions know that I have lived in a lot of different places. Well, Boston is yet another place I found myself for a period of time in my life. I lived outside of Boston for a year in Somerville, and I spent most of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 22, 2000
Pros: Plenty to do for every member of the family
Cons: New England winter weather
Summary:
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions
On your next family visit to Boston, plan on spending a full day in Cambridge. You won't be disappointed!
Start your day with an excursion to the Peabody ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 23, 2000
Pros: It is elegant, beautiful, and real
Cons: You cannot force it
Summary:
Review Topic: Sights & AttractionsOne of the things I never got to do while in college was to learn about the arts. I never had any formal training in appreciating the finer points. I can barely tell apart Vivaldi from ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 23, 2000
Pros: lots of selection, great people working there
Cons: can get a bit overwhelming
Summary: In a little dark building with a big pink stripe painted on it lies this lovely treasure. Vintage clothing. Costumes. Manic Panic. Sunglasses that Elton John would die for. All these and more, at the Garment District.
While in Boston, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 13, 2000
Pros: lots to do, fine food, lively atmosphere
Cons: parking can be impossible to find
Summary: I've been to visit many cities in my time and the one that sticks out the most as my favorite is Boston. The part in this city which I center my attention is Cambridge. It has everything. The area in Cambridge which I find most enjoyable is Harvard ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 27, 2000
Pros: Powerful and moving experience
Cons: Three hours long may be a little too much for some.
Summary: "And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away."
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2000
Pros: Eclectic home to Harvard University; a lot of fun
Cons: PARKING
Summary: Review Topic: Sights & AttractionsHarvard Square is the home of Harvard University, the #1 University in the country. Harvard Square is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA also home to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
This ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 3, 2000
Pros: All around nice
Cons: Parking can be hell
Summary: I lived in Somerville for a year while I went to grad school. My brother made me live there because it was close to Tufts University, but I'm glad I did. I lived out by Davis square, almost in Arlington.
Somerville was a great place to live. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 9, 1999
Pros: Unusual tourist destination
Cons: Unusual tourist destination
Summary: Cambridge is home to at least two real-life Willy Wonka Chocolate Factories.
Start at the Green Line Lechmere stop and visit the Haviland Candy Shoppe. This store features discount items from the candy factory upstairs, which belches out ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 1999
Pros: A university town with all the fixings
Cons: They have snow here, and the bars still close early
Summary: As I mellow into aging, frumpy housewifedom, I find that my interests in travelling, touring, and an evening’s entertainment have changed a bit. What I mainly remember about Cambridge in my late teens was that the bars closed too early, and I wondered ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 1, 1999
Pros: Beautiful garden of flowers and stone. A beautiful enclave Emersonian in its possibility for contemplation.
Cons: It is a graveyard, which might turn some people off.
Summary: Say this for Boston's brahmins -- although they spent much of their lives bound up in a self-imposed status war against the Old World, they sure knew how to go out in style. Indeed, the Bostonian upper classes' love-hate competition with their mother ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 26, 1999
Pros: cheap and hip
Cons: not exactly on Boston Common
Summary: One subway stop (a twenty-minute walk) past Cambridge's Harvard Square lies Somerville, home to thousands of resourceful graduate students, a hardy working-class immigrant population, and a eclectic collection of artists, coexisting in an easily ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 21, 1999
Pros: perfect gourmet thin-crusted pieces with a great selection of toppings.
Cons: have to like thin-crusted pizza - very small place
Summary: So ypur in the mood for a little pizza, but your bored with the typical Domino's or local pizza place... why don't you try Emma's Pizza? Emma's Pizza is a little, and I do mean little, place sitting in Cambridge, ready to serve up the best gourmet pizza ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 20, 1999
Pros: greek restaurant that is a couple of stpes above the typical gyro joint
Cons: no major cons - we go to the Greek Corner at least once a week for dinner
Summary: The Greek Corner is a great little restaurant located in Cambridge, at 2366 Mass Avenue. I know what you're thinking... there are hundred of great little Greek places around, what make this one so great. Well... I'll tell you.
First off, the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 14, 1999
Pros: its better than the Fresh Pond McDonalds
Cons: not great but it is 100 times better than the Fresh Pond McDonalds
Summary: Maybe this is beating a dead horse, but the Fresh pond McDonalds is the absolute worst McDonalds I have ever encountered. In comparison, the fresh pond Burger King in incredible. However, compared to other Burger King's in the area, it too is severly ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 7, 1999
Pros: what can you expect for cheap fast food
Cons: this is the worst McDonalds I have ever been to
Summary: Living near Fresh Pond in Cambrdige, MA, I have had the oppurtunity to stop in at the Fresh Pond McDonalds several times. Based on 10-15 trips over the past year, I can honestly say that this is the worst McDonalds in Massachussetts. To prove my point, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 16, 1999
Pros: good vibe, plenty to do, friendly people
Cons: expensive to live there
Summary: I have always loved Boston but have never spent any time in Cambridge until this summer ('99). WOW! I felt right at home. The population is mostly people affiliated with colleges so it is a very diverse crowd in terms of different cultures. There is ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 16, 1999
Pros: Things to do
Cons: Sometimes a little too busy, Too many cars
Summary: First of all, my husband travels alot for business. I frequently go with him when he's going to an interesting place. I never was as pleased to find what Cambridge had to do for the wife that was alone all day---usually stuck in the hotel because she ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Feb 24, 2006
Pros: Finagle a Bagel
Cons: More walking, a bit harder to get around than Boston.
Summary: I recently spent a week in Cambridge and Boston. Our hotel was the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. It was a little out of the way, but we had a great room. If you go to Cambridge.... eat at Finagle a Bagel in Harvard Square! One morning we had
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