Concord Avenue Cafe

1. Maybe my favorite lunch spot in Cambridge! Such amazing and welcoming service, they have a great patio for summertime. Food is delicious; I got a bento box with pork and a taro milk tea. Everything I could want!

2. Adorable little café with indoor and outdoor seating behind the café. There is a limited amount of parking out front and they close around 6:30 so the parking ends around the time that they close. The store is fully accessible, they have a wide variety of looseleaf tea as well as Stash bagged tea. I got the Genmai cha.

   I did one of the Bento boxes with pulled pork, tea eggs, edamame, rice, and veggies. It is absolutely delicious but definitely a little pricey. It was $19 for my tea and my food. But I do love the cafe and the people are super kind.

   There is also a lot of knitting work that is for sale. Somebody there makes scarves and hats and such.

   I really appreciate that they have notes all over the store and on the front door and on there to go bags reminding customers that they are going to be closed from August 26 until September 9. I really appreciate it when a business does right by their customers and make sure that they know That the place is open or closed. Thank you!

3. You can’t not smile when you go into this spot and you’re certainly smiling once you leave! The service is fantastic, so warm and welcoming and the food is delicious! I sat on the lovely patio and had my mango bubble tea and their taiwanese bento box with Chinese sausage, which was all AMAZING. It’s so rare to find spots that serve Chinese sausage and it was perfection. You can tell everything is made fresh to order and that the people running it are an integral part of the community just from overhearing them chat with customers, checking in on people and how they have been since they last saw them. I’m already looking forward to when I get to stop by again and try more of their tasty food and drinks!

4. Quick service, nice folks, adequate prices, and good noodles.

   Zhajiang noodles are where it’s at. Somewhat spicy, cooled by the cucumbers, plenty of each ingredient. Just a great item.

   Rose milk tea is the best of the teas I’ve tried so far, but I am not a huge fan of Boba teas, so take that with a grain of salt.

   Dan Dan noodles were different than others I’ve had. Not in a bad way, but I definitely prefer the Zhajiang noodles. These were very peanut flavored, and the ones I received were somewhat dry. This might be by design, I just wasn’t a huge fan of this interpretation.

5. Popped in on a whim for boba and a muffin and am glad I did! The lavender earl grey was great. Seems to be run by really sweet people—they gave me some cute little candies along with my purchases which was a nice touch. And whatever they were cooking smelled really awesome, so I think I’ll be back to try some of their food 🙂

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