Boston’s Top 10 : Cafés – Top 10 Spots to Break your Diet

1. L’Aroma Café

   The
   beautiful people take their espresso at L’Aroma, where the Italian
   style of the coffees, sandwiches, luncheon salads, and pastries are more
   evocative of Milan than Rome. As a bonus, tea-lovers can order from a
   choice of 20 loose-leaf varieties .

2. Caffè Vittoria

   The
   jukebox at the largest of North End’s Italian cafés has nearly every
   song ever recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Al Martino. The
   menu is long on short coffees and short drinks, including at least seven
   varieties of grappa, as well as a fair selection of Italian ices.

   • 296 Hanover St

3. Diesel Café

   Diesel
   is the quintessential Davis Square gathering spot where the tragically
   hip rub shoulders with lesbian couples and scruffy Tufts students. The
   spacious café has old-fashioned booths, couches, and a pair of pool
   tables out back. The coffee menu includes a powerful double-caffeine
   “High Octane” brew plus teas and tisanes.

   • 257 Elm St, Somerville

4. Trident Booksellers & Café

   Bibliophiles
   make pilgrimages to this fine bookstore. The in-store café and bar
   serves light and casual meals ranging from breakfast eggs to lunch wraps
   as well as excellent dinner dishes like lasagna. 

   
   

   
   
   

   Trident Booksellers & Café

5. Sonsie

   Although
   continental breakfast is served, the scene doesn’t really kick into
   bustling life until lunch time. By dusk, Sonsie is full of folks who
   just stopped in for a post-work drink and ended up making an evening of
   it. The food – pizza, pasta and fusion-tinged entrées – deserves more
   attention than most café-goers give it .

   
   

   
   
   

   Sonsie

6. Other Side Café

   Multiple-pierced
   and body-art-beautiful Berklee music students and health-obsessive
   Boston University waifs hold down the stools and tables of this
   coffee-house-cum-smoothie shack on the “wrong” side of Massachusetts
   Avenue. Edge without danger is part of the draw, and the expresso sports
   a perfect. crema

7. 1369 Coffee House

   The
   1369 Coffee House is as community-based as Starbucks is corporate.
   There is a definite neighborly atmosphere about the place. The original
   Inman Square branch has a more interesting cross section of ages and
   ethnicities but Central Square has sidewalk seating. Both branches serve
   mostly caffeine drinks and sweets – with sandwiches at lunch.

8. Garden of Eden Café

   The
   best-dressed, most buff South Enders patronize this gem of a café for
   tasty dishes like duck pâté with bits of pistachio and orange or classic
   French onion soup. Prepare to wait in line at lunch time for the
   sandwiches or stop by mid-afternoon to savor a large molasses cookie
   with a cappuccino.

   • 571 Tremont St

   
   

   
   
   

   Garden of Eden Café

9. Dado Tea

   However
   you like your tea – white, black, or green – this shop has a choice of
   blends to steep as a spiritually uplifting break in itself or as
   accompaniment to light and healthy sandwiches, wraps, and salads.
   Coffee-lovers are also accommodated, but tea rules here.

   • 955 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

10. Parish Café

    During
    warm weather, the tables outside Parish Café offer a terrific view of
    the lower Back Bay street scene. Parish has some of the most creative
    and delicious sandwiches in the city – designed by chefs of Boston’s top
    restaurants. Comfort food dishes (such as meatloaf with mashed
    potatoes, fishcakes with Pommery mustard) are also excellent.

Top 10 Spots to Break your Diet