Inman Square
Inman Square is Cambridge's most grounded neighborhood — 1369 Coffee House and Broadsheet Roasters anchoring the coffee layer, S&S Restaurant open since 1919, Portuguese Plaza embedded among 17 parks threading through the residential grid. Cambridge without the performance anxiety about itself.
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About this Neighborhood
Inman Square resists the Cambridge tendency toward self-congratulation. The 34 restaurants are below cohort but the density is real: S&S Restaurant since 1919, All-Star Sandwich Bar, Mama Gina's. The eight coffee shops are small in count but loaded with identity — 1369 Coffee House is a Cambridge institution that has never needed to explain itself, and Broadsheet Coffee Roasters arrived without displacing anything. Ten grocery stores including a Whole Foods on Cambridge Street and Tropical Dimension Food Store and Harvard Market for the neighborhood's genuine diversity. Seventeen parks — the highest in this Cambridge cluster — include Jackson Gardens, Portuguese Plaza (a pocket park that names who built this neighborhood), and Elm-Hampshire Park. Social glue at 67. War Memorial Recreation Center and Fitlab Pilates in the fitness layer. This is Cambridge before the tech money completed its takeover.
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