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Le Grand Prix Elmendorf du Pain street fest promises more of everything this year, including actual French people

by Marc Levy May 27, 2026

The festival and competition – inspired by a Paris baguette-baking contest – will pack onto Cambridge Street on June 14 before a French World Cup match.

DEVELOPMENT

Keezer’s has a next home and Simon’s Coffee Shop is looking as an apartment project speeds toward construction

by Marc Levy May 27, 2026

The apartment project at 1740 Massachusetts Ave. is on track for a permit submission in June and demolition in the months that follow.

ASK CHEF JJ

It’s picnic time, and we have tips for fried chicken, potato salad, coleslaw and dunking watermelon in the ocean

by JJ Gonson May 22, 2026

Everyone has their own idea of a picnic. We look at cooking and presenting four classics of outdoor dining as melon (and yellow jacket wasp) season nears.

FOOD

Fire officials don’t like customers grilling alone at the Gen Korean BBQ proposed for Harvard Square (updated)

by Marc Levy May 19, 2026

The wait will be a little longer for the Gen Korean BBQ House looking to take over the long-empty Dickson Bros. hardware store space in Harvard Square.

FOOD

Another abrupt shutdown at Davis Square’s iconic Rosebud Diner leaves diners in the dark (updated)

by Marc Levy May 18, 2026

It would be easy to think The Rosebud diner is closed again. It’s dark inside, lifeless. There’s no sign on the door, and no information online.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, May 18-25: We’re buying land in Lincoln and learning more about Memorial Drive attack

by Marc Levy May 17, 2026

Take part in meetings on a land buy to protect city water, a hotel expansion with a coffee and cocktail lounge and filling school district roles.

FOOD

Dickson Bros. site in Harvard Square is proposed to be four stories of Korean barbecue, including a deck

by Marc Levy May 16, 2026

The long-empty Dickson Bros. hardware store in Harvard Square is about to become a glitzy, multistory Korean barbecue restaurant open late.

BUSINESS

The Mushroom Shop announces a move to East Cambridge

by Christian Uva May 15, 2026

After four years in Somerville, Tyler Akabane’s Mushroom Shop moves this year to East Cambridge, to where the Courthouse Fish Market operated for 112 years.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, May 11-18: Putting mayoral elections in voters’ hands and senior parking permits

by Marc Levy May 10, 2026

Take part in meetings on direct election of mayors, a project near Porter Square to add 71 homes and setting the city’s next annual budget.

OPINION

Tatte no way

by Nicholas Marchuk May 3, 2026

Young professionals on this side of the river don’t talk about it, but none of us really go to Tatte. It’s a bit like going to a Hard Rock Cafe in New York.