Ice cream aficionados understand that Toscanini's takes its frozen confection seriously. A Cambridge favorite since 1981, it serves up some of the most unique and best-tasting flavors around. You can take home hand-packed pints for $6.25. If you'd like a one-of-a-kind ice cream, call and place your order two days in advance. Have 'Breakfast at the Big Table': a weekend brunch featuring innovative classics such as cornmeal pancakes with blueberry compote, a 'crunch' monsieur and fresh, French press coffee. Here is a sampling of recent flavors: Belgian-white chocolate swirl, White chocolate butterscotch, Malted Heath, Butter Milk, Malted Vanilla, Butter Chip, Mexican Chocolate, Mango, Burnt Caramel, Burnt Caramel Hydrox, Mocha, Lime Vanilla, Prunes Armagnac (!), Sweet Cream, Ginger Snap Molasses, Honey Almond, khulfee... Arguably offering some of the best coffee in Cambridge!

This small local restaurant, is just off of central square, on Main street. With a small dining room, this restaurant is reasonably priced and has a really good selection of, inexpensive dinner specials. Known far and wide for the greasiness of their Americanized food, this is not always such a bad thing. Sometimes you want like that. They also deliver.

At Royal Bengal, every sauce is different, and the sense of seasoning is most unusual, you can choose from an array of traditional Northern Indian fare, but the menu’s, also swimming with two dozens of unique Bengali dishes. All Bengali foods are prepared with extraordinary care, subtly spiced, and they’re cooked with mustard oil, which is greatly healthy for the heart. Best of all, all fishes are freshly imported from Bengal, and they’re made-to-order; so you can have them while they’re freshest and contains the most possible zest. The 32-seat room shows loving touches on a budget--Indian wall hangings, folk art and posters fix the ethnic identity, and servers wear traditional Bengali garb. White tablecloths and pink cloth napkins dress up the look for patrons from MIT and Bengalis delighted to have some home-cooking. You can't go wrong with the Lunch Buffet 7 Days a week Students get a 10 percent discount on orders of $10 or more.

Aficionados of Chinese cuisine swear by house specialties like salt-and-pepper pork chops and intricately prepared Peking duck. Dessert options usually begin and end with fresh fruit like plump lychees. Bargain luncheon combination plates are served weekdays until 3pm and cost about $5 each.