Cafe Camtown

Head up to Akeman Street in Arbury and you'll find Cafe Camtown doing what good neighbourhood cafés should do: showing up consistently and doing it well. The kind of place where regulars know the staff by name and the Wi-Fi password is unnecessary because you're here to actually chat, not lurk on your laptop. You'll get decent coffee—the sort that doesn't pretend to be something it's not—and the brunch menu hits that sweet spot between unpretentious and properly executed. It's tucked away enough that you won't stumble on it by accident, which means it's stayed refreshingly free of the social media circus that plagues some Cambridge spots.