Area Four
Pizza restaurant · Neighborhood Four
500 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Highlights
Wood-fired pizzas with 30-hour fermented dough, plus espresso.
Wood-fired pizzas with 30-hour fermented dough, plus espresso.
"Area Four is best known for serving wood-fired pizzas in an industrial chic dining room, but they’ve also got a cafe with excellent coffee and breakfast pastries. During the week, you’ll find scientists escaping windowless labs to take meetings over briny clam and oregano pizzas, but making a trip to Kendall Square for weekend brunch is really the move. Order the perfect breakfast pizza topped with housemade sausage and pickled peppers, and add a skillet of supreme garlic knots for the table. Salads are another highlight here, particularly the garlicky caesar, piled high with shaved pecorino. Wrap things up by sharing the fruit and frangipane-topped almond butter french toast with a friend, because what is brunch without breakfast-dessert?Both Cambridge locations are part of the Link & Dine program." - Team Infatuation
"Price: $$ Perfectly embracing Boston’s wood-fired pizza renaissance, Area Four serves up beautiful pies with a heavily blistered crust that benefits from a 30-plus-hour ferment and a sourdough starter. Try the carnivore pizza, topped with big, spicy pieces of soppressata as well as sausage and bacon. Insider tip: Order a cup of the bread-and-butter pickles on the side. They make for an excellent additional topping for your slice." - Erika Adams
"The dough at Area Four is made with a sourdough starter and ferments for 30 or more hours. The result: one of the best pizzas in Boston. The wood-fired pizzas have a beautifully blistered crust. Keep things simple and get the “not pepperoni” (it’s soppressata)." - Erika Adams
"Area Four has been at the heart of the growing food scene in Kendall Square since 2011. They’re best known for serving wood-fired pizzas in an industrial chic dining room, but they’ve also got a cafe with excellent coffee and breakfast pastries. During the week, you’ll find scientists escaping windowless labs to take meetings over briny clam and oregano pizzas, but making a trip to Kendall Square for weekend brunch is really the move. Order the perfect breakfast pizza topped with housemade sausage and pickled peppers, and add a skillet of supreme garlic knots for the table. Wrap things up by sharing the fruit and frangipane-topped almond butter french toast with a friend, because what is brunch without breakfast-dessert?" - tanya edwards, megan zhang, dan secatore, catherine smart, jonathan smith
"Area Four has been at the heart of the growing food scene in Kendall Square since 2011. During the week, you’ll find scientists escaping windowless labs to take meetings over briny clam and oregano pizzas, but making a trip to Kendall Square for weekend brunch is really the move. Order the perfect breakfast pizza topped with housemade sausage and pickled peppers, and add a skillet of supreme garlic knots for the table. Wrap things up by sharing the fruit and frangipane-topped almond butter french toast with a friend, because what is brunch without breakfast-dessert?" - tanya edwards, catherine smart
