T: Red line to Kendall/MIT; street parking on Hampshire and surrounding streets.
PAYMENT
POPULAR DISH
Pizza, pizza, and more pizza; also a small assortment of salads and Italian pagnotelle, warm pressed sandwiches made daily with a variety of fresh, local ingredients. Order by number when choosing one of their 25 suggested pizzas, or design your own. Half and half pizzas are a good choice for the indecisive.
You will be charged for the more expensive half, so get your money's worth.
UNIQUE DISH
The pizza here has an almost paper thin crust and is topped with everything from Italian sausage to dried cranberries and roasted sweet potatoes.
DRINKS
Italian fruit juices, soda, beer, and wine
SEATING
A small counter in the window serves slices; table service for about 40 in the back; come early, especially on weekend nights when the place fills up with pre- and post-movie crowds.
AMBIENCE/CLIENTELE
Funky is the word in this happy mish-mash of a dining room with yard sale tables and chairs, and assorted antique silverware and place settings. The clientele is appropriately diverse: students, neighbors, and Kendall Square movie enthusiasts. Weekend evenings are busy, as are weekday lunches when the
crowd pulls from the neighborhood tech fi rms.
Extras/Notes
Owners Wendy and Dave inherited the name from their old location on Huron Ave. where they took over a longstanding West Cambridge neighborhood institution run by the original Emma and her husband. Although they kept the name, they updated the pizza with a choice of sauces: traditional, rosemary, and olive oil infused with garlic; cheeses: cow, goat, and sheep; and infi nite toppings of the gourmet and not-so variety. Soon their custom-made pies became so popular that patrons had to order hours in advance if they wanted pizza for dinner. About
eight years ago, Emma's moved into its Kendall Square location where business is busy as ever.
