Grendel's Den

Grendels Restaurant & Bar is located at 64 Church St, Cambridge, MA. This location is in the Harvard Square neighborhood. This business specializes in American Restaurants.

Grendel's romantic outdoor seating is great for a date, but note that the half-price option isn't served outside.

This quintessential grad-student hangout is low-lit and brick-walled. During happy hour, tasty entrées like crab dip, burritos, nachos, and burgers are half-priced with a $3-per-person drink (inside only; not on outdoor patio).

On Harvard Square since 1971, this "old-time" American "staple" is perhaps best known for its "reverse happy hour", when full-price booze purchases get you half off the "tasty" sandwiches and other bar bites – but it's always "affordable", and thus "stuffed" with students; a "phenomenal" beer selection, "cozy" "ratskeller" digs and a "nice patio" make it an all-weather choice for "late"...

A vestige of pre-franchise Harvard Square, this cozy subterranean space is the place to celebrate turning 21. Recent grads and grad students dominate, but Grendel's has been so popular for so long that it also attracts Gen Y's parents. The food is tasty, with loads of vegetarian dishes, and the fireplace enhances the comfy atmosphere.

The Scene
This subterranean hangout is usually filled to capacity with Harvard kids, grad students, recent grads and long, long-ago grads. Grendel's varied menu includes everything from...

Named after Grendel, the antagonist in the Old English poem of Beowulf, Grendel’s Den has been serving Harvard Square since... 1971. We figured, Grendel may have been an hideous ogre, but he knew a good mead hall when he saw one. That idea of lively merriment is still alive and well at Grendel’s Den. A dyed-in-the-wool Harvard staple, Grendel’s has always been known as a comfortable, friendly...