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Finale - Harvard Square

30 Dunster Street at Mount Auburn
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-441-9797

Finale - Harvard Square restaurant information
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The Finale concept was borne out of a Harvard Business School brainstorming session in 1996. Sophomore would-be entrepreneurs Paul Conforti and Kim Moore spent the next couple of years refining the idea before opening their upscale dessert-focused café near Boston’s Park Plaza hotel in 1998.

Now with three locations, Finale offers an intimate setting that has been called plush, romantic and perfect for a late-night bite after a show or an indulgent mid-afternoon break. You can also get lunch and dinner here, and there’s a full list of wines, beers, cordials and coffees. Those Harvard kids think of everything.

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Buttery sugar cookie with fresh strawberries tossed in rhubarb sauce and served with Bavarian cream and fresh whipped cream
 
 
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