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Summer Shack

149 Alewife Brook Pkwy.
Cambridge, MA 02140
Phone: 617-520-9500
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Fax: 617-520-9539
Price Range: : $$$ — Expensive
Cuisine(s): Seafood
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This fun-loving seafood restaurant feels like a combination clambake, roadside diner, and family reunion, serving up fresh, simple fish and shellfish. The pan-roasted lobsters are legendary.

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Best of Boston 2010: Whole Lobster
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Best of Boston 2010: Fried Clams
There's not a lot of in-between with fried clams. They're either great—or awful. Summer Shack's whole Ipswich clams, though, ar...

Best of Boston 2009 Kid-friendly
Talk about knowing your audience. With its giant bucket of crayons on the hostess stand and army of highchairs standing at the ready,...

Best of Boston 2007 Seafood, Affordable
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