Coffee in Claremont

A bakery on Yale Avenue that dates itself to 1916 and has been the Claremont Village's morning counter ever since, with bread, pastry, a short breakfast and lunch menu and coffee to take out onto the sidewalk. The line at eight in the morning is students and faculty in roughly equal measure. It shuts early, at one on Monday and two on Sunday.

Mon, 6:30am to 1pm. Tue, 6:30am to 4pm. Wed to Fri, 6:30am to 6pm. Sat, 7am to 6pm. Sun, 8am to 2pm

A café on Harvard Avenue with a patio under the trees, coffee, sandwiches and soup, and enough students working at the tables that nobody will mind if you sit for an hour. Vegan and gluten-free options are on the board rather than an afterthought. It closes at twenty past four, which is not a typo and is the one thing that decides whether this stop works.

Daily, 8am to 4:20pm