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If Cambridge fancies itself the nation's intellectual hub, the coffeehouse is its salon, where grad students and professors hold court at tiny tables overflowing with books and laptops. • The new citywide smoking ban may have stolen some of the atmosphere (or cleared it), but at the great Algiers (40 Brattle St.; 617/492-1557), the faithful still devour Schopenhauer and sip mint tea to the thrum of a Moroccan rai sound track. • Crouch into the spare Café Pamplona (12 Bow St.; 617/547-2763) for heart-rattlingly strong coffee; then eavesdrop on your neighbors discussing string theory. • Up in the tony Huron Avenue neighborhood, the Hi-Rise Bread Co. (208 Concord Ave.; 617/876-8766) is the city's best bakery. • Chocolate guru Larry Burdick works wonders at L.A. Burdick (52D Brattle St.; 617/491-4340), a Viennese-style café serving delicate desserts and mind-blowing hot chocolate.
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