Earnest Drinks

Egg and Cheese

2 over medium fried eggs on a toasted brioche roll with American cheese. This is the only thing anyone ever wants to eat in their life, even when we're validating parking.

Pork Three-Way

Housemade pulled pork with the North Shore classic house mayo, BBQ and American cheese on an AJ King bun.

The Linden Sandwich

Sliced turkey, crispy pancetta, and Swiss cheese on a soft hoagie roll with lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Our version of the venerable turkey, bacon Swiss, a metro west classic. Parking is validated, you've just gotta ask.

Double Mushroom "Steak" and Cheese (vegetarian)

We season maitake and honshimeji mushrooms, and saute them with onions and peppers, then what we do is top them with our house pimento cheese sauce. Lastly we blast them into a sub roll. The word steak is in quotation marks because it's not real steak. It's mushrooms. Vegetarian.

Two Hot Dogs

Two hot dogs in garlic griddled buns. Simple. It's a good lunch or dinner. We have some things you can add on to it. Do that, or not. No judgement.

Muffuletta

A new Orleans classic teleported by science to Kendall Square. Olive paste, pickled veggies, all of the meats prosciutto, mortadella, genoa salami, Swiss cheese, and provolone on a sesame burger bun. Parking is validated, you've just gotta ask.

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Pressed until melty and awesome. Vegetarian.

Cheese Dip

Our house pimento cheese sauce, in a cup, with bugles for dippin' purposes only. Vegetarian.

Koolickle

Koolickles, or Kool-Aid pickles, come from the tradition of Southern gas station cuisine, and are salty sweet with a vinegar bite. This batch is fruit punch, cherry, and lemonade.

The Earnest Burger

It's a burger, but it's meatloaf, but it's a burger, but it's meatloaf made with veggies and spices, shaped into a 4 oz. patty. Comes topped with lettuce, tomato, onion, Swiss cheese, and a little bit of ketchup on a brioche bun. Also, totally unrelated, but we validate parking.

Southern Cheese Dog

You can put any kind of cheese on a hot dog, but Chef James thinks house-made pimento is how to do it best, and he's got the knives, so we kind of just go with it. Topped with Fritos. We recommend adding on the BBQ pork.

Charcuterie Plate

Fun fact, charcuterie is French, not Italian. This make-your-own meat board comes with Triscuits and Ritz crackers for a little crunch. There is also fig jam, plum jam, and whole grain mustard.

Build Your Own Sandwich

This choose your own sandwich adventure comes with your choice of bread, cheese, veggie, and a spread. Enjoy yourself, be yourself, and don't forget, we validate parking.

Meatball Sub

Classic Polpette (thats Italian for meatballs) in housemade red sauce with melted mozzarella. The housemade meatballs have beef, pork, onion, garlic, oregano, fennel, and pecorino cheese in them, and are simmered in a red sauce of tomato, onion, and garlic. Plus several decades of guilt. Its all put into a sub roll, topped with cheese, and melted in the oven. Best served with a glass of dark red, a can of inexpensive beer, or bragging about whichever team youre supporting.

Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina

For home, served frozen. You don't have to wonder what you'd do with a 1 lb. and a 1/2 of homemade gnocchi, sauce, and cheese anymore. Gnocchi is potato, flour, and eggs. That's it. Oh and love. These babies are swimming in a basily tomato sauce with chunks of mozzarella cheese in there, and they're topped with, guess what, more melty mozzarella. This entree (for two?) is ready for you to take home and bake in your oven. 375 degrees: covered for 30 minutes, uncovered for 10-15 minutes until everything is bubbly, melted, and a little brown on top. Vegetarian.

Three Bean Chili

For home, served frozen. We got black beans, we got kidney beans, we even got cannelloni beans, all chili'd up with carrots, tomato, onions. 12 oz. portion serves 1-2 depending on how hungry you are. Vegan.

Buffalo Chicken Lasagna (vegetarian)

For home, served frozen. When there were parties (remember?!), there would be buffalo dip, and occasionally, you'd be in the corner, eating the entire bowl of it. You're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, but you're also not supposed to make lasagna out of buffalo chicken dip! YET WE CONTINUE THIS MALARKEY. It has all of the classic buffalo chicken dip flavors: cream and blue cheeses, hot sauce, and ranch. The chicken has been swapped for tempeh because chicken's just for texture in buffalo dip. Bake at 425 for 30-40 minutes, until bubbly and lightly browned.

Roman Dinosaur Gnocchi

For home, served frozen. This is Roman Gnocchi, Aaron's favorite type of gnocchi. Roman gnocchi differs from gnocchi because there's no potato, just semolina, milk, egg yolk, and lots and lots of parmesan cheese. We lay them down to sleep on a bed of spicy tomato sauce and top them with more parmesan. Bake in your oven at 425 degrees for 25 minutes, until lightly browned and bubbly. If you've read this far, you may be delighted to know the reason we call this dish Roman Dinosaur Gnocchi is because our roman gnocchi are shaped like dinosaurs.

Make Your Own Sundae Kit

Everything you need to make sundaes at home including two pints of ice cream, a can of whipped cream, dry topping, and wet topping. Makes about 6 sundaes, or 2 or 8.

Chocolate Caramel Corn

Everyone's had caramel corn before, but at the bake sale they have when you go vote, someone makes this ridiculous chocolate splattered caramel corn and we don't know who that person is, but there weren't any bake sales this year, so we made our own chocolate covered caramel corn. Try not to eat it all at once. Or do if you want. It doesn't matter. This is for a quart of caramel corn.

Chicken Pot Pie

For home, served frozen. A deliciously flaky or flakily delicious pot pie Chef James says is "absolutely scrumptious," and even though we've been telling him to stop saying scrumptious, he's right, it is. This pot pie is bake at home, which means when you get it from us, it'll be frozen. A traditional cheddar cheese crust, chicken, honeynut squash, sage, apple cider. These 5 inch pies are a pound each, and more than enough food for one person, or enough for two people with a side or two. When you get it home, put it in the oven at 375 for 45 minutes until golden toasty.

Mushroom Pot Pie

For home, served frozen. A deliciously flaky or flakily delicious pot pie Chef James says is "absolutely scrumptious," and even though we've been telling him to stop saying scrumptious, he's right, it is. This pot pie is bake at home, which means when you get it from us, it'll be frozen. A mushroom baby with cheddar cheese crust, shiitake mushrooms, thyme, white wine, garlic.These 5 inch pies are a pound each, and more than enough food for one person, or enough for two people with a side or two. When you get it home, put it in the oven at 375 for 45 minutes until golden toasty.

Baked Mac and Cheese

For home, served frozen. We've got standard baked mac, and then we've got standard baked mac with pimento and hot dog blasted into it. James hand-shaped semolina Cavatelli for you and mixed it with mornay sauce, which is swiss, provolone, and cheddar cheeses mixed into a roux. It's perfect. On top theres ritz crackers, panko bread crumbs, cheddar, parsley, and butter.This comes FROZEN, so you have to cook it at home, but here's how: take off plastic wrap, but leave on foil. Blast it at 400F for 35 minutes, remove foil and continue to bake for 10-15 minutes, until topping is browned and bubbling.This is 12 oz of macaroni in 5 inch tin, which is enough food for one dinner or share with a bunch of veggies.

Ice Cream Pie

This 9 inch ice cream pie feeds 6-12 people depending on slice size and other desserts and how you feel right at this very moment, which varies moment to moment.

Regular Sized Cinnamon Bun

For home, served frozen. Giant, gooey, and beautifully messy. These are regularly sized cinnamon buns for the soul. To increase gooeyness, stick 'em in your oven at 300 for 10-15 minutes, and enjoy. For the powdered sugar blend, add about a tablespoon of water to turn it into icing magic.

French Onion Soup (vegetarian)

For home, served frozen. French Onion Soup was invented in New Jersey (same birthplace as Jersey Shore!) in 1993 and since then has taken the world by storm with its caramelized onions and savory broth which really sticks to your bones on cold days. Our version uses veggie stock instead of beef stock, so it's vegetarian friendly and, hang on, it appears French Onion Soup came from France in the 18th Century so it just shows to go you CAN trust everything you read on this website. It comes as a pint of frozen soup with some bread topped with aged Gruyere cheese that you can toast in your oven and float on top of your soup when it's hot. To reheat: microwave the soup in two minute bursts until its hot, stirring between each round. Or put the soup in a pot and reheat it on the stove. You do you! Toast the bread under the broiler and put it on top.

Hot Tea

Various selections of hot tea from MEM tea right here in Cambridge.

House Coffee

Brewed fresh all day long with beans from atomic coffee.

Iced Coffee

Made right here with beans from atomic coffee roasters and love from our hearts.

Espresso

Double shot of espresso of made out of atomic coffee roaster coffee beans.

Latte

Double shot of espresso with steamed milk.

Chai Tea Latte

Blend of chai tea and your favorite dairy, dairy alternative. Add an espresso shot to make it dirty.

Americano

Espresso and water and also more water if you want it.

Mocha

Double shot of espresso with milk and foam and also sweet sweet chocolate.

Affogato

Your choice of ice cream a double shot of espresso. Aaron doesn't believe in coffee ice cream, and only makes it under duress, but if you get this you're pretty much getting coffee ice cream with the requisite buzz, which is a good way to stick it to Aaron.

Iced Tea

Once in a while I drink too much iced too too quickly and my face starts vibrating and I can see several seconds into the future. That won't happen to you if you don't over do it, maybe. Made with mem tea from right here in cambridge

Hot Chocolate

It's our hot fudge and milk all steamed up in a delicious delight. Add a shot.

Aussie Iced Latte

It's an iced latte with a scoop of ice cream and a double shot of espresso and also milk and it's from Australia. The drink, not the milk.

Root Beer

It's A&W right now, but it could be IBC tomorrow.

8 oz. Bottled Diet Coke

Mexican Coke

in a glass bottle with real sugar. 355ml

Spicy Hot Fudge Sauce

It's the same as our hot fudge sauce, but make it spicy with some cayenne. A half pint of spicy hot fudge, thick and good, perfect for ice cream or other desserts. We make this fudge ourselves and with affection.

Hot Fudge Sauce

A half pint of fudge, thick and good, perfect for ice cream or other desserts. We make this fudge ourselves and with affection.

Bourbon Salty Caramel Sauce

A half-pint of boozy caramel for you to do literally whatever you want with as long as it's not something mean to other people.

Herb Butter

A half-pint of Earnest Drinks whipped herb butter for you to eat whenever or wherever. You probably know what to do with butter, but just ask and we'll be happy to demonstrate the classic bread and butter combo.