Pagu

Guest capacity

Up to 175 seated guests

About this venue

Inspired by Chang's experiences at O Ya, Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Spanish three-star Michelin Restaurante Martin Berasategui, Guchi's Midnight Ramen, and Harvard's Science + Cooking Program, the menu highlights local ingredients, while celebrating the harmony of flavors and techniques of Japanese and Spanish cuisines. PAGU's award winning team works with you to plan every detail from menu, to cocktails, to space design, hotel accommodation and everything in between to ensure that your rehearsal dinner, wedding reception, or ceremony is absolutely perfect. Our chef /owner Tracy Chang is 100% hands on and will custom design your menu and experience from start to finish.

Seated guest capacity

Venue type

Restaurants, Breweries
Urban Locations

Venue setting

Indoor
Outdoor

310 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Full Buyout

Beautiful urban space| Award winning food & drink

Enjoy our entire restaurant including our indoor space and patio. PAGU's award winning team works with you to plan every detail from menu, to cocktails, to space design, hotel accommodation and everything in between to ensure that your special day is absolutely perfect. Our chef /owner Tracy Chang is 100% hands on and will custom design your menu and experience from start to finish.

Guest capacity

Up to 150 Seated

Up to 174 Standing

Ideal for

Wedding ceremony, Elopement, Wedding reception, Rehearsal dinner, Wedding shower, Engagement party, Welcome party, After party, Farewell brunch, Couples luncheon, Baraat, Cocktail hour

Available services that can be provided by Pagu

Services & amenities

Bar services
Catering services
Clean up
Dance floor
Event coordinator
Event staff
Lighting/Sound
Service staff
Set up
Wedding cake services
Wheelchair accessible
Wifi

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Cozy space, incredible people, excellent food!
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•Kim C.•Nov 14
We had our wedding (ceremony, cocktail hour, reception) at Pagu and it was perfect for us! We wanted a cozy setting with excellent food for our group of 70 people and the ability to incorporate a dance floor, which Pagu delivered on all fronts. Pagu was incredible to work with from beginning to the end. We worked with Amanda, the manager, closely, and she proposed a few different floor plans and worked with me to continue to tweak as our plans changed. I am a huge foodie and we had a wonderful tasting but I wanted to customize the menu more and Pagu was able to accommodate every ask. Not only that, Pagu customized a special dish that is meaningful to us, and it made it even more touching. They even made our wedding cake! We had signature cocktails for the bride and groom and it was so nice to work with the cocktail consultant Jimmy on this. On the day of, all my guests told me that the entire staff provided great service. It was also really impressive how quickly the staff turned over the space from ceremony to reception while our cocktail hour took place at the patio. I sent our groomsmen and some family to help with some decor setup but Pagu also helped tremendously with setup too. The day went so seamlessly and we are so glad we chose Pagu!
Exceptional!
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•Laura S.•Oct 14, 2024
My husband and I had a wedding cocktail hour, reception, and dancing at PAGU. It was intimate, elevated, and it is hard to beat the central location. The space was perfect for what we wanted and Amanda and her team were incredible. They were flexible, made the process very tailored to us and our style, communicated well, and was one of the more stress free experiences during wedding planning. My partner and I were able to visit PAGU for dinner quite a few times before our wedding, with various sized groups, and were always treated with kindness and warmth by all staff. We also recommend the specialty cocktail tasting with Jimmy. We had such a good time and Jimmy was incredibly talented and creative. During and after the wedding, we received many compliments on how fantastic the food and drinks were (worlds better than most wedding food!). We also wanted to give a special shoutout to our server on the night of the wedding. We could not have asked for a more talented or attentive individual! Thank you PAGU for such an incredible night! We could not recommend this venue more highly.
September 2024 Wedding
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•Stephanie L.•Sep 16, 2024
It’s impossible to fully express how wonderful PAGU is, both as a standalone restaurant and as a wedding venue. As Cambridge residents, we had eaten here with friends and family and knew the food, drinks, and service were excellent, and I hosted a work event with a partial buy out that everyone enjoyed, so it quickly came to the top of our list after we got engaged and were looking into wedding venues. From the very beginning, the staff, especially event manager Amanda, were so easy to work with, and they were very flexible to make the space, menu, and overall wedding very personal to us. After a cocktail hour with both passed apps and stations, we opted to have a buffet style wedding so we could accommodate a variety of palettes (our families are from different cultures: Chinese/Indonesian and German/Italian), everyone could find something they liked, and we could show off a seafood paella in a large format paella pan. They even offered a Thai pesto dish that is not standard on their menu! They were also extremely conscientious about guests with food allergies, clearly marking them on menus, and even going to specific guests (especially those with celiac disease) and providing separate non-cross contaminated dishes. They also managed the flow of tables and buffet line efficiently and flawlessly, which can’t be overlooked, as we’ve been to weddings where this wasn’t the case. Our guests all told us it was the best wedding food and cocktails they’ve ever had, and we were so excited to share one of our favorite restaurants with them. The space was perfect for our 110 person wedding. The outdoor patio was a nice space for a cocktail hour and provided a quiet place to hang out when the dance floor later opened. The main restaurant is much larger than it looks, so it manages to feel intimate while still fitting over 100 people without feeling cramped. We had the DJ upstairs in the mezzanine like a real DJ booth, which allowed him to have a great read on the dance floor and assure no one was sitting right in front of a speaker. Finally, they cleared the front two large tables for a dance floor that was plenty large enough for everyone to dance for over 2 hours. Finally, we were thrilled to use our wedding to support a local business that not only has a mission to serve excellent food and drinks (they’ve received James Beard Award nominations!), but also to build community. Chef/owner Tracy Chang founded several nonprofits during COVID to provide economic relief to restaurant workers and donate meals to hospital workers, and she and PAGU have been hosting roundtable events to start conversations about sustainability, culture, and community. We first heard of PAGU after my sister went to a roundtable event about using invasive green crabs in cooking! We knew hosting a wedding was going to be an investment, and while we would have been so happy choosing PAGU for our wedding for the myriad of reasons above, we felt especially great about putting our investment into a place that cares about the world and community around it. We could not recommend PAGU enough for your wedding!
STELLAR wedding experience at Pagu!!
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•Kathleen Young N.•Jun 25, 2024
We cannot recommend Pagu highly enough for your wedding or event. From the very first email, they were unlike any of the venues we had reached out to. Overall, Pagu is flexible, which not only made wedding planning MUCH less stressful, but it made our wedding personal to us. Every time we had a question, they had an answer and a solution. You’re not messing around with rentals for plates, chairs, tables, linens or tons of decor. The space is beautiful and already functions so well as a restaurant, allowing you to just be their guest on your wedding day. The FOOD! Multiple guests came up to us and said it was the best wedding food they had ever had. Everything was hot, fresh, aesthetically plated and delicious. The family style sharing was relaxed, fun and nobody had to wait in line. The cake was so light and beautifully decorated. Day-of, what really stood out was the exceptional service and kindness we received from the entire team at Pagu. Everyone who works there was so positive, accommodating, and thoughtful. When I was “hiding” before the ceremony, the team delivered an entire tea/coffee service with some of the food to make sure I got something to eat! When we got back to our hotel, we found a portion of each dish in our fridge, just because they heard we hadn’t finished our second course or dessert while we were socializing. It was above and beyond thoughtful! Beyond taking extremely good care of us, all of our guests commented that it was one of the most relaxing weddings because the Pagu team thought of everything. At most weddings, there’s not a server checking in with you about your allergies, restrictions, and if you would like a drink. Since Pagu is a restaurant, you get outstanding restaurant-quality service. They even made a last minute, individual substitution for a new dietary restriction on the spot, and allowed that guest to enjoy the food, too! Another huge bonus was there was almost no bar line, since they’re used to making drinks for this many people! Other highlights of our experience include doing the cocktail creation session with Jimmy. We aren’t big drinkers, so we almost didn’t do this, but we are so glad we did - it was a blast, and the guests loved the personal cocktails. We highly recommend it! The space is gorgeous, the people are a dream, and the food was outstanding. Amanda (the venue coordinator/manager) was so easy to work with and on top of everything. Even our very traditional families (who were very skeptical when we said we were getting married at a restaurant) said afterwards it was one of the best weddings they’d been to. All photos credited to Franzi Annika Photography!