Upstairs On the Square, originally UpStairs at the Pudding (because of the original location above Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club),[1] ended “its storied 31-year run” on December 31, 2013.

Owned by Mary-Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes, the building they were in was being sold by the landlord.

[3] In 2012, Hughes' daughter Charlotte Silver published a memoir about growing up at the restaurant, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood’’.

Ella Fitzgerald sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to one of the sous chefs.

Julia Roberts smoked a cigarette in the coatroom ”and turned to (the staff) and said, ‘Shhh, don’t tell.’”[4] In 2002, they relocated to Winthrop Street, also in Harvard Square.