You might be interested in the menubar and icon toolbar at the top of an emacs window, but personally I find the emacs menus unintuitive and the icon toolbar kind of superfluous, and use neither. Fortunately you can turn both off if you like using M-x menu-bar-mode (it's a toggle) and M-x tool-bar-mode.
To make these preferences permanent, add (tool-bar-mode -1) and (menu-bar-mode -1) to your emacs file, respectively.