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Tacos and Mexican plates on East Lancaster Avenue, all lowercase and a period on the sign. Order a few and split them.

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 (100) on Google

202 E Lancaster Ave First Floor

Bakers of Buffington

A longtime Downingtown bakery on East Lancaster Ave doing cakes, cookies, and pastries by the dozen. The counter has been a birthday-cake stop around here for years.

★★★★★★★★★★4.3 (175) on Google

131 E Lancaster Ave

Downingtown Diner

A Lancaster Avenue diner running the full breakfast-all-day playbook. Vinyl booths and a menu that goes on for pages.

★★★★★★★★★★4.3 (911) on Google

81 W Lancaster Ave

La Sponda

Italian restaurant on East Lancaster Avenue that leans special-occasion. Regulars put it near the top of Downingtown's Italian list.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (540) on Google

20 E Lancaster Ave

Sweet Aloha Bowls Downingtown

Acai and smoothie shop in the River Station development, bowls loaded with fruit and granola. A quick counter stop off the trail.

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 (71) on Google

200 River Station Blvd Ste 3

Pomod'oro Pizza and Italian Restaurant

Italian kitchen on Chestnut St with pizza, pasta, and the red-sauce classics. Sit-down dinners and takeout both.

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 (1.3k) on Google

200 Chestnut St

Evergreen Coffee Company

Coffee shop on Wallace Ave for espresso, drip, and a corner to sit in. Independent and Downingtown-based.

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 (275) on Google

102 Wallace Ave

Dublin Brewing Company

A small brewery on Wallace Ave, sharing a building with the Artisan Homebrew shop. Low-key and local, the kind of place you find because someone tipped you off.

★★★★★★★★★★3.6 (5) on Google

137 Wallace Ave

East Branch Brewing Company

Downingtown brewery on East Lancaster Ave pouring its own lineup in the taproom. Named for the East Branch of the Brandywine that runs through town.

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 (370) on Google

202 E Lancaster Ave

Bottle Room

A neighborhood bar on Lincoln Highway with a rotating tap list and a bottle selection wider than the room suggests. The kind of spot that fills up with regulars on a weeknight.

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 (123) on Google

209 Lincoln Hwy

Sweet Amelia's at R Five Wines

A wine bar on East Lancaster Avenue, the Downingtown home of Kennett Square's Sweet Amelia's inside R Five Wines. Small plates to go with whatever's open by the glass.

206 E Lancaster Ave

Chelsy's

Bar on E Lancaster Ave, right next door to the Juice Pod. A neighborhood spot for a drink after work more than a night out.

121 E Lancaster Ave

Boutique On Thirty

A women's clothing boutique on Lancaster Avenue, old Route 30, which is where the name comes from. Everyday pieces and going-out outfits, in a shop small enough that they remember what you bought last time.

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 (21) on Google

147 E Lancaster Ave

Ishq Perfumes

A small fragrance shop in Downingtown. The name is Urdu for love, which tells you the whole pitch.

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4 Leaf Framing

A custom picture-framing shop off Wallace Avenue, good for getting a jersey, a diploma, or your kid's watercolor done right. They'll walk you through mat and molding without rushing you out the door.

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 (43) on Google

131 Wallace Ave #8

Artisan Homebrew

The homebrew shop on Wallace Ave, stocked with grain, hops, yeast, and the gear to turn them into beer. Staff who will walk you through your first batch or your fiftieth.

137 Wallace Ave

Downingtown Vintage LLC

Antique and vintage furniture filling a storefront on W Lancaster Ave in Downingtown. Worth a slow browse if you want a piece with some history behind it.

68 W Lancaster Ave

Pook & Pook Inc.

An Americana auction house on Lancaster Avenue — folk art, antique furniture, stoneware, and redware, hundreds of lots at a time. Open weekdays 9 to 5, and nobody makes you hold a paddle.

463 E Lancaster Ave

Milky Way Farm & Chester Springs Creamery

A working 103-acre dairy farm run by the Matthews family for four generations, with Chester Springs Creamery scooping ice cream right on the property. Reservation-only farm tours in season, plus a fall pumpkin stretch when the fields open on weekends.

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 (868) on Google

521 E Uwchlan Ave

Samuel Tabas Memorial Park

Small memorial park off Race St, kept up by the borough. A patch of green for a quick break rather than a day out.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 (3) on Google

Race St

Sunnybrook Park

A small, low-key neighborhood park in Downingtown, the kind that mostly serves the blocks around it.

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St Anthony's Lodge & Swim Club

Italian-American social club on Church Street, with a swim club and a steady events calendar. A longtime Downingtown fixture, and home to Montesano Bros.

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 (137) on Google

259 Church St

Struble Trail

A paved 2.6 miles along the East Branch of the Brandywine, from Norwood Road at Kardon Park up to Dorlan Mill Road, named for county commissioner Robert Struble. The stretch between Dorlan Mill and Dowlin Forge Roads is a special-regulation artificial-lure trout area, so expect fly rods in the shallows.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (297) on Google

Norwood Road at Kardon Park

Downingtown Rock Gym

An indoor climbing gym on Acorn Lane, with walls and routes for first-timers on up through regulars. A rainy-day plan that actually gets you moving.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (139) on Google

462 Acorn Ln