Where to eat in Coatesville

Alquisiras Restaurant

Mexican kitchen on Lincoln Highway East in Coatesville. Start with the tacos, then work down the rest of the menu.

735 Lincoln Hwy E

Antojitos Criollos Puertorriqueños

Real-deal Puerto Rican cooking from a takeout counter on Strode Avenue: mofongo (mashed plantains, garlic, pork rinds), arroz con gandules, chuleta frita. Closed Sundays and Mondays, so plan the mofongo run for midweek.

170 Strode Ave

Bada Bing Steaks & Pizza

Takeout steaks-and-pizza shop on Route 340 across from Layton Park, where the Bada Bing Beast turns the house Italian sub into a pizza. Weekday lunch brings a slice deal, and there's a carryout happy hour on pizza from 4 to 6.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (64) on Google

691 W Kings Hwy

The Butter Pecan Cafe

The Butter Pecan Cafe works the sweet end of Lincoln Highway in Coatesville. The name points straight at the sweet tooth.

228 Lincoln Hwy E

Coates Chicken

A small chicken-and-takeout counter on Lincoln Highway East, no frills to it. Newer to the strip, and built for carrying it home.

713 Lincoln Hwy E

Coatesville Community Market

Coatesville Community Market is an Indian restaurant on Lincoln Highway. Curries and biryani off the Route 30 strip.

266 Lincoln Hwy E

Compare's Pizza

Compare's works the pizza-and-hoagie counter at 657 Lincoln Highway East. Newer to the block, and set up for a box on the way home.

657 Lincoln Hwy E

Crazy Over You Cakes

A cake bakery on South 8th doing custom and celebration orders. Where the neighborhood goes when the occasion calls for something better than a grocery-store sheet cake.

79 S 8th Ave

Cugino's Deli

West Kings Highway deli counter for sandwiches and salads, with pizza on the board too.

691 W Kings Hwy

Double D Diner

A no-fuss Lincoln Highway diner running breakfast through dinner, seven days a week, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. One regular on the diner's own testimonial page has eaten a lifetime of ham-and-cheese omelettes and ranks this one near the top.

1323 Lincoln Hwy E

Gaby's Pizza

Gaby's Pizza is a pizza shop on the east end of Lincoln Highway. Slices and pies to go.

715 Lincoln Hwy E

The Hungry Pilot

A bar and grill inside the terminal at Chester County Airport — order the short-rib Runway Flatbread or the French Onion Smashburger and watch the planes take off. Kids get their own Little Pilot's menu, which explains the number of small aviation fans at the window tables.

1 Earhart Dr Ste 3

Jack's Pizza & Pasta

The east side's counter for pizza, cheesesteaks, and pastas, with a Caesar salad the shop itself calls a house favorite. Order online and there's a loyalty program for the once-a-week crowd.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 (976) on Google

1948 E Lincoln Hwy

Jam Rock Caribbean Cuisine

Jamaican and Caribbean plates on Lincoln Highway in Coatesville, from jerk chicken wings to homemade soups. Order takeout or delivery and eat it wherever suits you.

144 Lincoln Hwy E

Kings Tavern

The tavern on West Kings Highway runs on craft beer and a house creed worth quoting: locals treated like royalty, visitors treated like locals. The kitchen keeps things American, from wings to steak and seafood, with dinner specials that rotate through the week.

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 (748) on Google

313 W Kings Hwy

La Tortuguita Dorada

La Tortuguita Dorada is a small Mexican spot at 136 Lincoln Highway East, with ordering handled through a tidy Square site. Worth a stop for the tacos.

136 Lincoln Hwy E

Lily's Pizza & Pasta

Pizza-and-pasta shop out on the east end of Lincoln Highway, where the sauces are homemade and the specials change daily. The homepage lists three phone numbers; any of them gets you a pie.

2707 E Lincoln Hwy

Lincoln Diner

The west-end diner on Lincoln Highway, open every day 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Order direct through their site and they knock 10 percent off — they'll even deliver, seven days a week.

1202 W Lincoln Hwy

Lincoln Pizza & Pasta

Lincoln Pizza & Pasta runs the pizza-and-pasta menu at 657 Lincoln Highway East. Slices up front, dinner plates if you sit down.

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 (33) on Google

657 Lincoln Hwy E

Little Anthony's Pizza & Grille

One of three family-run pizza shops — this is the 1837 East Lincoln Highway location, with a sibling at the Sadsbury end of the same road. Pizza, strombolis, hoagies, and wings, open to 11 on Fridays and Saturdays.

1837 E Lincoln Hwy

Little Chef

Little Chef is the family diner on Strode Avenue and a longtime Coatesville breakfast fixture. Big breakfasts and a lunch counter that stays busy.

152 Strode Ave

Mariano's Towne East Deli

Mariano's Towne East Deli builds sandwiches at 717 Lincoln Highway East. A hoagie counter for the lunch run, no website required.

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 (35) on Google

717 Lincoln Hwy E

Milton's Pizza & Pasta

The Airport Road pizzeria working the full Italian-American canon: hand-tossed Neapolitan rounds, thick square Sicilians, and a menu that runs from a no-cheese Naples tomato pie to the pepperoni-sausage-prosciutto Tre Carni. Pasta dinners arrive with a small tossed salad and bread.

108 Airport Rd

New China King Asian Bistro

New China King runs the Chinese-takeout menu at 710 Lincoln Highway East in Coatesville. A standard bistro board, quick out the door.

★★★★★★★★★★4.1 (119) on Google

710 Lincoln Hwy E

Paleteria & Botanas El Nevado

Paletería & Botanas El Nevado does Mexican paletas, the fruit-and-cream popsicles, plus botanas and snacks. The kind of cold treat that earns a summer walk over.

Coatesville

Richie's Water Ice & Ice cream

Water ice and soft serve on Lincoln Highway, the Philly-summer standard. Order a gelati and you get both layered in one cup.

332 Lincoln Hwy E

Stottsville Inn

The roadside inn on Strasburg Road, bought in 2017 and remade into a restaurant, bar, and nine-room hotel. Burgers come off a wood-fired grill, the kitchen works from scratch, and happy hour runs Tuesday through Sunday, 4 to 6.

3512 Strasburg Rd

Taqueria El Korita Birria y pastor

Taqueria El Korita builds its menu around birria and al pastor, on the east end of Lincoln Highway in Coatesville. Tacos and consomé for dipping.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (16) on Google

809 Lincoln Hwy E

Taste & Tell Cafe

Soul food on S 1st Avenue that keeps evening hours — the kitchen runs 3 to 11 every night but Sunday. Chicken, fish, and burgers up front; the collards and cabbage already have fans on the record.

374 S 1st Ave

Tastebudz on 82

Soul food takeout on Mount Airy Road, with party wings and finger foods under a 'Food for the Soul' banner. It runs Wednesday through Sunday, so plan the wing order accordingly.

255 S Mount Airy Rd Bldg 3

Venice Pizza & Pasta

West-end pizzeria doing pies, pasta, and the cheesesteaks at least one out-of-state family plans its PA trips around. Ordering runs through its online menu site.

1131 W Lincoln Hwy

Victoria's Pizza

Takeout pizza shop on the east end of Lincoln Highway, with burgers and pasta filling out the menu. Order through the apps and it's still the shop's own staff at your door.

715 E Lincoln Hwy

The Village Bowl Restaurant

West African cooking on a weekly rotation — jollof rice, attieke, and cassava leaf every day, torborgee on Wednesdays, peanut soup on Saturdays. Wash it down with bissap or ginger beer, and don't leave without a puff puff.

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 (50) on Google

2348 Lincoln Hwy

VR Pizzaria

VR Pizzaria is a takeout pizza shop on Lincoln Highway in Coatesville. Order a pie, grab it, and go.

717 Lincoln Hwy E

The Whip Tavern

A proper English pub out in southern Chester County horse country, pouring rotating drafts against weekend features like classic roast beef with Yorkshire pudding. Sunday brunch runs 10 to 2, and the whole place goes dark on Tuesdays.

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 (1.8k) on Google

1383 N Chatham Rd

Willy's Family Restaurant

Family-style diner on Lincoln Highway East, the all-day-menu kind. Come for breakfast, or come at two in the afternoon and order breakfast anyway.

734 Lincoln Hwy E