152 Public House Restaurant and Bar
Bar and restaurant on Limekiln Pike, serving Lew's Seafood. Brunch runs 11am to 3pm Saturday and Sunday, and there's a separate late night menu from 9pm to 10:30pm Thursday through Saturday.
The restaurants and kitchens locals actually argue about.
Three straight years of Gold for Best Italian in the Inquirer's Philly Favorites, which is a regional field and not a Glenside one, plus the town's own vote for Best BYOB in 2019 and again in 2025.
Fifty-three Google reviews and 822 on Resy, which tells you who actually eats here: people who booked a table and drove in for it.
Four categories in the 2025 town vote, more than any other restaurant took: date night, cocktails, outdoor dining and the espresso martini.
The only Glenside kitchen with a name outside Montgomery County: Best of Philly from Philadelphia magazine, best food at Bonnaroo from Rolling Stone, and one of just three food businesses that magazine bothered to name in its Glenside guide.
Forty-five years on East Glenside Avenue, and the hometown paper has written up the 40th, the 42nd and the 44th anniversaries, which is attention nobody buys.
The one proper Greek dinner in town, run by a family from Agrinio who make their own spanakopita dough rather than open a box of phyllo.
Best Wings and Best Beer List in 2019, then Best Wings and Best Beer List again in 2025, which is six years of the town refusing to change its mind.
Twenty-five years of Greek-style pan pizza and close to two million a year in sales without taking a single order through DoorDash or Uber Eats, which is why both national pizza trade magazines wrote it up.
Best Breakfast in 2019 and Best Breakfast again in 2025, and the top-ranked Glenside room on Tripadvisor, which almost never happens to a diner.
Took the artisan pizza category in the 2025 vote on the strength of one thing: a square thin crust with chunky sauce and light mozzarella that nobody else in town attempts.
Bar and restaurant on Limekiln Pike, serving Lew's Seafood. Brunch runs 11am to 3pm Saturday and Sunday, and there's a separate late night menu from 9pm to 10:30pm Thursday through Saturday.
Edge Hill Road pizzeria with a menu that keeps going: K&J Famous Pizza on dough made fresh daily, stuffed and Sicilian pies, cheesesteaks, gyros, and Fat sandwiches that pack fries and mozzarella sticks into the roll.
Chinese and Japanese on one menu on Mt Carmel Ave: lo mein and hibachi dinners, a sushi bar, and a dim sum page at the front. Takeout and delivery, open until 11 on Friday and Saturday.
Indian cooking with a Nepali streak. Butter chicken and biryani share the menu with lamb choila and chicken sekuwa, both served with puffed rice, and the kitchen will do vegan or gluten-free versions on request. BYOB.
Double Angus patties on a brioche roll, from owners who spent 30 years in the food business before opening in Glenside. Birria tacos with brisket and hand-dipped milkshakes sit on the same menu.
A small licensed family bakery whose name is the Welsh word for love. The shortbread list carries a Bakewell Tart with dried cherries and a coffee and walnut version built on espresso beans, sold by the dozen and at a monthly cookie table on N. Tyson Ave.
Water ice is the headline here and ice cream plays second, with soft pretzels, funnel cake, milkshakes and cookies filling out the rest of the counter. Hours run seasonal and get posted week to week on their Instagram.
Counter bakery on N Keswick Avenue turning out donuts and danish, with breakfast sandwiches and coffee alongside and custom cakes made to order. There is no website, so the phone is how you reach them.
Family run for eleven years, by their own count, and the menu goes well past scoops: gelati layered however you ask for it, water ice, vegan and sugar free pints, plus sundaes built around the Eagles and the Phillies.
Greek and Mediterranean cooking on Keswick Avenue, a sit-down dinner house that takes reservations by phone and keeps a separate takeout menu. Elia is Greek for olive tree.
A deli and a bottle shop in one, with hoagies like the Italian Stallion built to order and fresh-tapped growlers to carry out. The Giulianos opened it in 1982 and the McManuses took over in 2022.
Greek style pan pizza, baked in oiled pans for a crisp bottom and an airy middle, from a family that has run the shop in Keswick Village since 2001. Cheesesteaks come on Liscio's rolls.
Dumplings from a Keswick Village storefront, filled with anything from pork and ginger to chip steak and American cheese. It started in 2014, and they run a dollar each on Wednesdays.
Chinese kitchen on South Easton Road whose menu reaches past the usual: Phnom Penh noodle soup and Angkhor Wat shrimp sit next to General Tso's and lo mein. Lunch specials run 11 to 3.
Dinner-only Mediterranean kitchen on East Glenside Avenue from the owner of Dua in Bryn Mawr, drawing on Italy, Greece, Albania and Spain. BYOB, reservations through Resy, and a dress code that rules out hoodies and ball caps.
A breakfast-first diner on Limekiln Pike, doing the standard griddle and egg menu at diner prices. It keeps no website of its own, so call ahead if you want the hours confirmed.
Breakfast and lunch counter in the Ardsley Station building, running on Rival Bros. coffee and focaccia baked in house. Egg and cheese in the morning, herb chicken salad and a chipotle chicken club by noon.
Chinese takeout counter in the Glenside Avenue strip, just over the Wyncote line. The menu sticks to the standards: lo mein, egg foo young, mei fun and a page of chef's specials.
Sushi bar and Chinese kitchen under one roof on North Keswick, where a bento box and a plate of sesame chicken come off the same lunch menu. Reservations go through a form on their site or by phone.
American kitchen and bar right at Glenside Station, built out with barn wood, antique marble and old La Salle High School bleachers. The Block Yard out back runs Thursday trivia and live music on Friday and Saturday.
Forty-five years on East Glenside Avenue, run by Joe and Clem along with Donna. Breakfast platters and the Rock 'O' Muffin until 11, then cheesesteaks, hoagies and homemade salads the rest of the day.
An American pub on North Keswick, named for Danny Moyer, the Glenside resident friends and family called Rooster. Brunch runs both weekend mornings and live music turns up on the calendar. One of seven Stove & Co kitchens.
Pulled pork, ribs and mac and cheese out of a takeout window at Edge Hill Tavern. Jim Andruskiewicz and Patricia Delamere have been smoking here since June 2021, and they open one night a week.
A soft pretzel bakery on North Easton Road that opens early. Philly-style twists and mini strips are the counter staples, with nuggets sold by the 20, 50 or 100 and party trays for a crowd.
Brooklyn style pizza and fresh pasta from Joe Burke Jr., who cooks alongside his father Joe Sr. Family run for more than 15 years, BYOB, and a short walk from the Keswick.
The namesake tomato pie is a square thin crust with light mozzarella and chunky tomato sauce. The rest of the menu runs long: round and Sicilian pies, cutlet sandwiches, salads by the half tray. BYOB, with delivery.
Wings and crisp pierogies are what this Limekiln Pike pub leads with, backed by a craft and import beer list. Open to midnight seven days, and it sends out catering trays for parties.
A Keswick Avenue diner that keeps daylight hours, 8 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon, seven days a week. Breakfast and lunch, and then the lights go off.
A new pizza and steaks counter on South Easton Road, running on family recipes. The Drunken Chicken Cutlet is the one that gets posted: crispy cutlets, house vodka sauce, mozzarella, baked until melty. Smashburgers too.
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