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Glenside

Two Regional Rail lines meet at one station, and a 1928 theater a few blocks up books national tours. Keswick Village handles the rest: breweries, storefronts you can walk between, a library that runs its own calendar. Arcadia's castle campus sits on the south side.

$476K typical home ~25 min rail to Center City Cheltenham and Abington school district

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Downtown GlensideMontgomery County Planning Commission, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Rooster's Glenside

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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.

4.7 (758) on Google

294 N Keswick Ave

Roberts Block Restaurant

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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.

4.3 (608) on Google

2 Roberts Ave

Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub

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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.

4.5 (831) on Google

2750 Limekiln Pike

The Village Diner

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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.

4.4 (637) on Google

299 Keswick Ave

Nagomi

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Japanese kitchen and sushi bar on North Keswick Avenue, a short walk from the Keswick Theatre. Closed Mondays, with takeout and delivery the rest of the week.

4.5 (513) on Google

256 N Keswick Ave

Asian Fusion Red House

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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.

3.3 (153) on Google

540 Mt Carmel Ave

Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria

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Sports bar and pizzeria that opened in 2007, with a takeout bottle shop added in 2015 stocking over 200 beers and a heated patio since 2022. Open 365 days a year, kitchen running late.

4.5 (624) on Google

2609 Mt Carmel Ave

Elcy's Cafe

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Coffee shop on West Glenside Avenue, open from 6:30 on weekday mornings and pouring Valley Green Coffee. Its site carries a Best of Glenside 2025 badge for best coffee and best coffee shop.

4.5 (288) on Google

1 W Glenside Ave

The Weldon Fountain

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A soda fountain on North Keswick that makes its own ice cream, dairy-free included, and spins the milkshakes by hand. Order-ahead ice cream pies come on homemade Oreo, graham cracker or nutter butter crusts.

4.7 (293) on Google

293 N Keswick Ave

The Highland Pub & Kitchen

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Glenside's American pub and kitchen, run by the K to Z Collective. Weekend brunch goes 10 to 3, happy hour runs weekdays 4 to 6, and eight TVs carry the game with the sound on.

4.1 (320) on Google

391 Highland Ave

Raven Cafe

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Coffee bar that opened in June 2026 inside The Dovetail at Glenside Lanes, pouring Philadelphia's Rival Bros. Their cold brew steeps over sixteen hours with organic French chicory.

5.0 (6) on Google

2256 Mt Carmel Ave

Cork Tavern

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A small neighborhood bar on Mt Carmel Avenue with no website of its own. Reviewers through mid-2026 mention piano nights and food service, after a stretch when the kitchen sat closed.

4.4 (78) on Google

2206 Mt Carmel Ave

Custom Picture Framer of Glenside

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Custom framing on North Keswick Avenue: the place you take the diploma, the concert poster, or the jersey that has been rolled up in a tube for years.

5.0 (36) on Google

249 N Keswick Ave #1

Keswick Jewelers Inc

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A jewelry designer on North Keswick Avenue, in the block of storefronts by the Keswick Theatre. Custom work rather than a mall case, and a clean five-star record across forty-odd reviews.

5.0 (41) on Google

253 N Keswick Ave

Kay’s Cigar Sensations

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A cigar shop on North Keswick Avenue, steps from the Keswick Theatre, with a review count well past a hundred that most storefronts this size never get.

4.8 (127) on Google

280 N Keswick Ave

Bailey Banks & Bob's

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A small independent jeweler on North Keswick Avenue, in the block of storefronts that runs up from Glenside Avenue. Cases, repairs, and not much of a website to check first.

5.0 (5) on Google

268 N Keswick Ave

Grin & Wear It LLC

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Custom t-shirts and printed apparel on North Keswick Avenue: team shirts, reunion shirts, and the batch of fifty a business orders for a weekend.

4.9 (15) on Google

108 N Keswick Ave

Baederwood Park

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One of Abington Township's public parks, on Highland Avenue in the Baederwood section of Glenside. Open to anyone, no ticket required.

4.3 (140) on Google

754 Highland Ave

The Royal, Where Music Lives

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A live music venue on South Easton Road in Glenside, and the name tells you the plan. Check the schedule before you make the drive, since what's on stage changes night to night.

4.9 (151) on Google

1 S Easton Rd

Arcadia University Theater

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Arcadia's campus theater on South Easton Road, home to the university's performing arts program and the student productions it stages during the school year.

4.9 (7) on Google

450 S Easton Rd

Ardsley Park

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Neighborhood park on Tennis Avenue in Ardsley, the kind of green space people walk to rather than drive to. No website, no gate, no admission.

4.4 (100) on Google

1001 Tennis Ave

Galerie Hamid

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An art gallery on New Street in Glenside, small and independently run rather than attached to a museum or a school.

5.0 (39) on Google

115 New St

artPOP Studio

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An independent art studio and event space on East Glenside Avenue, right on the main stretch through town.

5.0 (2) on Google

26 E Glenside Ave

Good questions

What is Glenside known for?

A 1928 theater books national tours a few blocks from the train platform, with two breweries and a castle campus inside the same square mile. Glenside has run its Fourth of July parade since 1904, so it knows what it is.

How far is Glenside from Philadelphia?

About 25 minutes by car, off-peak. By rail, Glenside station on SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown and Warminster lines reaches Center City in about 25 minutes. Two lines run through one station, and plenty of the inbound trains carry on through Center City to the airport.

Is Glenside walkable?

Mostly. Park once and the middle of town covers a lot on foot, though a few of our picks want a short drive. We score its main-street walk 4 out of 5; the Glenside scouting report shows how that compares to the other towns.

What county is Glenside, PA in?

Glenside is in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Nearby Montgomery County towns we cover: North Wales, Ambler, and Collegeville.

Is Glenside a good place to live?

That depends on what you want out here, so we keep a full Glenside scouting report for exactly this question. The quick numbers: a typical home runs about $476K, schools are Cheltenham and Abington School Districts, and 7,737 people call the census-designated place (Cheltenham and Abington townships) home.