The Best Restaurants in Downingtown
Most of Downingtown's best dinners sit within a mile of Lancaster Avenue. We ranked the mile.
Downingtown's best mile turns up a scratch-cooking new arrival down at River Station, a Greek BYOB where the wine list lives in your own kitchen, and red sauce inside an Italian-American lodge. We ranked our ten the way locals actually argue them, so somebody's favorite is missing. If that somebody is you, take it up with the mile.
The Noble Goat
American plates cooked from scratch down at River Station, with a bar to match. One of the newer dining rooms in town, and it walked straight to the top of this list.
La Sponda
The special-occasion Italian on East Lancaster Avenue, the room for when the date matters. Regulars already put it near the top of Downingtown's Italian list; we see no reason to argue.
Myrtos BYOB
Greek taverna cooking on Lancaster Avenue, souvlaki through moussaka, and the wine is whatever you carried in. Your bottle, their moussaka — a fair trade.
Station Taproom
A small room by the train station with a rotating tap list and a burger regulars will argue about. Yes, it's a beer bar; that burger is why it's on a restaurant list.
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Tacos and Mexican plates on East Lancaster, under a sign that's all lowercase with a period on the end. Order a few and split them — that's the whole system.
The Borough
American cooking with a full bar and a proper sit-down pace on East Lancaster Avenue. For the nights that call for an actual table, not another takeout bag.
Anthony's Cucina Fresca
Pastas and red-sauce classics from a longtime Lancaster Avenue kitchen that's outlasted plenty of trends. Staying power like that isn't an accident.
Montesano Bros at St. Anthony's Lodge
The Montesano brothers run a red-sauce kitchen out of St. Anthony's Lodge on Church Street. Dinner inside the Italian-American club is exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
Seven Tap-Tavern
Burgers, wings, and a full bar at the Downingtown Golf Club tavern, no tee time required. The back patio earns its keep when the weather cooperates.
Coffee Cup Restaurant
Old-school diner on East Lancaster with booths, a counter, and a menu that runs eggs to club sandwiches. Breakfast is all-day and the coffee is bottomless — the two facts that matter.
