Bucks County

Perkasie

A cigar-factory town that lost its Main Street to fire in 1988 and only in the last few years started to look like a downtown again. The 1951 carousel at Menlo Park still turns about a dozen times a year, Rams Pint House runs the county's first rooftop bar, and the Saturday farmers market at 7th and Market never stopped being the real town square.

$450K typical home No train we say so up front Pennridge school district

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Country Place Restaurant

Family-owned restaurant and bar that's been at it in Perkasie for 50 years, with a menu that ranges from steaks and seafood to baked ziti. Sunday breakfast, served 7:30 to noon, has its own following.

4.4 (2k) on Google

1007 Route 313

Stewart's Arch Street Deli

A family-run counter in Perkasie's Olde Towne where the breakfast sandwich comes standard with two eggs and two slices of cheese, the meat and the bread left up to you. Come lunch, the cheesesteak is what the regulars are actually there for.

4.8 (135) on Google

621 Arch St

Maize Restaurant

A New American BYOB where chef-owner Matt McPhelin has run 4- and 8-course tasting menus since 2008, rewritten daily around whatever's fresh that week. Bring your own bottle, there's no corking fee, and plan on two hours at the table.

4.7 (359) on Google

519 W Walnut St

Sheung Garden

The Chinese spot in the Glenwood Shopping Center — Hunan beef, Szechuan shrimp, and moo goo gai pan on the menu. Closed Mondays.

4.3 (125) on Google

1135 N 5th St

Nourish Kitchen & Catering

A small kitchen on Market Street that writes its meals-to-go menu fresh every morning, from soups to a chicken salad regulars plan their lunch around. Vegan and gluten-free options are built in rather than tacked on, which is rarer out here than it should be.

619 W Market St

C & C Cafe

A breakfast-and-lunch counter that's been family-run since 2008 and only opens Friday through Sunday, 8 to 2. The stuffed French toast is the reason to set a weekend alarm; the omelettes and hoagies carry the rest of the ticket.

609 W Market St

Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern

Twenty beers on draft and a wall of takeout bottles, in a room that's been a bar since the days it went by the Mayflower Restaurant. Show up for an Eagles Sunday and there's usually a free buffet or pizza going while the game's on.

4.2 (94) on Google

518 W Walnut St

Van Lieus Brewing

Named for Van Lieus Road in Ringoes, New Jersey, where the family ran a basement nano before taking over a converted Texaco station on West Walnut in October 2023. The board leans traditional — Kolsch, ESB, Irish stout on nitro — right next to the hazy IPAs everyone else is chasing.

211 W Walnut St

Free Will Brewing

Free Will has been barrel-aging sours, saisons, and stouts in a 35,000-square-foot Walnut Street facility since 2012, with 15 rotating taps and a barrel house out back. Food trucks park Thursday through Sunday and there's live music Friday and Saturday nights, but you can always haul in your own dinner.

410 E Walnut St #1

So Fresh So Green Cafe

Cold-pressed juices and whole-food smoothies that took Bucks County's best-drinks title in 2023, out of a Black-owned counter on 7th Street. It started as a stall at the Perkasie farmers market and still turns up there in season, now with a coffee-and-breakfast menu you can sit down to.

1 N 7th St

Pennridge Beverage

A Perkasie beer distributor working the same 2nd Street corner for more than 40 years, aisles running from stacked domestic cases to a wall of craft. Build your own mixed six-pack or haul out a full case for the weekend.

113 S 2nd St

Threddies

A Perkasie shop that's been making scrunchies and hair elastics in 20-plus colors since 1999, sold at wholesale-to-the-public prices. Buy by the bag for the whole cheer squad, or grab a pair of their USA-made slouch socks while you're there.

4.4 (87) on Google

510 W Walnut St #1

Re:Vivals Thrift

A nonprofit thrift shop in the 1922 Freed Glass building on Perkasie's Glassworks Campus, a once-dead building brought back by hundreds of volunteers. Every dollar of proceeds goes to Revivals' twenty-plus programs and ministries.

4.8 (35) on Google

520 West Callowhill Street

Walnut St. Pottery

Handmade pottery thrown from clay dug out of the local ground, sold off a roadside stand on E. Walnut instead of a gallery. Open most days from 8:30 until dusk, cash or Venmo, weather permitting.

106 E Walnut St

Landis Supermarket

Frank Landis started this grocery in Telford in 1938, and three generations later the same family still runs it; the Perkasie store opened in the Perkasie Square Shopping Center in 1994. Come for Mrs. Benner's scratch-made bakery and a butcher counter that still cuts to order.

543 Constitution Ave

Stag Artisan Coffee

Ryan hand-roasts small-batch coffee in Suite 7 on East Walnut Street and sells it by the bag, not the cup — a beans operation, not a café. Order online; the LOCAL20 code knocks 20 percent off if you pick up in Perkasie.

4.6 (2.2k) on Google

410 E Walnut St

Perkasie Farmers Market

Saturday mornings on S. 7th Street, 9 to noon, rain or shine, early June through Halloween. The week's vendor lineup posts to @perkasiefarmersmarket before each market.

S 7th Street

Menlo Aquatics Center

Perkasie's borough pool has anchored Menlo Park since 1939, rebuilt in 2007 with a lazy river and a drop slide off the 13-foot deep end. Day passes run $11 to $32, it's open noon to eight all summer, and members get the lanes to themselves for 7am laps before the gates open.

4.4 (260) on Google

425 Arthur Ave

WPA Twin Bridges

Two white suspension footbridges the WPA strung across Lake Lenape in 1938, modeled on the same Roebling design behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Roughly 500 feet of towers and cable over the creek, and still the only suspension bridges anywhere in Pennridge.

4.8 (8) on Google

Unnamed Road

Mood's Covered Bridge

An 1874 covered bridge over the Perkiomen's northeast branch, burned by arson in 2004 and rebuilt in period lattice-truss style, reopening in February 2008. One salvaged piece of the original truss is built into the new frame, and it still carries about 2,000 cars a day just outside town.

4.8 (26) on Google

Blooming Glen Rd

Perkasie Historical Society

Volunteers have kept Perkasie's history since 1954, with a museum wedged into a former Lehigh Valley Transit trolley station on Walnut Street that opens weekend afternoons, May through December. They also look after the 1832 South Perkasie covered bridge and the Menlo Park carousel, where a ride still runs fifty cents.

5.0 (8) on Google

513 W Walnut St

Kulp Park

Six new pickleball courts, a kiddie wading pool, and a playground, all strung along the East Branch Perkiomen creek where the greenway trail runs. Bring the kids for the pool in July, or come for a paddle game and stay for the walk by the water.

21 S 2nd St

Menlo Park

The carousel here has been spinning since Perkasie families first pooled their money for one in 1891, and the current Allan Herschell model has run since 1951. Come summer there's a public pool and a playground with a zip line, but the merry-go-round is the reason you drive over.

Arthur Ave

Good questions

What is Perkasie known for?

A town park with its own covered bridge, Pennridge housing money that still goes somewhere, and a downtown quietly refilling with places worth a stop.

How far is Perkasie from Philadelphia?

About 55 minutes by car, off-peak. No Regional Rail, so Doylestown or Lansdale stations are roughly 25 minutes by car.

Is Perkasie walkable?

Partly. There is a walkable stretch, but plan on driving between some stops. We score its main-street walk 3 out of 5; the Perkasie scouting report shows how that compares to the other towns.

What county is Perkasie, PA in?

Perkasie is in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Nearby Bucks County towns we cover: Yardley, Sellersville, and Newtown.

Is Perkasie a good place to live?

That depends on what you want out here, so we keep a full Perkasie scouting report for exactly this question. The quick numbers: a typical home runs about $450K, schools are Pennridge School District, and 9,120 people call the borough home.