Ardmore Asian Cafe
A small Chinese kitchen on East Spring Ave: pork dumplings, scallion pancakes, lo mein and fried rice, plus a Hong Kong wonton noodle soup. Pickup or delivery, and it shuts by early evening.
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The picks
- Ardmore Asian Cafe
- Bam Bam Kitchen
- Bikini Burger
- Bubba's Steaks and Shakes Bryn Mawr
- Chiangmai
- CHUMS Poke & Yogurt Bowl
- CJ’s Sweet Palace
- Conshy Corner Tavern
- Cork Tavern
- Cozy Lounge
- Dim Sum Factory - Bryn Mawr
- Dragon & Phoenix Express
- Eat Greek
- Ekta Indian Cuisine
- El Limon Conshohocken
- Elcy's Cafe
- Felicia's Pizza Kitchen
- Flanigan's Boathouse
- Flip & Bailey's
- Glenside Pizza
- The Glenside Pub
- Golden Bowl Ardmore
- The Great American Pub
- The Grog Grill
- Gullifty's
- Guppy's Good Times
- Hu's Kitchen?
- Humpty's Dumplings
- Jasper's Backyard
- Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
- Johnny's Pizza Bryn Mawr
- Kelly's Taproom
- Keswick Coffee House
- Las Frida's Mexican Kitchen
- Love & Honey Fried Chicken - Bryn Mawr, PA
- Lovebird
- Manorah
- MasterPeace Grill
- McSorley's Ale House
- Moonlight Diner
- Mr. Korea
- Nagomi
- New star Chinese Restaurant
- Nirvana Indian Bistro, Bryn Mawr
- Pho Street
- Pop's Steaks
- Raven Cafe
- Rick's Tavern
- Rusty Nail Tavern / Nightclub
- S&F Cafe
- SaiGon Noodle Kitchen
- Sesami
- Smokin’ Jim’s Roadside Smokehouse
- Tired Hands Fermentaria Tap Room
- Tony & Joe's Pizzeria
- UnCommon Grounds
- Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
- Vic's Sushi Rosemont
- The Village Diner
- The Weldon Fountain
- WIN WAH
- Yamazaki Ramen
- Yi's Boba
- Yu Noodles
Bam Bam Kitchen
Korean cooking on East Lancaster Avenue, from double fried chicken with your pick of sauce to bibimbap that comes out in a sizzling stone bowl if you eat in. Entrees arrive with the day's banchan.
Bikini Burger
Mia Robertson's burger shop on Rittenhouse Place builds its beef from a double ground blend of sirloin, brisket, rib eye and chuck, on a seeded Martin's roll with Cooper Sharp. Crinkle fries and shakes alongside.
Bubba's Steaks and Shakes Bryn Mawr
Cheesesteaks and milkshakes on Lancaster Ave, open every day from 11 to 9. Takeout, delivery or eat in, and they would rather you order direct through them than pay a delivery app's markup.
Chiangmai
A Thai kitchen on Fayette Street with curries and noodles for the table or the takeout bag. Next door to the block's other quick dinners, and holding its own.
CHUMS Poke & Yogurt Bowl
Yogurt bowls built on yogurt the shop cold-strains for 48 hours, topped with fresh fruit, granola and drizzles. The whole place runs on a two-tone cat mascot called Chummy. Poke bowls and skewers are at the Berwyn sibling, not here.
CJ’s Sweet Palace
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.
Conshy Corner Tavern
A corner tavern on East Hector where the regulars have a stool and the taps stay cold. The kind of neighborhood room where one after work turns into three.
Cork Tavern
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.
Cozy Lounge
A late-night spot on Lancaster Ave serving food and soft drinks, open to 1 a.m. on weeknights and later on Friday and Saturday. Built for grown-ups winding down after work rather than a college crowd.
Dim Sum Factory - Bryn Mawr
The Bryn Mawr branch of the Tom's Dim Sum family that started in Philadelphia's Chinatown, cooking Shanghai and Cantonese dim sum. Soup dumplings, pan-fried pork dumplings and scallion pancakes.
Dragon & Phoenix Express
Neighborhood Chinese on Fayette Street, geared for takeout and delivery. The order-the-usual spot for a Friday night on the couch.
Eat Greek
A Greek and Mediterranean spot on East 1st Avenue, gyros and grilled plates for takeout or a quick sit-down. Fast, filling, and unfussy.
Ekta Indian Cuisine
Indian kitchen in the small run of shops on West Lancaster Ave, and the only one of the four Ektas outside the city. Curries, biryani and mango lassi, with pickup and delivery inside a five-mile radius.
El Limon Conshohocken
A Mexican taqueria on Spring Mill Avenue running tacos, burritos, and the rest of the standards. A busy everyday option a few steps off Fayette.
Elcy's Cafe
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.
Felicia's Pizza Kitchen
Pizza on West Lancaster Avenue, run as a takeout counter with a handful of seats. The house special stacks spinach, fresh tomato and garlic on a thin crust.
Flanigan's Boathouse
A three-story American bar and grill on Fayette Street, a short walk from the train station. Wings, burgers, and a long bar make it a Conshohocken game-day standby.
Flip & Bailey's
Two-story neighborhood bar in Garrett Hill with a full bar on each floor and rotating drafts. Pool, shuffleboard, darts, Pac-Man and Golden Tee if you want something to do between rounds.
Glenside Pizza
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.
The Glenside Pub
A downtown Glenside barroom with 14 taps, nine big-screen TVs and homemade soups on the daily specials board. Doors open at 4pm, and it sits a mile from Arcadia and 1.3 from the Keswick Theatre.
Golden Bowl Ardmore
Hong Kong style Chinese on Rittenhouse Place, open seven days and set up for pickup as much as for the dining room. Crystal shrimp dumplings, roast duck, big bowl noodle soups, and a whole page of smoothies.
The Great American Pub
A Fayette Street pub in the middle of the strip, with a long bar and a kitchen backing it up. The kind of corner where a weeknight beer turns into dinner and two more.
The Grog Grill
A pub on West Lancaster Avenue where the kitchen runs burgers, shepherd's pie, poutine and cheesesteaks until 9:30pm and the bar keeps going to 2am Thursday through Saturday.
Gullifty's
A Lancaster Avenue bar and grill going since 1975, known for hand-tossed pizza, burgers and wings, with the soups, sauces, dressings, desserts and even the ice cream made in house.
Guppy's Good Times
A Maple Street pub with a long menu that swings from bar food to sushi rolls. Big enough for a birthday crowd, loose enough for a beer after work.
Hu's Kitchen?
Locally owned Chinese kitchen on Lancaster Avenue, set up for eating in or carrying out. The counter leads with handmade pan-fried pork buns and braised beef noodle soup, and there is a points program if you order often enough to care.
Humpty's Dumplings
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.
Jasper's Backyard
An American bar and grill built around the backyard it's named for, with room to spread out over a beer when the weather turns. One of the bigger outdoor scenes in Conshy.
Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
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.
Johnny's Pizza Bryn Mawr
Brooklyn-style pizza on the Main Line: square pies built on hand-crushed plum tomato sauce and pecorino, plus hand-tossed thin-crust rounds. The cheesesteak comes on a seeded long roll, and the 20-inch Monster size carries better than a pound of ribeye.
Kelly's Taproom
A Villanova-crowd pub on the site of the old Ivy Inn, run since 2002 by a group of alumni, with a taxidermied Maine moose watching the room since the 2005 reopening and happy hour weekdays from 4.
Keswick Coffee House
Organic coffee, pastries, ice cream and water ice on North Keswick Avenue, with free wifi and a room built for lingering. It stays open later than usual on most Keswick Theatre show nights.
Las Frida's Mexican Kitchen
Street-style Mexican named for Frida Kahlo, with breakfast on the menu and the doors open at 10 a.m. sharp. The fish tacos come on blue corn tortillas.
Love & Honey Fried Chicken - Bryn Mawr, PA
The Bryn Mawr counter of Todd and Laura Lyons' fried chicken shop, hand-breaded and fried to order. The Nashville Hot sandwich carries three sweet pickles so there is one in every bite, which tells you how the kitchen thinks.
Lovebird
Fried chicken sandwiches from the people behind Jules Thin Crust, made with Gerber's Amish Farm chicken. The Nashville Hot with hand-cut fries and a cup of Spiced Local Honey settles the lunch question.
MasterPeace Grill
A Fayette Street sandwich counter turning out cheesesteaks and hoagies to a loyal lunch crowd. Order at the counter, grab a number, take it to go.
McSorley's Ale House
A Haverford Road sports bar with 16 taps and better than 30 beers in total, plus dart boards, pool tables and TVs on every game. Family run, and loud once the college crowd arrives.
Moonlight Diner
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.
New star Chinese Restaurant
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.
Nirvana Indian Bistro, Bryn Mawr
The Bryn Mawr room of a six-location Indian kitchen, and the one location of the six with a liquor license, with a $10 corkage fee if you bring a bottle anyway. The menu runs past tikka masala into Nepali steamed momos.
Pho Street
A Vietnamese kitchen on the west end of Lancaster Ave, working through pho, banh mi and summer rolls. It keeps no website of its own, so the phone is the only way to check hours before you go.
Pop's Steaks
Cheesesteaks and sandwiches at the Fayette Street corner, wrapped and handed over fast. A short menu done the way a steak shop should.
Raven Cafe
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.
Rick's Tavern
A neighborhood tavern up on West 7th Avenue, away from the Fayette Street crowds, pouring drinks with a plate of Italian on the side. The kind of corner spot regulars treat like a second kitchen.
Rusty Nail Tavern / Nightclub
A live music room on Haverford Road that has been booking bands for more than 70 years. Thursday is the open jam, Friday and Saturday go to local original acts, and the calendar is posted months ahead.
SaiGon Noodle Kitchen
A small Vietnamese noodle kitchen on Fayette Street, steam rising off the bowls. Counter-serve and quick, the kind of lunch that ruins you for the chain down the block.
Smokin’ Jim’s Roadside Smokehouse
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.
Tired Hands Fermentaria Tap Room
Tired Hands' production brewery since 2015, 13,000 square feet with a tap room and a General Store attached. This is where Hop Hands comes from, and where the Milkshake IPA got invented alongside Sweden's Omnipollo.
Tony & Joe's Pizzeria
A Fayette Street pizzeria doing red-sauce Italian and pies by the slice or the tray. Family-run, built for delivery, dinner, and a Friday-night box on the counter.
UnCommon Grounds
The cafe in the Campus Center at Bryn Mawr College, with coffee out front and a short-order kitchen doing sandwiches, salads, quesadillas, burgers and pizza. Hours move with the academic calendar.
Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
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.
Vic's Sushi Rosemont
Benny and Eric have been making sushi since 1998, and this Rosemont storefront is their newest counter. Benny is up at 5am to pick the fish at the New York markets. Closed Sundays.
The Village Diner
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.
The Weldon Fountain
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.
WIN WAH
A Chinese kitchen on lower Fayette Street working the takeout and delivery standards. The reliable answer to a night nobody wants to cook.
Yamazaki Ramen
A ramen counter on West Lancaster Avenue working in shoyu and tonkotsu broths, topped with chashu pork belly, soft-boiled egg, bamboo shoots and scallions.
Yu Noodles
Sichuan noodle shop on East Lancaster Ave, built on Chongqing noodles, Szechwan beef noodle soup and pork soup dumplings. There is a cold noodle section too, and homemade mango pomelo sago for dessert.
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