4 Main Line Restaurants Named Among Best In Area

The Main Line is no stranger to great dining experiences. Some of the best establishments in the country area situated in areas such as Ardmore, Wayne, and Bryn Mawr.

But you might be wondering: where are the truly best dining spots in the area?

Some of them are right here on the Main Line, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The publication recently put out its list of the 25 top restaurants in the Philadelphia suburbs. Establishments from Princeton, N.J. to Delaware County, Pa. were included in the analysis.

The following Main Line eateries were included in the list:

TERESA'S NEXT DOOR, 124 N. Wayne Avenue, Wayne

This trendy Main Line locale has a wide variety of beers and options like the game burger, goat tacos, and mussels.

What began a decade ago as a Belgian bar with a novel Mexican twist has settled in, refined its Euro-taqueria bistro menu, and evolved into so much more than just a great beer bar.

RESTAURANT ALBA, 7 W. King Street, Malvern

Alba's dinner menu includes diverse antipasta, pasta with rabbit, boar, duck, and other unique options, and a "secondi" menu of fish like grouper and trout.

It’s all about the live fire at Sean and Kelly Weinberg’s Malvern oasis, where the aromatic wood grill and the flavors of Northern Italy pair with excellent service and great Piedmont wines for a refined rustic vibe that makes for one of the best overall dining experiences in the suburbs.

TIRED HANDS FERMENTARIA, 35 Cricket Terrace, Ardmore

This classy brewery also has excellent food options, including a famous burger with mustard, hummus plates, and more.

(No brewery has done more to put a suburban town on the national hipster map than Tired Hands, the iconoclastic producer of funky saisons and experimental “milkshake” IPAs that can incite blocks-long lines of beer geeks who’ve traveled from far and wide in hopes of scoring the latest release.

FRASCHETTA, 816 Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr

This BYOB offers authentic Italian cuisine, including braised oxtail ragu, chicken cotoletta, stuffed ravioli, and linguine with longneck mussels, and much more.

There are plenty of Italian restaurants cooking similar menus in the suburbs. But the food at the rustic Italian BYOB called Fraschetta is always interesting. Cacio e pepe, a dish Italian-born chef-owner Gianuluca Demontis has mastered in classic form at his Melograno downtown, appears at Fraschetta with the Pecorino-pepper sauce glossing ravioli filled with ricotta-fluffed mashed potatoes. Sparked by pickled red onions, they’re like Roman-style pierogi.

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