Restaurants in Horsham Township: New Openings to Explore

Drive down Horsham Road past the intersection with County Line and you'll notice the sign first. For almost two years, the building at 575 Horsham Road sat dark, the parking lot empty except for a few cars belonging to whoever was checking on the place. It used to be Farm and Fisherman Tavern, a farm-driven restaurant that chefs Josh and Colleen Lawler ran with chef Todd Fuller for seven years before it closed suddenly in July 2024. It had the kind of following that makes a closing sting. Then, this past spring and summer, the sign changed, the parking lot filled back up, and Scratch Kitchen by Gallo's opened its doors.

That single storefront tells you something about what's actually happening to Horsham's restaurant scene this year. This year's openings include long-running family operations, some with decades of experience in the Philadelphia area.

The Space That Sat Empty for Two Years

Farm and Fisherman's closure left a real gap. Township officials confirmed the site had sat vacant since the restaurant shut its doors, and for a stretch of nearly two years, one of Horsham Road's most recognizable addresses had nothing in it. That's a long time for a well-regarded restaurant space to sit dark in a township with steady daily traffic on both of its main corridors.

What filled it was Gallo's Seafood, a family that has been running restaurants in Northeast Philadelphia since 1966, first at its original seafood house and later at Harv's Burger Bar. Scratch Kitchen by Gallo's, led by chef Bob DeLange, held its soft opening the weekend of May 31, still waiting on its liquor license at the time. The menu leans into what the Gallo family has always done well: a raw bar, smash burgers, hand-cut steaks, seafood, and pasta. As Horsham Now reported, township officials were "delighted they chose Horsham Township for their new concept."

The reopening restores a dining option to a prominent Horsham Road address.

The Names Filling In Around It

Gallo's isn't the only legacy name landing in Horsham this year. A few miles away on Easton Road, the old Red Lion Diner had been closed for months before reopening under new ownership as Horsham Family Restaurant. The new owner and head chef, Pasa Ozturk, brings more than 35 years of experience in New American cuisine to the location at 1520 Easton Road, and the restaurant now runs seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., serving everything from Belgian waffles to seafood and steaks.

Down the road, Buona Sera Italian Restaurant opened as a BYOB spot at 537 Easton Road with a family-style menu of pasta, seafood, chicken, and veal, plus banquet space for private events. Over on Horsham Road, in the Horsham Point Shopping Center at the intersection with Dresher Road, Wok N' Roll Asian Cuisine opened offering Chinese and Japanese dishes with pickup, takeout, and delivery. Horsham's township manager and council members made a point of visiting both new restaurants in person, which isn't the kind of thing that happens when a township treats new businesses as interchangeable.

Put those four openings next to each other and a pattern shows up that a single new restaurant wouldn't reveal. Together, they add more choice across Horsham's dining scene.

Where That Leaves the Restaurant Map

Horsham doesn't have one strip you'd point to and call the food street. What it has instead is two corridors doing different jobs.

That split matters if you're deciding where to grab dinner on a given night rather than trying to find a single walkable strip the way you might in a borough with an actual Main Street. Horsham's food scene lives in these two lanes, and this year both of them picked up new anchors within months of each other.

What's Actually on the Calendar This Fall

The restaurant turnover lines up with a fall calendar that's worth having on your radar if you live here.

• The Horsham Farmer's Market runs on Sundays throughout the year, and the township describes it as an award-winning fixture of the community.
• The HFM Fall Craft Fair takes over Hatboro-Horsham Senior High School on September 26, a shift from the market's usual footprint that turns the day into something bigger than a weekly produce run.
• Iron Abbey Gastropub on Easton Road is hosting a Whiskey Festival on October 24, giving one of the township's longer-standing gastropubs a reason to draw people in beyond a regular Friday night.
• The Patio at Horsham, at 100 Lakeside Drive, has kept a steady run of live entertainment through September, including a dueling pianos night and visits from touring food trucks like Cousins Maine Lobster.

None of this requires driving into Philadelphia or over to Doylestown. It's happening inside the same two corridors that just absorbed four new restaurants.

What This Means If You Live Here

The easy read on a string of restaurant openings is that a town is having a moment. The more useful read is to note that some of this year's openings are led by operators with decades of restaurant experience. Those openings include Gallo's Seafood and a diner taken over by a chef with 35 years of experience. The storefront that spent two years dark now has a line out front on weekend nights.

That adds to the picture of Horsham's daily life, beyond any single opening on its own. For residents, the result is a wider set of dining options across the township.

If you've been meaning to try the raw bar at Scratch Kitchen or grab a table at Buona Sera before the Whiskey Festival crowd descends on Iron Abbey, this is the fall to do it. And if you're the kind of person who tracks a neighborhood by watching which businesses are willing to plant roots in it, keep an eye on Horsham. That's usually the tell before anything else catches up to it.

Have questions about what's happening in Horsham beyond the restaurant scene, from local market trends to what's changing block by block? Brandon Byrne lives and works in these towns and is always happy to talk shop, whether or not you're buying or selling anything at all.