This place was just what we needed a hearty meal to go about our day. The country fried steak with sawmill gravy was the best and I would definitely get this again. read more

This place is very convenient off of the turnpike. Parking is easy. Ambience is casual, clean, and tidy. The desserts look fantastic. The service was friendly and our kind waitress treated us just like the many regulars there. We got our food quickly. The bill too. The fries are those kind that have like crumbles on them. Not my favorite but they were well fried. We had a burger that was a little overcooked and tasted just like one you could make at home. Also had a tuna melt. The bread was warm and toasted stout the tunela was cold. I found it odd that the tuna wasn't on the toast when it was "melted". Tasted good though. I would stop here again but probably get dessert for my meal. read more

Such a great find traveling along the PA Turnpike. Easy to reach from the highway. Friendly , fast service with many options to choose from. The food was simple but absolutely delicious. The hot turkey sandwich was nostalgia on a plate. So glad we stopped. read more

On our way through PA, we decided to get off the turnpike to stop here for dinner, rather than just stopping at a rest stop. So glad we did! Food was very good, not expensive, and the staff was incredibly friendly. I had the prime rib, which was one of the next I've ever had. Really enjoyed it here, and would definitely come back when passing through again! read more

We enjoyed Great food, service and value from the staff. Recommend for efficient service on a long drive.

The food and service were GREAT! Well worth the short ride off the Turnpike for a great meal!

The staff was warm and welcoming. It felt like you were having lunch with people who loved you. My French fries were ordered extra well done and they came out perfect! read more

Great service, delicious food at a great price point. Wide selection of pies for dessert too. Cash only but there's an ATM on site. read more

See all

I've ate here all my life! Food is ALWAYS good! Service is always good as well! I'll eat here till the walls fall in!

What a great find. Very friendly waitress, great food, very clean, and really fast service. What more could one want? The homemade soup was the best. I will stop again next time I'm in town. read more

Quaint little small town restaurant. We stopped while passing through town, the waitress was very nice and I had a very good cheeseburger. My girlfriend is vegetarian and was able to find several good choices on the menu for her. read more

Stopped here on my way back to NJ from Pittsburgh. For a starter, I had the chicken rice soup that was homemade and pretty good. For lunch I had the fried chicken sandwich and my friend had the Rueben. Both were delicious. I would definitely come here again. Our waitress Kay was super sweet and an employee there for 20 yrs! She did a great job and was very attentive. I hope to save room for dessert next time. read more

Stopped in on my MC trip to WV to have lunch. Didn't have to wait long to get waited on and the food was delicious. I got the blockbuster and I highly recommend. I will definitely be stopping back. read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - a motorcycle parked in front of the restaurant - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

Great food, great service, great people! I highly recommend the chicken fried steak or the chili.

Cash only!! Still delicious and great service year after year!! Their breakfasts are huge and I could eat their bacon all day long. My favorite lunch is their hot fresh roasted turkey sandwich and french fries with gravy. I'm craving it just thinking about it!! Save room for dessert!! They bake pies daily and you really shouldn't pass them up!! read more

See all

If you're hungry, need to use the restroom and need a break from the turnpike, this is a decent option. Requires cash or check (ATM on site) and a strong tolerance country music. Food is more assembled rather than cooked. This will satisfy your hunger but won't necessarily give you a culinary experience. One word can sum this place up: folksy. read more

Great home cooked meal at a very resonable price. Great service, and the owners are very friendly!!

Great food, great staff. Even at peak times your food is received within a timely manner.

Probably one of the best fluffy, sweet French toast breakfasts I have had in a long time! Quiet, no frills place decorated with pictures of churches everywhere. Definitely a place for after church breakfast or meet up for your morning bible study. Even the paper placemats where all about JC! Uncomplicated breakfast menu with great prices. BRING CASH - NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED! They do have a cash machine inside though. read more

All I can say is ....wow. This place had amazing food and I was not expecting that! We were driving from New York back to Pittsburgh when I had to get gas. I pulled off and drove behind a few buggy and horses. Apparently Amish live in the area which is always a good sign! Got gas at a gas station where you had to pay inside like the good old days. Saw a restaurant across the street and figured we'd take our chances. It did not disappoint! I got hot turkey sandwich, which was a piece of bread with shredded REAL TURKEY and another piece of bread on top, then chicken gravy over the top (seemed like the packet kind of yellow chicken gravy but it was GOOD) . My son got a cheesesteak hoagie and said it was really good. It was also real steak meat. The service was very prompt. The music was country music from the 1990s, which I absolutely love! The server was very kind. And the ice tea that I got was freshly brewed. The prices were really good also. I would make the 2 1/2 hour drive back just to eat at this restaurant! read more

This establishment is legendary for the size of their meals. The clean, Nixon-era decor adds to the authenticity of this comfort food diner, and it was a treat to watch the local horse buggies travel back-and-forth while we dined. I had the turkey with filling, mounded on a platter, under the traditional yellow green gravy. Delicious. My wife had the four-piece broasted chicken dinner (a whole half bird, easily 2 pounds of meat) with mashed potatoes, which served her for two additional meals. On the way out, we couldn't resist taking home one of their massive pieces of cheesecake on thick graham cracker crust (we passed on the offered fruit toppings). Later, when we checked into our campground and told the manager where we had dinner, he cracked, "did you get enough to eat?" read more

This restaurant was a very welcome lunch break on a recent trip through Pennsylvania! It has a very quaint and homey-feeling, and the service and prices are just what you (might) expect for a family-run diner in the middle of the mountains. It seems to be a popular spot for hunters or skiers as they travel up-or-down the mountain for the weekend. Our service was stellar and the food was very tasty... and the prices almost felt like I stepped back into the 1980's! Great place all around. read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - the front of the restaurant - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

See all

Amazing cute little restaurant! Yum! Very polite staff. Food were huge fairly priced portions! A must if you are traveling the turn pike read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

This is a very nice place. We were looking for somewhere off the PA turnpike, and this was just right. It is about 4 miles from the Willow Hill exit. It is clean and inviting. Kind of like a diner. They do takeout. The waitresses were friendly. We could order off both the lunch and dinner menu. We got dinners for $9.99 that included an entree, 2 sides and a roll. The ladies room was clean. They only accept cash. read more

Good food. Great prices. Sweet and friendly service. Cash only. Highly recommended. And in beautiful Allegheny mountain country.

Path Valley is great. We stopped in route to Pittsburgh, great choice. The service was so incredibly friendly and attentive, I can't say enough good things. The food was good and you'll be glad you stopped. We had three dishes, all good! read more

Super friendly staff at the Path Valley Family Restaurant where you get huge portions for your dollar. A dinner with desserts will likely run you less than $40 and you will have leftovers when you leave. I got the open face roast beef for dinner, which was enough food to for three people. They have a large selection of desserts, but I must have chosen poorly since my lemon meringue pie wasn't very good. My friend ordered the chocolate peanut pie and said it was amazing. Great spot for lunch or dinner if you are driving through Path Valley PA. read more

See all

For what it is, it's actually pretty good. Portions are huge, and the value for your dollar is definitely here. The servers are friendly, there were lots of specials to pick from and the menu covered pretty much anything you would want. I had the lasagna on special, and was blown away by how large it was. I also had some tasty cheeseburger soup. Overall I was pretty happy and the other three gentlemen I was with had no complaints either. The one thing everybody kept saying was wow that's a lot of food, so be prepared to take home leftovers. I had intentions of getting one of the many pie slice choices they had in a display case by our table, however I couldn't even finish the meal on my plate so I didn't get to try desert. Oh well, there's always next time ... read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - Cheeseburger soup. - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

See all

Off the beaten path near a disel station is this little gem of home like cooking. After enough gross road food I opted for this quaint restaurant and ordered a hot turkey sandwich imagining a few slices of dry turkey placed in a press to warm up. I couldnt have been more wrong. Suddenly before me was a steaming plate of both dark and light turkey pilled high between two slices of white bread completely covered in gravy with yummy fries on the side. Straight thanksgiving left over style. Couldnt come close to finishing my meal. My bf got the meatball sub which he scarffed down with the enthusiasm of a starved hound. As you can imagine he claimed it delicious. When we asked for recomendations both friendly waitresses stated, "everythings good". In my experience they were right. read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - Hot turkey - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

Path Valley Family Restaurant, what an enjoyable stop every time on my way to the mountains. I have been coming to this place since I was a kid. I was impressed by their honey deep fried chicken, and those tasty fries! Good to know that after all of these years, the quality is still awesome, prices are reasonable and the wait staff is funny. Will return! read more

One of the best family restaurants out there! Excellent food, generous helpings, and great service!! Only one minor caveat- make sure you have cash (no credit cards)! read more

Myself and a friend went here tonight for dinner. Kinda a 'girls night' out . I live 90 min away and coming here is a special treat for me. They aren't always the friendliest, but I think that has a lot to do with being a small community and I get that . Anyway , the food is amazing, well priced and large portions. With the pandemic they are only at 25% capacity seating so we expected a lil wait . We went in and stood, and stood and stood waiting for nothing more than a acknowledgement . We never received it. The lady at the register asked one of the waitresses to seat us and she looked at us a few times but her phone was more important I guess? We left. It's sad that because they didn't know us, we weren't that important . I also guess they have all the business they need. Losing my business I'm sure is no big deal to them. I went down the road unhappy that I didnt get the meal I wanted. read more

So us hikers, after a long day, we may stink, and our technical clothes may not be the most fashionable, but we're usually great tippers. I left no tip at the Path Valley Family Restaurant, and I'd like to tell you why. 2 stars for the food. Very large portions. Taste, about average; better than Denny's, but nothing special. -1 stars for the service. From the time we finished eating, to the time our server reappeared to ask if we needed anything (like the check), 45 minutes. My coffee sat empty for more than an hour. I tried desperately to make eye contact with every employee that past by our table, each one looked away. No 'can I help you?' no, 'can I get your server?' No nothing. And I'd intended to get desert, too. Thanks for nothing. So when I get to the register to pay, I'd intended to leave a minimal tip of a buck, at the very least for the kitchen staff. "I'm sorry, we don't take cards". Hey, its 2013, you need a scarlet letter on the door if you don't take plastic. Even in the middle of Appalachia, WV, they take credit cards. I don't carry much cash when I hike, because it isn't water-resistant. So that tears it, I only had cash from my buddy who'd given it to me for gas., otherwise, I'd be washing dishes I left the change (20 cents), but that's it. You'd think, with a Tuscarora trailhead within spitting distance, this place would be hiker friendly. Not so much. read more

We were on our way home from Pittsburgh on I-76 Eastbound around 1pm and decided it was time to stop for lunch and this was one of the higher rated places we found in the direction we were headed, so we decided to give it a try. The reviews do not lie, because despite the ridiculously low prices (to us Philly folks), the food quality (taste, temperature, ingredient freshness, execution) were excellent, and said wonderful food was served by exceedingly friendly service with a smile. This is exactly what we needed after a few hard days out on the trail on bikes and we couldn't have found a more appropriate establishment for a quick and friendly lunch on the road home. Do yourself a favor and stop by! read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - Delicious and amazingly affordable, simple good food accompanied by friendly service with a smile in a family-friendly and casual place. - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

Home cooked food in Amish fashion. The broasted chicken is very good (crispy, but not greasy). The meatloaf is delicious! The mashed potatoes may be instant, but you can skip 'em. The place is dirt cheap and very tasty. The desserts are homemade (except the cheesecake - try the lemon merengue or coconut cream - yum yum!) A tasty treat about 4 miles off exit 189 on the penna turnpike. Definitely worth the mileage for delicious food when your other option is Wendy's or bob evans. Try it! (cash only!) read more

Path Valley Family Restaurant - Broasted chicken - American Near Me - Spring Run, Pennsylvania

I love this place for breakfast. Their food is dirt cheap and very good. It has an old time diner atmosphere and is very inviting. I've never had better scrapple and it's my favorite thing to eat here. This place takes you out of modern day fast life and slows you down! read more

The s place always seems busy, always a good sign! Huge servings, great selections and a service oriented, energetic staff. Worth the detour off I-76! As others indicated, bring CASH! read more

I drove by this place on business -- hard to believe considering Dry Run is pretty much in the middle of nowhere -- and thought I'd check with coworkers who'd eaten here before. They said it was good. Being a sucker for small restaurants and diners, especially in the middle of nowhere, me and a buddy took a motorcycle trip from Harrisburg out the backroads and up and over the mountains and stopped at the Path Valley Family Restaurant for lunch and to warm up. What a great little place !! The coffee was fantastic with top-offs poured frequently. I got a reuben sandwich which was good corned beef -- not stringy or fatty at all. And my buddy got a turkey wrap which he said was great. Our food was ready in no time, the server was attentive and friendly, the restaurant was clean and the bill very reasonable. Next time I ride out to the mountains or I'm in town on business, I plan to stop and have a meal. Thanks !! read more

After hours of driving while relocating our family from Ohio to New Jersey, this was a welcome stop along the way. The folks working at this restaurant could not have been nicer. The service was good and the food hit the spot. Nothing fancy, just good home-cooked style food. Save room for some pie! read more

Good size portions, good food, good price, great service. Doesn't take credit cards. Only cash or check.