Apple Walnut Café — Breakfast, Baking and Dinner in Broomall

Apple Walnut Café brings a long family diner-and-bakery tradition to 2924 West Chester Pike in Broomall. According to the café’s official history, the family previously operated The Dining Car in Philadelphia for 63 years before bringing its scratch-kitchen approach to Delaware County.

Breakfast, Brunch and a Full Café Menu

The café serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, with dinner service on selected evenings. Its official menu spans eggs and café favorites, sandwiches, soups, salads and entrées, along with catering and a separate no-gluten menu section.

A neighborhood café succeeds by fitting different parts of local life. It can be a breakfast stop, a lunch with friends, a prepared dinner brought home or a place to pick up something sweet. Apple Walnut’s mix of dine-in, takeout, curbside and Grab & Go service is designed around those everyday needs.

A Bakery Tradition at the Center

The café’s official story highlights a true scratch kitchen and a bakery program that produces breads such as apple, cinnamon raisin, Jewish apple, orange crunch and pound cake. Those breads also become the foundation for the café’s French toast.

The savory side of the menu reflects the family’s diner background, with dishes including creamed chipped beef, chicken croquettes, Crepes Florentine and French onion soup. The bakery adds cakes, breads and desserts that give the café a second identity beyond breakfast and lunch.

The Pie That Built a Café

The namesake Apple Walnut Pie sits at the center of the restaurant’s story. The café describes it as sweet apples folded into a cream-cheese filling and finished with English walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon. Its own phrase — ‘the pie that built a café’ — captures how one signature recipe can become part of a business’s identity.

Built for Broomall’s Daily Rhythm

Apple Walnut Café combines the familiarity of a diner, the craft of a bakery and the flexibility of a modern neighborhood café. Its West Chester Pike location gives Broomall residents a place for a sit-down meal, a take-home dinner or a dessert for the family table.

The result is a local restaurant grounded in experience but shaped for the community it serves today.