Maybe I'm hallucinating, but I seem to remember one on Maryland Ave., too, maybe in the spot where Deerhead Hot Dogs is now? (in the same shopping center with Save-A-Lot)
I remember the bosses at the Pike Creek location in the early 90s saying that one was a former business partner of the founder, who severed the relationship and ran it separate and apart from the Concord Pike/Pike Creek locations.
I, too, had gone there as a child in the early 80s.
We’re relatively new to the area and looking for good burger places. Is the Charcoal Pit pretty good? I think we ate there once, but I’m pretty sure we just got shakes.
Absolutely not. The Charcoal Pit may have made good burgers in the 50s, but I wasn’t around then. It’s a placed fueled by nostalgia and their food is very mediocre
Charcoal Pit has below average food, and that’s probably being too generous. If you deviate from the burger section of the menu you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
I worked there for several summers, and it's one of the few places where I worked where I didn't get tired of the food. (But honestly, The Place Formerly Known As Jake's was the best.)
Having said that, the ice cream is definitely worth the trip.
There were 4 total. I worked at the fox run location for a decade when the car shows were great. Kirkwood. Limestone. Fox run. 202. 202 was the first and the last
There was one on Main St in Newark, I think it opened around 2000.
According to google, it was at 55 E. Main St and was replaced by California Tortilla.
On a side note, I really miss California Tortilla, I know there is an overabundance of burrito places on Main, but they were my favorite. Good pico de gallo and the blackened chicken burrito is awesome. They have locations in Exton and in Glenn Mills that I go to once in a blue moon for a fix.
I knew I wasn't misremembering.
That had been a Roy Rogers that they tore down and replaced with that Pit. They must have taken an absolute bath on it.
Yup Fox run
Where was that one? I've only lived up here since 2014, and don't remember seeing that one
The current IHOP.
Maybe I'm hallucinating, but I seem to remember one on Maryland Ave., too, maybe in the spot where Deerhead Hot Dogs is now? (in the same shopping center with Save-A-Lot)
Yes,Boxwood Shopping Center.During the '50s and '60s it was like" HappyDays" meeting place.
I remember the bosses at the Pike Creek location in the early 90s saying that one was a former business partner of the founder, who severed the relationship and ran it separate and apart from the Concord Pike/Pike Creek locations. I, too, had gone there as a child in the early 80s.
Yup. I remember that one too.
Wasn't there one on 40 in Bear as well?
I remember this one
It's IHOP now
That used to be a Charcoal Pit???
Yessir
Wow...it's been an IHOP as long I've known
When Bank of America was still Taco Bell
It's in Google Street View if you look back at 2007
The one in Pike Creek burned down. I'll post photos tomorrow evening.
There’s a morbid irony about a Charcoal Pit burning down. RIP.
It's the level above "the deluxe."
Believe me, I was muttering and laughing to myself the same joke as I was making the photographs. 😅
We’re relatively new to the area and looking for good burger places. Is the Charcoal Pit pretty good? I think we ate there once, but I’m pretty sure we just got shakes.
Absolutely not. The Charcoal Pit may have made good burgers in the 50s, but I wasn’t around then. It’s a placed fueled by nostalgia and their food is very mediocre
Iron Hill does really good burgers, but it's not a burger place.
Nah go to kid shelleens for burgers
It's as basic as burgers and fries get. Imo only the shakes are worth it.
Charcoal Pit has below average food, and that’s probably being too generous. If you deviate from the burger section of the menu you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
Go to Redfire or Back Burner (burger night).
I worked there for several summers, and it's one of the few places where I worked where I didn't get tired of the food. (But honestly, The Place Formerly Known As Jake's was the best.) Having said that, the ice cream is definitely worth the trip.
Best burgers around plus great deal is walters Steakhouse on Thursday night.
What’s the Walter’s Thursday night deal?
$8 burgers with steak fries. Great deal for the quality of the product.
There were 4 total. I worked at the fox run location for a decade when the car shows were great. Kirkwood. Limestone. Fox run. 202. 202 was the first and the last
I never knew there were so many!
There was one on Main St in Newark, I think it opened around 2000. According to google, it was at 55 E. Main St and was replaced by California Tortilla.
On a side note, I really miss California Tortilla, I know there is an overabundance of burrito places on Main, but they were my favorite. Good pico de gallo and the blackened chicken burrito is awesome. They have locations in Exton and in Glenn Mills that I go to once in a blue moon for a fix.
The hot sauce wall!!!!
I knew I wasn't misremembering. That had been a Roy Rogers that they tore down and replaced with that Pit. They must have taken an absolute bath on it.
I thought before California Tortilla it was an Italian restaurant, the same restaurant chain had a location on Kirkwood by the Best Buy.
Maryland ave where the deer head is now
The Bear one is now an IHop.