"I thought we were going to Greentown Grill but GPS took us to Tony's instead."
That's a real review, left by someone who drove to 1549 Route 507 expecting an all-day diner with a BBQ pit and an ice cream stand out back, and instead found a pizzeria sitting in the same building. Same parking lot. Same phone number. Different restaurant.
If you live in Greentown, you've probably had your own version of that moment: recommending a place to a visiting relative, then pausing mid-sentence because you're no longer sure the name still applies. Route 507 is the town's real commercial spine, the stretch running between Newfoundland and Lake Wallenpaupack where most of the eating and drinking options actually sit. Over the past couple of years, several of the businesses along it have changed hands, changed names, or changed what they even serve, faster than the signage and the map apps have kept up with.
One Address, Two Restaurants
For years, 1549 Route 507 operated as Greentown Grill, sometimes listed as Greentown Grille and Black Saddle Smoke House. It ran breakfast through dinner plus Sunday brunch, with a salad bar and a made-to-order omelet station, and a BBQ pit under a canopy open Thursday through Sunday with an attached ice cream stand. Reviewers describe generous portions and a kids' menu, the kind of place a family staying nearby might use for more than one meal a day.
That building is now Tony's Restaurant & Pizzeria, still at (570) 252-4499, with more than one reviewer noting the décor hasn't changed even though the menu has. Search engines and map apps haven't fully caught up: Yelp and Tripadvisor listings for both names are still active, which is exactly the gap that sends people who are navigating by memory or an old pin straight to a business that no longer exists in that form.
What the Reviews Are Actually Arguing About
Read enough of the feedback under both names and a pattern shows up that has nothing to do with whether the food is good. One visitor, comparing a two-week stay under each ownership, said the diner filled up six or seven times during their stay for breakfasts and dinners, while the pizzeria only pulled them in once, because pizza isn't something most people order daily the way they'd stop in for eggs or a sandwich.
That's the actual shift on Route 507: not a quality drop, but a change in how many reasons a resident has to walk in on a given day. A diner with a salad bar and an omelet station works for any meal, any day of the week. A pizzeria works for the nights you specifically want pizza. Fewer occasions to stop by is what shows up in complaints about a nearly empty dining room during a July lunch that used to be standing room only under the old ownership.
The Route 507 Corridor Right Now
| Business | Address | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tony's Restaurant & Pizzeria | 1549 Route 507 | Open, replaced Greentown Grill in the same building |
| Jam Room Brewing Co. | 101 Creamery Rd | Open, small taproom, unchanged |
| Dutch's Market | 1564 Route 507 | Open, grocery |
| John's Italian | 1406 Route 507 | Open |
| Pork Authority BBQ / Main Street Meats | 1311 Route 507 | Shared address across current directory listings |
| Beyond Bagels | 163 Ledgedale Rd | Open |
The BBQ End of the Block Moved Too
The diner-to-pizzeria swap isn't the only overlap on the road. Current directory listings show both Pork Authority BBQ and Main Street Meats operating out of 1311 Route 507. That's the same pattern as 1549: one physical address, two business names circulating at once, with no single listing acting as the reliable source for which one is actually taking orders this season. Whether that's a full rebrand, a change in ownership, or two concepts sharing space isn't something the directories agree on yet, which is itself useful information if you're trying to figure out who to call before you drive over.
What Anchors the Strip
Not everything on 507 is in motion. Jam Room Brewing Co., tucked a short distance off the main road at 101 Creamery Rd, has stayed a small taproom leaning on local ingredients, the kind of low-key stop that doesn't generate GPS confusion because nothing about it has changed. A few miles up PA-390, Promised Land Inn keeps drawing the hiking and camping crowd out of Promised Land State Park with a dog-friendly patio and an elk meatloaf that shows up in nearly every review of the place. Neither name has moved, neither building has changed hands, and on a road that's otherwise been reshuffling its restaurant lineup, that kind of steadiness is worth noticing.
Why the Sign Out Front Isn't the Reliable Part
The address and phone number on a Route 507 business are currently holding up better as reference points than the name posted above the door. That's demonstrably true at 1549, where the same phone line has served two different restaurant concepts, and it may be starting to look true at 1311 as well. If a relative visiting Greentown asks where the old diner went, the honest answer isn't that it closed. It's that the building kept operating and simply changed what it puts on the plate.
Next time you're recommending a place to someone unfamiliar with the area, it's worth double-checking the current name before you send them, because on this stretch of road, that's the part most likely to have changed since you last looked.
We track these kinds of shifts on Route 507 because knowing which business is actually behind a given address is part of knowing Greentown, not because there's anything to sell about it. Live Free Listings keeps a running eye on these changes across the towns we work in.
