The story of the Water Gap Diner began more than 400 million years ago, when a continent collided with North America. The Blue Mountains and Kittatinny Ridge were formed by that collision, which sculpted the rocky landscape of Pennsylvania. So was the Delaware Water Gap—a sharp gash through which the Delaware River flows on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
A few eons later—in the year 1986, to be precise—the Water Gap Diner was opened at 55 Broad Street in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania. And the story continued on a smaller, less earthshaking scale…
