I had the chocolate coconut pie, biscuits and gravy, iced oat milk latte, and a hot breve…read more Everything I tried was good. The service was quick and for the most part welcoming. There was a sweet older woman behind the counter one day who told me to have a blessed day and sounded like she meant it so that was a nice impression of this place. I'd definitely return to this cozy cafe.

There aren't many towns when you drive the back roads of Kansas, and even fewer have coffee shops…read more This place was a sight for sore eyes! They had me out the door in just a few short minutes with a solid americano that cost less than $3. I'd happily come back here again!

We brought a local work group in for a celebratory dinner. We coordinated the menu and happy hour…read moreneeds in advance. The owners were very accommodating and so friendly. We had a small plates type menu that had 8 choices including meats, salad, fruit, cheese, fish and sides. Everything tasted delicious and home made. We had approximately 24 people and started with a happy hour with a full bar. The menu options were incredibly complimentary of our teams food interests. The ambience is French countryside. Fine tables. Linens. Center pieces. It's felt special and everyone enjoyed it so much. I will absolutely be back. Great experience and highly recommend this location.

This place has a for sale sign on it and is chained up. Don't think of coming here. The…read moreneighborhood cafe across the street looks like a dive but the food is good

Excellent food. Onion rings were soo good! This place has…read morebeen a blessing to find. Love it!

Great little place in McPherson. The ambiance can be a little wanting, but the food is always solid…read moreand the waitstaff is friendly and fast. One of my favorite lunch stops in Mac.

HINES BBQ is absolutely worth the stop! We were passing through Lyons and decided to give this…read moreplace a try, and I'm glad we did. The BBQ was excellent. The pulled pork was tender, smoky, and piled high on the sandwich, and the brisket was juicy with a ton of flavor. The sides were just as good and tasted homemade rather than like an afterthought. You can tell they actually put time and care into smoking their meat. Great portions, great flavor, and exactly the kind of small-town BBQ place you hope to find when traveling through Kansas. Everything we had was fresh, filling, and delicious. Definitely one of those places I'd go out of my way to stop at again.

Can't go wrong eating here. The cornbread desert is off the charts. The chef knows how to make…read moreincredible Bar B Q. Love when they travel to Hutch on the 4th Saturday of the month.

Food was great and the waitress was always there when we needed her, but above all the aesthetics…read moreof this place were amazing. I did get the Traditional Italian sandwich and I opted for no mayo so it was a little dry but the bread was so soft and fresh that honestly I didn't really care.

Super cute atmosphere. Great service. And the best chicken salad sandwich I have ever had! Just an…read moreawesome place! Love it!!!

I heard about the size of the cinnamon roll just a day before a road trip. Added it to my…read moreitenerary. The C. Roll was definitely worth it. Little pricey, but took three days to eat. Lot's of cinnamon inside. Yummy!

Amazing food and super good. The service is amazing the staff could not be any nicer. The…read moreatmosphere is so welcoming.

Empire China does Cantonese, Hunan and Szechwan cuisine, and does them well ... dine in, take out,…read moreand catering. (MasterCard and Visa accepted. Gift certificates available.) The restaurant, on the main floor of what used to be the Ly-Kan Hotel, is closed Mondays. Regular menu business hours are: Lunch, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dinner, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m (10 p.m. on Friday).; and Buffet hours are from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. What the restaurant lacks in decor and atmosphere, it more than makes up for with scrumptious food and excellent service. The buffet features a very wide variety of dishes ... enough that even a picky eater like me can find plenty to eat! The lunch special menu lists 33 choices, including 14 hot and spicy dishes that can be modified to your taste. These selections (various pork, chicken, beef, and shrimp dishes, plus two or three vegetable dishes) come with the daily soup, egg roll, and fried rice or steamed rice. Lunch special prices (all prices as of 7/23/2010) range from $5.50 to $5.99. The menu is incredible! Sixteen appetizers, ranging from chicken sticks, to golden fried to-fu, to sliced jelly fish cold plate, and everything in between! (I love the sugar biscuits, and the crab angels.) There are nine kinds of soup! The egg drop soup (excellent!) and the hot and sour soup come in a cup (small) for $1.25, or a bowl (large) for $4.50. Be warned, the large order served five or six members of my family the other night. Other soups range from deluxe vegetable soup at $4.99 to seafood to-fu soup at $5.99. I'm not sure about the size of these servings, so ask your server. Also on offer are a huge variety of pork, poultry, beef, seafood, vegetable, egg fu young, fried rice/chow mein/lo mein, and mu shu dishes. There are 12 happy hour dinner combination specials that cost $7 or $8. These are served from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Twenty-four chef's specials, served with fried or steamed rice, range from Szechwan Triple to Happy Family at $8.99, to Sizzling Peking Pork Chop Hot Platter at $9.99, to West Lake Duck at $10.99, to Seafood in Birds Nest at $11.99, to Whole Fried Fish Cantonese Style at $15.99, and Snow Crab Leg Combination Plate at $19.99. And 17 more choices in between! Family dinners are available for $9.50 per person or $12.50 per person (a minimum of two people). For those who aren't crazy about Chinese food, there are side orders that include: French fries, onion rings, hashbrowns, plain fried rice or steamed rice ($1.25 each); vegetable salad, or two eggs ($1.50); chicken nuggets, cheese sticks, bacon strips, or plain noodles (each $2.75). Everything my family of eight ordered the other night was excellent, and portions were large enough to share without leaving anyone hungry. Just a note: If you order the Chinese hot tea, it is made with loose tea unless you request the powdered teabag, so there will be little floaty bits in your cup. (You get a whole teapot full of tea.) Service was flawless. Special requests were honored with a smile. The main reason I didn't give Empire China the fifth star, is that the dishes served often didn't look anything like the photo on the menu. For example, I ordered the lemon chicken, which was pictured as two sliced, plain, cooked chicken breasts (unbreaded, unbattered), garnished with broccoli and about half a lemon, with lemon sauce on the side., What I got was a lot of small to medium-sized, battered, fried chicken pieces, swimming in lemon sauce, garnished with four pieces of broccoli and a couple slices of lemon. Very tasty, but not at all what I was expecting, and I spent a lot of time peeling the fried coating off the chicken to avoid the extra calories, etc. If you're in the central part of Kansas and get a craving for Chinese, head for Lyons, and Empire China. You'll be glad you did!

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP Empire China was a welcome addition…read moreto Lyons, Kansas when it first opened. The food was always good and the space was adequate. However, some friends of the former owners moved from New York and bought the place. I think the food is even better. The buffet has been expanded, both in size and in selection. The food was all very tasty, but with more variety. They've added some sushi as well, a nice little extra in my opinion. AND, they are now open on Mondays. The price for the lunch buffet remains very reasonable. I think you'll like the new Empire China.

We had our family reunion for the first time in McPherson this year, when past years it was held in…read moreNewton. We were hoping to find food to be catered that resembled our past menus. I found Woodies by their great reviews. Their food was excellent, and Heather was more than accomodating with ordering and answering all my questions regarding all the food. The family members were very pleased with the food....the barbeque was excellent tasting, and with some of us being from KC, where barbeque is popular, that is quite a compliment. The sides were excellent as well...especially the sweet, smokey beans and potato salad!

decent food but the resturant itself needs attention. The whole place smelled like pinesol and…read moredirty urinal, and the kitchen desperately needs deep cleaned. The workers were nice and the owner/boss man was very polite and helpful, but the management side of me was fixated on the splatters, greasy film, buildup, and dirt on the walls, baseboards, ceiling tiles, vents, appliances, and storage racks.