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.

Such a great find in an adorable location. The brisket literally melted in your mouth and the…read moreturkey was so moist and amazing. Their bbq sauce was delicious. I ended up ordering and extra plate to go

Such a nice little restaurant. Great service from the friendliest waitress. We tried the chicken…read moresalad sub, the Italian sub and the chef's salad with all the meats. Everything was good. But the Larkspur cocktail was amazing. I can't stop thinking about how good it was!

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

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

Oh my gosh! Best place in the area for breakfast. Not only is the food amazingly great, the service…read moreis the best. Friendly, fast and make you feel you belong. Can't say enough great things about Neighbors Cafe! The feeling you get at Neighbors Cafe is friendly, caring and family like.

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.

The Best BBQ Ribs that I didn't have to smoke myself in YEARS!!!…read more I like GOOD BBQ... I LOVE GREAT BBQ!!! No matter whether you are a local or just traveling through, this is a GREAT place to stop! I live about 45 miles away and was traveling through when we stopped and had some BBQ... THE RIBS ARE AMAZING!!!! WHAT A VALUE! You can bet I'll be back! Two meat dinner for 13.99.... A BARGAIN!!! You can bet I'll be back!!!

Honestly great food…read more My wife and I tried almost everything as we were on vacation and try and stop at local places. The ribs were by far the best thing if you like dry rub, good (not overwhelming smoke) and great meat quality. The sauces were not watered down and runny but a great consistency and a solid offering from your typical sweet, medium, hickory, and hot. The golden one was not any type of mustard style I've tried. We also really enjoyed the pit ham and hot links. The other meats were decent. The only meat we didn't care for was the turkey, it definitely tasted like a pre-pumped turkey with a slightly metallic / saline taste you get with pumped products. Overall great BBQ meats. The sides were a little more hit and miss. The okra is definitely something worth stopping for. It was fresh, hand battered and sprinkled with their house rub seasoning and utterly fantastic. We also really enjoyed their potato salad, if it was Sysco special you had us duped! The Mac and cheese like most joints was from a boil bag and the coleslaw though EXTREMELY fresh left a little to be desired as it hadn't marinated enough to really pack some flavor in. The staff was friendly but the young girl working the counter wasn't quite sure of the meats and how they were prepared. We were looking for bone in turkey or chicken and she didn't know. Over all really nice and the food was prepared in the open kitchen and quickly brought out! The place could use some TLC and a little degreaser as the floor was a little slick and tacky. Trash was picked up but a little after hours scrubbing and I think it would really stand out. This is a Coke products restaurant so Pepsi people don't bother stopping LOL. Our next time thru McPherson we will be stopping.