We visited Cottonwood Falls late on a lovely Sunday morning. The town lives up to its quaint immage. The only problem was that everything was closed. When the restaurant opened we went in for lunch to find that since it is Sunday the only menu item is Sunday Diner. It was either fried chicken or chicken fried steak. Local patrons said it was really good but we just can%26#39;t handle a big meal in the middle of the day. We had to drive to the truckstop in Strong City to get a sandwich. (The Flinthills Restaurant had great hamburgers and grilled chicken sandwiches.)
Visiting Cottonwood Fall, KS
That Sunday issue is a problem all over the state. I don%26#39;t begrudge the people wanting the time off, but it makes it harder for people wanting to spend a weekend touring Kansas.
The Kansas Guidebook for Explorers, from the Kansas Sampler Foundation, is a good source when you find yourself in rural Kansas looking for a meal: http://kansasguidebook.com/index.html
It is a little too comprehensive to be a good source for advance research. It tends to give equal weight to too many places, making it hard to find the cool spots. But it is a great guide to carry in the car.
They post updates on the website, so you can keep it current for hours or closings.
Visiting Cottonwood Fall, KS
Kansas is still very church-going, and outside of the bigger cities you are lucky to find much of anything open on a Sunday morning ... other than the church doors. Frankly, the same thing can be said about most small towns after about 7:00 P.M. ... you know the old jokes about ';rolling up the sidewalks'; ... well, it has some basis in fact. The same thing, really, happens in Overland Park about 10 PM.
In a town as small as Cottonwood, even with the recent ';boom-let'; of tourism, there can%26#39;t possibly be enough hungry people wandering the streets to justify a cafe%26#39; being open Sunday morning or late in most any evening. That%26#39;s just how it is. When in Rome ... eat the chicken fried steak!
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