Hickory Tree Restaurant in Kansas

I visited a new place (to me) near Salina, Kansas this weekend.

The Hickory Tree Restaurant in the tiny community of Smolan is a unique restaurant that offers a BBQ buffet in the former Smolan High School which operated from 1926-1950. Open only Friday & Saturday evenings, and Sunday for lunch.

The gymnasium is the main dining room, with theme private dining in the former class rooms.

My write up, with photos: http://www.kansastravel.org/hickorytreerestaurant.htm

Keith

Sfreader-
Nice write up! You really do a great job of finding these interesting, unique places. My girlfriend is a school teacher and she would love eating here.

How do you find these places? Is it mostly word of mouth?

Outstanding!! Thank You. We have added your recommendation to our Kansas list.

AL

Thank you for the kind words.

In this particular case, the owner's teenage son emailed me about 3 weeks ago asking to be reviewed. I looked them up on the web and saw that it looked interesting enough to include in last weekend's exploring.

Keith

Sfreader-
You know you made it when they come to you!

The great thing about Kansas is there are little pods of eccentricity all over the state.
Pretty nice work week at the school too.