Bonner Springs’ Family Table Restaurant is lovably weird

I think I’ve found one of the best — and cheapest — chicken-fried steak dinners in the metro. But the four-month-old restaurant serving the meal, Family Table at 133 Oak in Bonner Springs, is such an offbeat destination that I worry about its survival. Downtown Bonner Springs doesn’t have the greatest track record for restaurant shelf life: The popular Madame Hatter’s Tea Room closed last weekend.

And if you want to experience the very definition of a mom-and-pop restaurant — although, in this case, it’s a son-and-mom situation — I suggest making a trek out to see this friendly little diner. There aren’t many places like it anymore. And in this economy, I suspect there won’t be many more.