Drive past 10 East Boulevard on a Wednesday evening and the building looks the same as it has for years. Same brick, same narrow storefront, same handful of cars angled into the gravel out front. But the name on the door is different now, and if you didn't stop to read it, you'd keep driving straight past the fact that Cashion's only pizza place changed hands without so much as a ribbon cutting.
That's the thing about a town this size. The turnover is real, but it's quiet. And once you start paying attention to when things are actually open, a bigger pattern shows up: Cashion doesn't run on a weekly rhythm the way a bigger suburb does. It runs on one Saturday.
The Sign Changed. The Crust Didn't.
For years, the pizza spot at 10 East Boulevard Suite A operated as Flour & Fennel, a sourdough-crust, thin-slice pizza kitchen that built a loyal following on giant NY-style slices and a gluten-free crust option that regulars still bring up by name. That business has closed. The space is now The Artisan Pizzeria, under new ownership, with a new phone number and a slightly different menu built around the same cozy, family-owned identity: a white sauce pizza with caramelized onion, goat cheese and spinach, a classic margherita, garlic knots, and a tiramisu for dessert.
The continuity is what makes this easy to miss. Same address. Same small-town, kid-friendly atmosphere. Same commitment to a sourdough crust that made the old place a destination people said was worth a fifteen-minute drive just for a slice. If you loved Flour & Fennel, there's a good chance you'd still love what's there now and never clock that ownership changed at all.
What hasn't changed is the schedule, and that schedule matters more than the name on the sign. The Artisan Pizzeria is closed Monday and Tuesday, open Wednesday through Saturday from 4 to 8:30 in the evening, and open a slightly shorter Sunday window from 4 to 7. There is no lunch here. There is no walking in at noon on a whim. This is a dinner-hours-only operation, which means it only intersects with your day if you're already planning an evening out.
The Other End Of Town Keeps Morning Hours Only
A few blocks over, at 423 West Boulevard, Small Town Revival Coffee & Bites runs on the exact opposite schedule. The shop was started by a husband and wife who had dreamed of owning a coffee place since their honeymoon in Italy back in 2010, and the small-town version of that dream landed in Cashion. The reviews describe it as a "hidden gem," and the menu leans into breakfast: burritos, a chicken jalapeño wrap that shows up in nearly every glowing review, and espresso drinks that draw people from well outside town limits.
Small Town Revival keeps weekday hours from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., a shorter Saturday window from 8 a.m. to noon, and stays closed on Sunday entirely. That means the two most talked-about food businesses in Cashion never actually overlap during the week. One runs mornings, one runs evenings, and neither one is open on the day the other is closed. If you want both a Small Town Revival breakfast and an Artisan Pizzeria dinner in the same 24 hours, your only options are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Sunday and Monday, you get one or the other, or neither.
The Market That Only Happens Once A Month
Then there's the piece that ties the whole town together for exactly three hours, once a month: the Cashion Farmers' Market, set up at 116 South Main Street. It runs the third Saturday of each month starting in May, from 9 a.m. to noon, and because it operates out of an indoor space, it's one of the few recurring events in town that weather doesn't touch.
This is not a weekly farmers market in the way bigger towns have one. It's a monthly appointment, and if you miss the third Saturday, there isn't a fallback the following week. Vendors bring produce, some of it USDA-certified organic, along with handmade goods, and the market has become the closest thing Cashion has to a standing town gathering, the one morning a month when foot traffic on Main Street actually looks like foot traffic.
Why The Third Saturday Is Different From The Other Three
Lay all three schedules side by side and the pattern gets sharper. On the market Saturday, Small Town Revival Coffee & Bites is already open at 8 a.m., the market runs 9 to noon a few blocks away, and by evening The Artisan Pizzeria opens its doors at 4. That's a full day where every anchor in town is active on the calendar, coffee in the morning, the market late morning, pizza at night.
Here's what a typical week actually looks like stacked against that one Saturday:
| Day | Small Town Revival Coffee & Bites | Cashion Farmers' Market | The Artisan Pizzeria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 7am–2pm | Closed | Closed |
| Tuesday | 7am–2pm | Closed | Closed |
| Wednesday | 7am–2pm | Closed | 4–8:30pm |
| Thursday | 7am–2pm | Closed | 4–8:30pm |
| Friday | 7am–2pm | Closed | 4–8:30pm |
| Saturday | 8am–12pm | 9am–12pm (3rd Sat only) | 4–8:30pm |
| Sunday | Closed | Closed | 4–7pm |
On three out of four Saturdays a month, there's a gap. Coffee ends at noon, pizza doesn't start until four, and there's nothing in between pulling people to Main Street. On the third Saturday, that gap gets filled by the market, and for three hours, Cashion looks like a town with a genuine morning-to-evening social loop instead of two disconnected businesses on opposite ends of the day.
If you've lived here a while, you've probably felt this without naming it. The town feels a little more alive on certain Saturdays, and now you know why. It isn't random. It's the one day a month when all three anchors are actually running.
What This Means If You're Trying To Catch Any Of It
None of this is a complaint about Cashion. A town this size was never going to have seven-day coverage on breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a weekend market. What it has instead is a handful of dependable windows, and knowing them means you stop showing up to a closed door.
If you want a Small Town Revival breakfast, go on a weekday morning or get there before noon on Saturday. If you want The Artisan Pizzeria, plan for evening, Wednesday through Sunday, and skip Monday and Tuesday entirely. If you want the market, mark the third Saturday of the month on your calendar now, because there's no makeup date if you miss it.
Cashion also sits close to a few other names worth knowing if you're building out a fuller list: P & J's Legacy for a bar-and-grill night, Gracie's Grub for soul food, and Twin Lakes Restaurant, all mentioned frequently by locals in the same breath as the two Boulevard spots. The town's food scene is small, but it isn't thin, and it rewards the kind of person who checks a schedule before they drive over.
That's really the whole point of a town like this. The businesses come and go, sometimes quietly enough that the sign is the only thing that tells you, but the rhythm of when Cashion actually shows up for itself has stayed remarkably consistent. Once you know the third Saturday, you know the town.
If you're already living here and want more of this kind of grounded, local read on Cashion, or you're weighing what a move into a small town like this actually looks like day to day, Allison Wanjon and her team spend enough time in these small towns to know which Saturday to circle on the calendar. Begin Your Story at Home.
