Kiddie friendly restaurants

[seashell]

Although Thomas is not toddler age yet, this is a really helpful post for when he is!!! It is good to know even now as we do go to some of those places and i was wondering if children and babies were welcome there - Thomas seems to start up just when our meal is served

[Lon]

We mostly go to Pizza Express and they love William in there, as he is still little I take food in for him and order some dough balls for us to share as well.

I do know that ASK has just started doing a kids menu but I haven’t been for a wile so I don’t know if it is any good.

One thing I have is a little toddler cutlery set from Tesco it has a knife, fork and spoon in a little case. When we order him something off of the kiddies menu they come in handy, not that he has got he hang of self feeding yet but if we put something on the fork he will get it in his mouth.

Lon

[August Girl]

We only have Brewsters, Pizza Hut and 3 McDonalds to choose from around here. I only go to the Pizza Hut but it's not my ideal choice.
There is a large cafe in the main town but they still allow smoking so there is no way I'd go in there.

[*kate*]

I always find Zizzi's good for the kids. Also we have a lot of small italian restaurants near us that are great.

Est est est as well.

Every chinese restaurant we've taken the kids into has been very good with them, also the local indian restaurant was fab with the kids.

I detest places like Brewsters, smell of kids feet from the ball pool (sorry but it's a pet hate) and awful awful food. Ditto McShites.

[sparkliness]

Where is Zizzi's Kate?

[BJMac]

Not sure if it's a chain or just a one off, but Ma Potters Chargrill at the Trafford Centre are very child friendly. They do free baby food/toddler meal, and always bring over crayons, and balloons etc and make a big fuss of Dixie, so they get a thumbs up from me

[shamu]

We like Gourmet Burger Kitchen - though the one nearest me is tiny and doesn't have any changing facilities they do have a children's menu (we go next door to Pizza Express to change him )
Pizza Express is now a no go for us as James refuses to eat Pizza :confused: - I must have the only child on the planet who doesn't like pizza They've gone and changed their menu so the one thing he would eat isn't on it any more (a salad with tuna and cannellini beans)
There's a lovely organic restaurant/bistro near me which caters well for kiddies too - packed at the weekend though....
Wagamamas is great - the children's menu is yummy and if he leaves anything I finish it off Though I'm not keen on the clip on high chairs and in Brent Cross you have to wait ages on the weekend (or get there at 11am.....)
John Lewis in Brent Cross is good too
Oh and I've found the cafes in M&S tend to cater well with high chairs etc
I take cutlery with us for James and have been known to take a plate (he can't be trusted not to throw the plate on the floor...)
Shamu

[*kate*]

Where is Zizzi's Kate?

It's on Grey Street in Newcastle City Centre. Down from the Theatre Royal.

There's also one in York which we've been to more times!

[Azana]

I have to say been deeply unimpressed with the kid's food in 2 branches of giraffe now - Richmond one and Southbank - Southbank they gave her an undercooked sausage and Richmond cold beans. Both times it was sorted but tbh the staff were not very apologetic - the sausage incident was particularly not good.

At the mo' liking Bar Estillo - they do a kid's tapas menu!

Like GBK - didn't realise wagamama's did a child's menu so shall check that out!

We have a great local restaurant that does any pizza/pasta for a fiver for early dinner that is great.

Az

[IncyWincySpider]

Normally I do everything to avoid chains of more than a couple of restaurants but we've been to a couple of Blubeckers http://www.blubeckers.co.uk/blubeckers/index.html and found them pretty good. The childrens menu had real food (rather than just sausage + chips etc) and they gave out crayons etc.