Jul 13th, 2010
by bgobbi.
Yay! It’s Friday night, the end of a long hard week. Time to celebrate and kick off the weekend! So the hubby and I load the kids in the car and head to one of the dozens of local restaurants for a family dinner and some fun bonding time. Well, that was the plan.
We picked [...]
There are so many of them out there now: Ale House (Miller’s and Carolina), Buffalo Wild Wings, Buffalo Wings & Rings, Bru’s Room, Duffy’s, Beef O’Brady’s, and Scotty’s Brewhouse, just to name a few. Sure they have a bar but can they also be kid-friendly? The Restaurant Mom says “yes!”
What’s so appealing about this type [...]
If you’re new, here it is. In video form a quick explanation of MyKidsPlate.com.
It was May, 2007. I had taken the leap from corporate-working-mom and become a stay-at-home-mom the previous August. After months of venturing out on my own to eat at restaurants with my kids, I quickly realized that restaurants didn’t want my business. They didn’t want me to come into their restaurant with a group of 12. [...]
Cheesecake Factory, PF Chang’s, and Daily Grill are the most recent chains to explore the world of the kid’s menu. According to Nation’s Restaurant News, they are the latest in the more upscale restaurant category to try and lure in family consumers. http://bit.ly/WUaw8
As experts in kid-friendly dining, including kid’s menus, I wonder what homework they have [...]
On Thursday, April 23rd, I arrived on a brisk spring morning in Boston to begin my hunt for Boston’s definition of a kid-friendly restaurant. I rode the “T” to South Station and asked the concierge “can you point me to a kid-friendly restaurant?” He responded by pointing to the bar right behind us which, at [...]