How do you feel about kids at restaurants?
If you’re like me and have spawned a couple of the little
monsters, you have no choice but to fake-grin through all the times when other people’s children generally have a
great time in a tiny little space in front of you.
A great time for them means shrieking, bashing, tomato
sauce-wiping, sugar-throwing, jumping, straw-gurgling and peels of high-pitched
giggles.
Not so fabulous for
the fellow diner, especially if they haven’t had the exhausting (strike
through) amazing experience of producing the little darlings.
The whole darn reason for this idiosy is because our little
munchers are bored. They need entertainment and fun and cool things to do.
And any parent will agree with me, I worship the ground of
any restaurateur who serves good food in a child-friendly atmosphere. A
sandpit, a jungle gym, hell a box of toys, we just need some extras to help our
angels with their ADD.
So clever us over here at food24 have started some delicious
collections for you. We’d really like you to get involved and share your
special places to go. We’ll give the best one a R250 Kalahari voucher to buy
them something cool.
Restaurants
Restaurant Ed Cath Shone has shared some really juicy places
to go to with your kids. From huge gardens to play in, to kitchens filled with
babysitting fairies who whisk them away to cook pizzas or ginger bread men
whilst you enjoy some yummy food and perhaps some well-earned quiet.
Wine farms
Capetonians are spoilt rotten with many kiddy havens to go
to with the added bonus of mind-blowing food. Check out wine Ed Cathy Marston’s
Top 10 child-friendly wine farms.
And if you’re feeling like staying in, try some of these fun
and easy recipes with your children. Cooking is a whole bunch of awesome when
you do it together and worry about the mess afterwards. Try my Top 10 family favourites and Top 5 healthy family meals.
Love and tomato sauce smiles,