Frommer's New York City with Kids
Chapter One
Family-Friendly Dining
In the gastronomic universe, New
York has a fair number of star-quality
restaurants, but are they worth it if
you're eating out with your kids?
Fuhgeddaboudit. Le Bernardin and
Nobu be damned-what I look for
these days is a restaurant that's noisy
and casual, where the service is relatively
speedy, and where the menu
includes at least one or two items from
my kids' major food groups: chicken
fingers, burgers, pasta, pancakes, and
pizza, any or all of which could come
with a side of fries. You can find
plenty of such restaurants in New
York, and they won't cost you an arm
and a leg.
DINING OUT WITH YOUR KIDS
You know a restaurant welcomes kids
when they've printed up a place mat
for young customers to color and
when you get to keep the crayons
you're given to color it with. If they've
gone to the trouble of developing a
specific children's menu, that's even
better. A number of tourist-dependent
restaurants around Times Square go
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