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What are some of the best infant-friendly restaurants in DC?
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Anonymous
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Looking for:
generally kid-friendly staff good food for the adults loud enough that some fussing won't get unwanted attention changing tables in the bathrooms What restaurants in DC, or suburban VA/MD, fit the bill? Thanks! |
Anonymous
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Any restaurant is infant-friendly. Change the baby before you depart, let them sleep next to you during the meal, go home and change them again when they wake.
Post again when you've got two prechoolers. |
Anonymous
Not helpful. Don't you have anything better to do? Infants wake up and cry when they need to be changed, in case you've forgotten. |
Anonymous
| Two Amys, Cafe Deluxe and Cactus Cantina (all right next to each other on Wisconsin Ave south of Tenleytown) all will have many babies and toddlers there at 5:30/6:00 pm. |
Anonymous
| Busboys and poets does NOT have a changing table. Total nightmare a few weeks ago when I had to change my baby on the sink. |
Anonymous
| PP Oh the horror of it. I cannot imagine how you did it. You are so brave. |
Anonymous
| We've been to Againn in Rockville twice and they have very friendly and supportive to us bringing our toddler (and happy when he eats their regular food). I prefer their lunch menu (more veggie options) to their dinner. They "only" have a changer in the women's but really, you bring your own mat if it is a little one or change standing up when they can stand well, which I find easier anyway. No biggie. |
Anonymous
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Cautionary tale: Brasserie Beck is a great restaurant and they were very child-friendly when I took my daughter there, but their changing table (in the ladies room) is installed so high that only giants can use it. And I am 5'8". And some restaurants are child-friendly, but they have no changing table at all so you're stuck doing it on a dirty bathroom floor. (Boulevard Woodgrill in Clarendon, i'm talking to you.)
the Great American restaurants in Virginia are very welcoming to families. My daughter's been to their various restaurants (Carlyle, Sweetwater, Coastal Flats, Artie's) a couple dozen times, from newborn to 2-year-old. In Clarendon, Whitlows and Faccia Luna are kid-friendly. (Hell, even Restaurant 3 was very welcoming to our daughter, so we went back several times. Eventide - they didn't quite know what to do with her.) Earlier poster was right in that many restaurants are very young-baby-friendly. I would go on the early side, place my order, feed my daughter and she was usually done eating by the time the food came. Then if I was lucky, she'd nap in her carseat carrier and I could visit. It's definitely more challenging with a 2-year-old. for two-year-olds, I recommend ordering the child's food and all beverages immediately upon being seated, bringing books and crayons, and when the waiter brings your food, tell him to come back with the check and a doggie bag in 10-15 minutes depending on how long you think you've got before your kid loses it. with toddlers, you learn to eat what you can and finish the rest at home if necessary. 
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Anonymous
| El Tamarindo on U Street and 18th (?) is marvelous with kids of all ages. The food is delicious too! |
Anonymous
You're pretty much right if you're talking 0-3 months. After that, things get a bit more tricky. |
Anonymous
| Jaleo is great for kids of any age. Don't know about the changing tables in the bathroom; I don't recall ever having changed a diaper in a restaurant. Just lucky, maybe. |
Anonymous
| Commissary in Logan Circle |
Anonymous
It was a total nightmare to the other patrons mostly. Ewww. |
Anonymous
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there are ways to change a baby that aren't completely unsanitary. wouldn't do it on a food service or anywhere near the eating areas of a restaurant, but a wet diaper can be changed very cleanly if you put the baby down on a couple of paper towels, place the clean diaper beneath the wet diaper on the surface, remove the wet diaper (and close it and seal it with the tape), fasten the clean diaper, and then wipe down the counter with baby wipes. not ideal, but "family-friendly" restaurants without changing tables are pretty much accepting that baby changes may be done on the vanity top.
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Anonymous
| Or, bring your stroller and change in your stroller, a heavy quilt/swaddle blanket or other ways - on a countertop is just gross and unsafe - what if the child rolls off or flips off. And, when a child is old enough to stand up, you change while they are standing up. They don't accept that it is done on the vanity - that is just selfish parenting. I have never ever changed my child on someone's vanity. |