what are your favorite metro-accessible restaurants for a shouty bangy ten month old?
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Anonymous
Sure they are, you've just forgotten how to love or be deserving of love. |
Anonymous
It says right in the title that the baby is “shouty.” |
Anonymous
A happy baby who is shouting (babbling too loudly) isn’t screaming. |
Anonymous
It’s still quite irritating. No one wants to listen to that in a restaurant. |
Anonymous
| Please, I beg you, stay home until your baby is out of their “shouty and bangy” phase. It doesn’t matter if it’s McDonald’s or Ruth’s Chris steakhouse on New Year’s Eve. Get take out. I promise you you’ll be eating out soon enough, but spare the rest of us. |
Anonymous
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Really, you can take your kid anywhere, live like European in the US unapologetically, is my motto.
Places that worked well for my incredibly squirmy child: -American Indian Museum cafeteria -National Gallery of Art cafeteria (the "Cascade Cafe" specifically) -National Portrait Gallery Courtyard Cafe (I also liked the little side coffee bar upstairs (which may have disappeared with covid) but all the people "working from the museum" on their laptops were too fussy to be around a baby so we had to retreat back downstairs, boo) -the Sculpture Garden on the mall is actually not a great place to go with toddlers because they want to climb on the art and you will definitely get a stern talking-to by the guards if your kid even gets too close to the art.  . If you want an accessible garden, the Bishop's Garden is a good one and open city is right next to it. Open City is very noisy but the chairs are kind of too close and uncomfortable for sitting very long with a squirmy kid IMHO. Also not metro accessible, but try a bus, they are good, too.
-I also brought my kid to Tryst all the time and sat on the couches, #sorrynotsorry it's a public coffee shop not a quiet library geez |
Anonymous
| Oh yeah, and Compass coffee in Georgetown is the most chaotically noisy coffee shop on the planet, if you can find a seat it's a great option for babies who are learning to use their voices. |
Anonymous
| Babies and restaurants don’t belong in the same sentence. |
Anonymous
| Babies are annoying ugly pieces of shit. |
Anonymous
When we lived in the neighborhood, everyone was always super nice at Beau Thai on My Pleasant. They loved our baby/toddler
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Anonymous
| Fast food restaurants until the shouting shrieking phase is over. Sacrifices are made when kids are in these stages. |
Anonymous
| Food court at any mall...most other places no. |
Anonymous
| It sounds like OP is really encouraging this behavior. The louder the better! So fun! And not likely anyone will take the baby outside. How rude and unfair to the other diners. It’s a restaurant, not a playground. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
These are all kid friendly but "shouty and banging" sounds like a lot especially when OP thinks that's behavior is great and not trying to occupy baby / tamp it down. |