what are your favorite metro-accessible restaurants for a shouty bangy ten month old?

[Anonymous]

Mi Rancho (in the big, covered outdoor space) in Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Uhf none. Stay home and hire a personal chef op. That is how we found ours and they are still working with us 19 years later.

[Anonymous]

With a baby in that phase, Chipotle or Silver Diner.

[Anonymous]

Lauriol plaza outside at lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ted's bulletin
Pete's in tenleytown
Most food halls
Old ebbitt
Cheesecake factory
Founding farmers
Olive garden

I would take my kid out if they were being loud at any of these...but I probably would at Ihop too. My guess is other patrons were annoyed by the teens and the baby,

[Anonymous]

Oh this hurts my heart.

OP please consider that for some people, the evening out at IHOP is their nice meal out that they’ve been saving up for. I think it’s so disdainful that you’re making lists of places that you find so unworthy of your respect that it’s okay if your baby yells and bangs on the table throughout your meal. Do you tip the servers extra for having to clean up extra mess after you’ve had your “cheap” meal?

I understand the need for family-friendly, but we’ve taught our children to be quiet and mindful at the table from the time they are babies, and I REALLY don’t want you to ruin it for the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

McDonalds

[Anonymous]

Roger … copy that.

[Anonymous]

When we had 2 toddlers who woke up at 6am we'd drive down to U St to have breakfast at Busboys & Poets on U Street at 8am. The restaurant was usually empty until closer to 10am as the young single people slept in, and their breakfast & coffee were very good...it was perfect for groggy parents to feel like we were going out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ted's bulletin
Pete's in tenleytown
Most food halls
Old ebbitt
Cheesecake factory
Founding farmers
Olive garden

Old Ebbitt? That seems like an odd choice for this list. Do they have a separate room that’s good for shouty bangy babies?
While it is tourist friendly, the sections that I’ve been in have been business-luncheon quiet. It’s also a splurge restaurant for a lot of people, so this doesn’t seem like a thoughtful choice.

[Anonymous]

Rio Grande in Bethesda accessible by metro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ruth Chris is surprisingly kid friendly.

Especially on NYE at 10 P.M.!

DCUM deep cut!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowhere. Seriously. People don’t want to listen to that when they are trying to enjoy their time out.

Seeing the cute babies is half the fun of some place like Silver Diner or IHOP. Come to the one in my neighborhood!!!

Shouty, bangy is not cute. Stay home, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Same! And DC is great for this. Almost any Capitol Hill restaurant is baby and kid-central from like 4-7pm on weekends.

Specific suggestions: The Roost (if you go between 4pm-7pm most days, it’s unusual not to have a kid or three in tow); the Brig; Ted’s Bulletin (have never been to a single location that isn’t noisy chaos of all kinds); La Cosecha in Union Market; Union Market itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ted's bulletin
Pete's in tenleytown
Most food halls
Old ebbitt
Cheesecake factory
Founding farmers
Olive garden

I would take my kid out if they were being loud at any of these...but I probably would at Ihop too. My guess is other patrons were annoyed by the teens and the baby,

No, these places are filled with other families being loud and enjoying themselves. It’s all good.