baby friendly restaurants in bethesda with good food?

[Anonymous]

we took my daughter to Mon Ami Gabi and they were great with her. She was an infant so I brought her food in with us, but now that she's a toddler, I'd take her there again and order off the menu for her. She does eat mussels, which are my favorite thing there.

When she was a baby, we brought in her food. I think they expect that. Now that she's a toddler, she eats people food. If they have a kids menu with stuff my two-year-old will eat, I order off the kids' menu for her. If they don't, I order my meal carefully, sometimes with an extra appetizer, and we share. (and sometimes she's stealing from my plate while I'm stealing some of her mac & cheese.) We're a pretty good table; we turn over quickly (usually 30 minutes or less), she's not messy anymore, and I overtip, bigtime. I've been taking her to restaurants pretty frequently since she was 2 weeks old and she does really well, for the most part - only one meltdown in the last few months and that restaurant was empty except for us and one other table. I totally recommend getting your babies used to dining out!