Anonymous wrote:I find Ted's to be completely overrated in every way. The food is not amazing, the service is not reliably good, and the weekend brunch no-res situation have put it on our permanent brunch blacklist.

+1

I will also add that it has the worst coffee I have ever had a restaurant, anywhere. McDonald's has better coffee. I sent back the first pot thinking it had just been sitting too long.... nope. Just the world's worst coffee.

I think it is the 10 am brunch time that is not kid-friendly. We live on Capitol Hill and if we want to go to Ted's, we leave the house early (since our toddler gets up at 6:30) and get a table as soon as they open at 7:00 am. No wait and the place is quiet. We don't try to go out to eat anywhere in the middle of a weekend morning. This isn't about a place not being kid-friendly, its about you needing to think through your timing a bit better.

Classic example of breeder mentality.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Me again. Or maybe my definition of kid friendly is different than most... 90 minute wait and crappy service in my mind is not kid friendly. We will stick with known quantities instead of following the crowd from now on.

You tried to get a table for a party of 6 during brunch. What did you expect?

I expected the 45 minute wait they told me when I called, or the 10 minute wait they told me when I arrived. Even allowing them to underestimate by 20-30 minutes they were way off.