Restaurants where kids can play freely (Houston, Mission: 2014, home, babysitters)

[groovamos]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Restaurants are not intended to be playgrounds. If you want them to run around, go to a place with a ball pit.

What a useless reply, not to mention wrong on the assumption. Restaurants are intended to serve people and make money, including people with family in tow. I mean why bother when there are people here to help.

Uburrito on Durham south of I-10 west side of street has a fine covered deck and an adjacent small play area with sand and playground equipment. Their model is you come in and build your own burrito. The ingredients are high quality and they have 4~5 kinds of tortillas. Good food for the money, not exactly fast food, but you watch your burrito being made so it is pretty time efficient going in and out. Have a beer while kids play, assuming you save half your burrito for home and don't stuff yourself.

The former name of the place was Mission Burrito.

[westhou]

Originally Posted by houston-nomad

Based on the number of parents who are interested in this sort of thing, your concept of the business model would appear to be limited.

There's nothing wrong with some restaurants following a traditional model, in which families and other people all sit at tables, and some restaurants setting up opportunities for parents to relax and socialize while their kids play.

It seems to me that people in this country often get into a real snit about the fact that children exist.

As long as the kid is well behaved I see nothing wrong with them being at restaurants. The few that are being a pain I tend to feel worse for the parent having to endure their whining. As long as I'm not at their table they are pretty easy to ignore. I'm not a fan of kids and tend to avoid them as much as possible but I can admit that I've never been bothered by one while out eating. It's the adults that tend to be more obnoxious after they've had a few too many to drink and start getting loud.

[azinwood]

what we are building is a list of restaurants to avoid.

[Liljo22]

Little Matt's in the West U area is very kid friendly. They have a small arcade and iPads setup to play. They also give proceeds to house families who are in town for their child's cancer treatments.

[texas7]

While barnabys museum district has no playground, it is family friendly. That is fine, but when I ate there a couple of Saturdays ago, inside table, a couple's children were running down the rows of tables and their toddler came to our table -- only tall enough that only visible from the eye up above the table -- he stood there the entire time we ordered. I like kids but parents should keep them at their own table. Quite annoying when they don't.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Restaurants are not intended to be playgrounds. If you want them to run around, go to a place with a ball pit.

This chat is intended for people who have knowledge on these sort of things. You've don't so just don't say anything. There's plenty of restaurants that let you keep an eye on your children while you play.

[jerbear30]

Having a kid, I can totally relate to the need for this list. This list is not for parents who bring their obnoxious kids to a restaurant where the kid is not welcome. It's the opposite--it's just a resource for parents who want to bring their kid to the right restaurant, where everybody is happy. I don't get the criticism. And like azinwood says, you can use it to know what to avoid if you want to. Keep the suggestions coming...

[texasroots77]

New Beavers on westheimer

[Liljo22]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

This chat is intended for people who have knowledge on these sort of things. You've don't so just don't say anything. There's plenty of restaurants that let you keep an eye on your children while you play.

Most people that make comments like that forget how awfu their kids were when they were young.

[lipbalm]

Originally Posted by Liljo22

Most people that make comments like that forget how awfu their kids were when they were young.

My kids are older now, but they were never annoying to others even when young. My pet peeve is when I'm at a booth and the kid next to us just decides to invade our space by leering over. Geez, keep your fing kid to yourself, no not everyone thinks it's cute.