Baby Friendly Restaurants

As we try to take M out to more restaurants, I am starting to note which places are more baby friendly. The trend is to go to less "fancy" restaurants, and more "chain" restaurants. Shopping mall food courts always work.

Barney's Gourmet Hamburger (on 24th St, San Francisco, CA; hopefully they'll renew their domain name which expired on 2/27/06)
Small restaurant with non-carpeted floors creats a relatively loud environment to mask out baby noises. Spicy curly fries are yummy.

BJ's Restaurant & Brewery (Tanforan Shopping Center in San Bruno or SSF; also located at Bridgepointe Shopping Center in San Mateo, CA , and Lahaina, Hawaii)
This place is famous for their Chicago style deep dish pizza. Yummy! The restaurant at Tanforan Shopping Center has music to mask out any loud baby sounds and the TV screens are a nice distraction for baby.

Elephant Bar Restaurant (Serramonte Shopping Center, Daly City, CA)
Predictable food in a wonderfully noisy enviroment (music & conversational white noise) that is perfect for drowning out baby/toddler noises.

Crepevine (on Burlingame Ave in Burlingame, CA)
Delicious crepes served with potatos & salad on the side. Music is fairly loud which drowns out baby noises. Baby changing station in restroom (one room). Lots of high chairs available.

Max's Opera Cafe (in Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA)
Decent food; you'll never leave hungry. Music drowns out baby noises.

Mimi's Cafe (in Bridgepointe Shopping Center in San Mateo, CA)
There's a lot of stuff on the walls for baby to look at. Moderate noise level, plus lots of patrons bring their babies/toddlers so it's not TOO quiet such that people will be bothered by baby noises. They offer a small plate of cheerios & crackers for babies/toddlers, and they have an activity place mat to keep toddlers occupied. Restaurant at Bridgepoint Shopping Center has a changing table in the handicap restroom stall.

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