NYC Restaurants Where Kids Can Play
Submitted by Petek on
A few weeks ago, a reader emailed us and asked if we knew about any New York City restaurants where kids could play while parents ate. As she so bluntly put it: "My almost three-year-old boy wants nothing to do with sitting quietly." We've so been there.
While there are plenty of family-friendly restaurants in NYC, when it comes to keeping kids occupied, usually all they have to offer are crayons, coloring pages and maybe a chalkboard. So we set out to find places where kids can actually play, and we were pretty shocked by what we discovered. Most of the city's eat-and-play restaurants have closed over the past few years, including Boerum Hill's Cafe Boo Bah with its giant Duplo wall and Park Slope's PSbklyn, which had an arcade on its lower level. There are still restaurants that feature kids' entertainment, like sing-alongs, storytimes and magic shows, but very few with straight-up playtime.
Before you resign yourself to dining at Dave & Buster's or Chuck E. Cheese's, we did come up with three NYC restaurants that offer good food and fun for kids—one even has multiple locations in Manhattan.