Restaurants With Playscapes
September 19th 2011 Posted at Restaurants
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One of the challenges we faced as new parents was what to do on those nights when you just need to go out and grab a quick bite ? no time to plan for a sitter or make reservations. Nothing in the fridge, too tired to slice and dice, or an all too common scenario in our household: ?Wait, I thought YOU were doing dinner tonight!?? When our child was a baby, this was fairly easy ? pop him in the car seat, pop him into a high chair, and keep the zwieback coming. As he got older, it got harder. We of course insist on good manners, but what three and half year old (or four, five or six, for that matter) can sit perfectly still and quiet, even with crayons and a funny menu? Lots of them you say? Good on ya! Not ours! To preserve the family dining night out traditio Beverley Restaurants n, we learned quickly that a place with a playscape could accommodate our need for dinner out with a three year old?s need to get his ya-ya?s out. Austinites are particularly lucky in this regard, because so much of the year is outdoor weather for us, and so many great places for family dining are out there. Here are our current favorite places to eat that have playscapes. Southpark Meadows: I had, shall we say, ?issues? with finding good food and play in a shopping center, but this place rocks. The playscapes are HUGE and inventive ? woven through enormous shade trees, with slides galores. There is a fantastic little area where water shoots up from the ground ? so perfect for letting the little guys cool off. They even have live music outside, periodically.