Just come back from a lovely relaxing week away in the Lake District and sadly one experience I wonder if anyone else has suffered. My partner is a celiac and so looks for gluten free food and noticed in Ambleside a Japanese restaurant serving gluten free food. Excited about trying it, we went along on Thursday evening and walked in with his parents and our two year 8 month old daughter.
The lady gave us a strange look and we asked for a table for four plus our daughter chair or high chair both fine. She said sorry there is no availability so my partner asked for when the next available table was taking into account it was only 7:15pm, she said there is nothing for you you have to go somewhere else.
Immediately when we walked out he said I suspect from her body language she is discriminating against us for having a child with us(very well behaved one) and so he asked me as I had not spoken to the lady to call in ten minutes and ask if a table was available. When I rang she said yes there is a table available straight away then asked me to hold the line, she came back and said if you have a child under 10 years old this restaurant is not suitable for them. I was stunned and close to tears that someone would treat us like this for having a well behaved child with us.
All over the Lake District we had no problems with taking our child into nice restaurants, I am so appalled that she had to lie to us and would not say inside that they don't want children in the restaurant, to lie is unforgivable. I hope anyone else visiting the Lake District avoids this Japanese restaurant in Ambleside and doesn't have to experience the same situation.
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