Visiting London next week - good places for kids to eat?

[Detta]

Last time we did the Rainforest cafe, which was great but looking for somewhere different. DD 9 and DS 3. Anyone have any good suggestions? Thanks.

giraffe is good child-friendly chain, with nice food for adults too.

Pizza express on the South Bank - just down from the Globe - great views of the river. Handy for Tate modern, the Golden Hinde, The Clink or whatever. And in that area, some of Borough Market is open on Fridays, and much less crowded than Saturdays.

Wagamama

wagamama, if they're into noodles. ds, 4, adores it.

giraffe. the ones I know of are on on Kensington High St, Islington, and by Spitalfields. Am sure there will be many more!!

Oh HC, see you there

I know some people may not like it but Spaghetti House is usually quite good. The staff are very good with children.

Which part of London are you visiting?

Giraffe is lovely theres also Garfunkels, my daughter loves it, they do reasonably priced kids meals, adults meals are ok but best thing is they serve alcohol! there is one on regents street and one near Trafalgar square, loads of others but can't think where. If you are going to be near knightsbridge planet harrods is great for kids, the meals are a good price, I think £5 inc drink and they do fab ice cream sundaes!

absolutely bp! we go to the islington one the most....

If you're in north London, the La Porchetta pizza restaurants (Muswell Hill and Crouch End and Islington) are great. The lovely Italian waiters make a real fuss of the kids. Easy on the eye too

Wagamama is popular in our house and so is dim sum at Chuen Cheng Ku in Chinatown.
The hot chicken wraps from Borough Market, eaten on a bench in Southwark Cathedral Gardens, can't be beaten on a sunny day (yes even in Feb).

Harrods kids cafe

another vote for Wagamamas and the dim sum (my and dd1s fave, dd2 and dh not so keen)

my kids love tapas

there's a good tapas place on earl's court road called La Gallega Rueda

I did indeed meet HC at Wagamama in Islington, when I had escaped the office with a friend looking for a good moaning session.

It was a little hard to explain how HC and I had come to meet - in fact I could feel my professional credibility slipping away from me, the more I tried to explain

It was great to see HC though, and she has the best mannered little boy I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and a gorgeous babe too

There's also a La Porchetta in Camden Town. My dd loves Wagamama, too.

agree with giraffe, wagamama, pizza and tapas suggestions. we also like nando's.

Banners in crouch end

Slight diversion....How old are the children who like Wagamama, and what do they like to eat there?

There's a new one close by, but I hadn't seriously thought of it as a possible destination with dd....who's almost 5...

dh LOVES nandos bk

both mine (6 and 3) LOVE wagamamas

they have the noodles with veg (for kids) they usually just eat the noodles though

they also Lurrrrrrrrve those beans you eat out of the pods and I always get two mini bowls and give them some of my ramen soup.

My dd is 2.5, and LOVES soupy noodles! I think she just enjoys anything that she can slurp.

There's often a queue to get into Giraffe's.

What about the cafes in the Science Museum and Natural History museum? Good day out too!

we are going there (Science Museum) on Sunday

Banners? No way!

the cafe at the V&A is lovely (Valrhona hot choc anyone?)