In Reverance to QueenVic who needs some cheering up!

[Flossam]

I thought last night that it would be nice for us to meet up again soon, a lunch time ish meet with the kids (less organisation required that way!), or if you are lucky enough to be kid free for the day come along anyway! Maybe to see some of the lovely xmas lights around central London. Maybe if JL does have an ad hoc santa to see him too! I went to one of the Giraffe cafe/bars a few weeks ago, which I thought might be a good place to go? Not crowded, not overpowering music, smoke free for the kis, good reasonably priced food and very child friendly. Am open to oher ideas though!

So does anyone have any dates they can/can't do? I really enjoyed our meet up at the weekend and QueenVic is having a bit of a hard time of it at the moment and needs some cheering. Hopefully we will be able to help out and all have a good giggle at the same time.

Thanks Hub . x

Lockets, QV/ highchair needers! I really need to do something about where we should go? I don't think anywhere is going to take kindly to us turning up ad hoc with the number of buggies we will have. As I said, the opera house don't do highchairs. I really don't know where else to suggest. Am panicking a bit!

Im sorry floss - i dont know covent garden or the surrounds very well at all.

Will google though and see what i can find.

Hope you have better luck than me on that front QV. Haven't really seen anywhere yet.

Googled 'family friendly' restaurant 'covent garden'...

Porters English Restaurant
17 Henrietta Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8QH
Tel: 020 7836 6466
Fax: 020 7379 4296
E-mail: [email protected]

Pizza Hut
1A Henrietta Street, WC2 (Italian Cuisine)
Cheap and cheerful pizza chain. Serves an array of thin crust and deep pan American style pizzas, as well as pasta dishes and salads. Family friendly, quick and convenient, everything you want from a fast food chain. more

Moti Mahal
45 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AA Map
Cuisine: Indian
Telephone: 020 7240 9329
Reviewed here: www.london-eating.co.uk/6243.htm

These are all restaurants.

dw found this in the Time Out guide:

Paul
29 Bedford Street
London WC2
Reviewed here: www.coventgarden.uk.com/RRpauls.html

This is more café / bakery IYSWIM

HTH

Wow, that Paul place sounds fab! Cheap and cheerful and lovely. What does everyone else think? Shall I interrogate them about the highchairs? Thanks for those HUb.

Yep - Pauls looks good. Hub is much better at googling than me

Damn. They don't have profiteroles, LOL...

Tempting though: their cakes .

Their phone number is 020 7836 5321. Give 'em a shout and check if they have highchairs and if they can take a group our size (I imagine there will be a few drop-outs / no-shows on the day, including possibly me). Something like this would be a good choice though as people can turn up at different times, and it's informal etc.

I imagine if they can't offer you a booking though it might not work because I imagine it gets pretty full...

Does anyone work near this place or know it ? Does it get madly busy ?

QV - it was from the PAPER Time Out guide, LOL... I didn't even know we had it. . Luckily dw is good with RL, LOL.

Thanks Hub. Will ring in the morning. Thought if I booked for 10 then that should be alright. Can always try for more if needed. Try and come and bring DD would be lovely to meet her. Does she need a boyfriend? Does she like older (well a good 6 months!) men?

you still came up with 2 or 3 others and i hadnt found one yet!

Floss - if its too much of a mare, pizza hut is fine with me - im not a restaurant snob - they definitely have highchairs.

I know Vic, but it's a bit of a in joke between my friend and I - we always end up there! Have renamed it piaza Hieut. In best posh London suburbs mickey take.

yeah, pizza hut is always a good one just in case.....

argh, getting really nervous now. will be my first meet up.

Well I've met a few at the last one and I can promise you they were all lovely.

phew!!!!!

actually getting excited now, but... just a qst, how do we know we're coming up to the right bunch of ppl???? I don't have a clue what anyone looks like.... don't want to infiltrate some mother's union meet up!!!!

Trust me you will know! If you want, CAT me and I will give you my mob number, so you can phone if unsure.

I think I know Paul's and if I'm right, it's quite small inside ... but it looks very nice. I don't know how long you'd want to spend just in that one place though.

What did anyone think of my suggestion of British Museum? I know it's not Covent Garden, but does it have to be? They've got a line of high chairs and it's very easy going. It will be more sandwich / snack type of thing than 'proper' food, but it's great for kids. Especially the mobile ones.

Or Rainforest Cafe in Picadilly? Made for kids, downstairs with thundery rainy effects, nice nooks and crannies, not ridiculously priced prob no more than the dreaded Pizza Hut. I'm not a fan of P.H., they're so cramped inside.

Look at Rainforest Cafe here

i've always wanted to try there - shame dd won't be with me (ha ha, not that i'm looking forward to it!!!)

Actually maybe it is too expensive ...

we could default to pizza hut, nice and cheap with buffet....

Would pizza hut allow me and dd to just come in and have a drink and dessert do you think? Dd won't eat pizza. But I'm thinking of giving her a packed lunch on the way as she's usually ravenous immediately after school and won't survive the bus journey into town otherwise!

they have pasta and salad in the buffet too... dd generally eats those rather than the pizza (yet it's the pizza she yackers on about, strange) when we go there.

but with the number of us eating, i am pretty sure they won't mind you doing whatever.....

DH and I are planning to go to London Zoo with DS on Monday after meeting up in the morning - British Museum sounds very good to us.

Ah, thread's moved on whilst I was researching tube stations and 2 for 1 offers to London Zoo - LOL!