Healthiest restaurants for 14 month old

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Can anyone recommend any restaurants that have good healthy options for children? Will be in a main city centre so most chains available. Specifically Glasgow if anyone can recommend any independent places 😊

I tend to go to an Italian and order a tomato or veg pasta for mine. The lentil ragu in Zizzis is popular with mine

For a 14 month old I would just take my own food for them in Tupperware etc. Restaurants don't mind that at all.

I have a 20 month old and a now 6 year old. I recall with the older one - and now with little one - we have never bothered with such things. We travel lots (without covid of course) owing to my work and go out lots. They eat the most suitable item amongst what we find.

Example - for Diwali we went to a fab Indian restaurant (I am Indian). 20 month old ate steamed rice, bit of butter and some lentils and chewed eagerly on a hot wheat chapati. 6 year old ate similar but with grilled chicken tikkas.

We went to Japan for my work when older one was 10 months. We ate out at sushi and ramen restaurant regularly and 10 month picked on boiled noodles or veggies out of bowls of ramen alongside his normal milk and crackers.

I wouldn’t get restaurants based on kids so young. Choose a lovely spot and give them something from the sides they can crunch on and explore the sights smells absolutely sounds with you :)

I also took our own food at that age.

If you can't do that, the pizza places do things like bread and hummus or veggie dip for little ones.

We do a lot of Wagamamas and sushi bars with ours.
We also though do a lot of pizza express, zizis and pub food. Sometimes a nice restaurant and will pick the fish.
Unfortunately I've found a lot of childrens menus aren't great, there's a lot of chicken nuggets!

I second the PP who said take your own. Ours are too old for that now, but at 14 months I'd have taken some pasta or fish mashed up with peas and mash potato in a thermos soup flask. We now do this for picnics and zoos etc when we don't want to pay for lunch

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At that age you can go to any restaurant, barring places with super spicy food. We used to order whatever we wanted and get an extra plate for them. Until they reached two or three and became super fussy for a year or 2!

I think just take your own food for that age. Some sandwiches or similar. Otherwise mine are 3 and 5 and love Wagamama, sushi, pizza express, Carluccios x

Thanks all 😊 will be out from mid morning until DSs normal bath/bed routine so was planning breakfast at home, take his lunch and order something for his dinner so I’m not too laden down with food 😅
He’s a great eater and literally eats anything we eat minus the spice and salt so should be able to find something for him 😊 just keen to avoid the salt/processed stuff as much as possible.

You could buy some bits at the shops after lunch maybe? Replenish your stock as it were

Wagamamas can be pretty good too ime. I have taken a 12mo there and he had fish, veg and rice pretty plain.

McDonalds?

There's a league table of high street restaurants called Out to Lunch, compiled by the Soil Association. Not sure when it was last updated, but there are some surprises in the top 10 (Wetherspoons, for example).

Based on nutrition, absence of fizzy drinks/excess sugar and things like availability of child-sized cutlery.

Ask Italian had a good toddler menu when we last ate out there - brought out veg sticks & dip as soon as we sat down and then had a basic tomato pasta. At 14months though I would just choose somewhere you like and pull bits off your plate for him.

I liked cafe rouge when they were little, as they had things like omelette on the kids menu.
And Wagamama where they’d have the chicken thing with some rice and cucumber and carrot on the side.

I wouldn't decide on a restaurant around my 14 month old ! Jesus go where u like and take a lunch box with you they are oblivious at that age anyway

@AreYouRightThereSkippy Wagamama would usually be mine and DHs restaurant of choice for a quick chain restaurant type meal so good to know they have a decent kids menu! I just wasn’t sure how plain it would be with DS being so young. I’m saying that, they’ve always been super accommodating so I’m sure they’d happily make something plain for him!

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I wouldn't decide on a restaurant around my 14 month old ! Jesus go where u like and take a lunch box with you they are oblivious at that age anyway

@Skyla2005 I would 🤷🏻‍♀️ We’re all different.

Wagamama's child meals are good. Mine has been demolishing them since he was 12 months.