Marimount Cafeteria Credit: Photo By John Anderson

Rachel Feit’s Top 10 Local Restaurants to Take a 2-Year-Old

1. Marimount Cafeteria: There’s something for everyone at this home-style cafeteria. It’s fast, inexpensive, and your child will love the extra-plush highchairs.

2. Juan in a Million: Most 2-year-olds I know love beans, cheese, chips, and guacamole. This place is inexpensive, informal, and always full of kids. The backyard patio is enclosed and offers a great place for little feet to run around while you enjoy your lunch.

3. Central Market Cafe (Lamar): Offers an extensive variety of menu items, outdoor dining, live music, and a (recently upgraded) playground.

4. Hoover’s Cooking: This Southern-style cafe is always bustling. They offer crayons for the little ones and a kid-friendly waitstaff. Kids beg for the macaroni and cheese.

5. Dim Sum at Tien Hong or T&S Seafood: Kids love the fish tanks and the sticky rice.

6. Quality Seafood: Features one of the best seafood restaurants in town in a casual, order-at-the-counter setting.

7. Taco X-Press: Features occasional live music and a homey outdoor patio. Very speedy, inexpensive, and great tacos.

8. El Sol y la Luna: Whenever there’s live music.

9. Artz Rib House: Anytime.

10. Tree House Italian Grill: Eat on the enclosed patio for satisfying Italian cuisine. Kids love spaghetti with tomato sauce, and you can let them run around when they are done.

This article appears in 2002.

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