With a car-mad four-year-old (and his daddy) in tow, there was always a chance that we were never actually going to make it into the restaurant when there is one of Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One racing cars in the foyer to drool over. But that’s just

and an activity sheet for playing a game of spot-the-dish, four-year-old Joseph was in his element. Appointing himself as the one in charge of picking everyone’s chosen dish from the conveyor belt – as well as being super-attentive in the refilling of water

, drawing games, take a little bag of tricks with you so that they are completely occupied, but you do need to join in with their activity.2. Have it in your mind that you will only stay for two courses and then see how you go. If you build up the amount

or beef, rice or noodles with broccoli or edamame giving a nod to your five a day. As Grace, 13, and Joe, four, settled in to ‘spot the difference’ on the activity sheet, we nibbled on a selection of Dim Sum with little parcels of steamed fish, meat

How inspired by some clever individual to name this lofty restaurant after one of the Seven Wonders of the world. Aiming high, for sure, but then you wouldn’t expect anything less from an establishment owned by Richard Branson. High up

potato and butternut squash (£3.30).There’s also a cute new mascot Hoshi, which means “Star” in Japanese, designed by those creative folk at Okido magazine. In tune with this funky Japanese theme, your child can enjoy fun Noodle Doodle activities, with a

felt I'd got the short straw by facing the restaurant rather than St James’s Park, until I realised that actually I could still enjoy the magnificent greenery of the ancient trees above the duck pond, the pods of the London Eye and Charles’ Union Jack