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Best Family Restaurant: Giraffe
By Catherine O'Dolan on 27/05/2011 15:55:04
Juliette Joffe, co-owner of Giraffe restaurants, offers her tips for family-friendly dining
. Bobby Flay’s Boy Meets Grill is also great. It has been a great inspiration when introducing our delicious skewer menu at the new Soho Giraffe.What’s your favourite restaurant and why? A particular favourite is a beachside restaurant we visit regularly
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Shock, horror! Restaurant Bans Children
By Catherine O'Dolan on 11/10/2010 18:11:17
Your toddler's in meltdown mode in a crowded restaurant – do we expect tolerance or tuts from fellow diners?
SCREAMING CHILDREN WILL not be tolerated” was the bold proclamation recently posted in the windows on Olde Salty restaurant in North Carolina. The reaction has polarized opinion, with many diners in favour of the restriction, while others feel
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Best Family Restaurant Winner: PizzaExpress
By Catherine O'Dolan on 27/05/2011 16:51:13
Emma Woods, Marketing Director of PizzaExpress, winners of the Best Restaurant category of the Junior Design Awards, shares her tips on family-friendly dining
’s your favourite cookbook and why? Nigel Slator's Real Food - foolproof recipes and delicious. What’s your favourite restaurant and why? Now that's a difficult one… I think it might have to be PizzaExpress Reigate, as that's where I've had the most happy
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Podium Restaurant
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/04/2010 13:54:11
Fine eating at the London Hilton on Park Lane
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
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The highs and lows of restaurant dining with children
By Catherine O'Dolan on 30/09/2010 18:30:52
You've taken your seats at table, and you're ready to start your family dining experience, but are your fellow diners pleased – or appauled – to see children at the table?
Read our helpful guide to identify friend or foe:* The kindly elderly couple The sweet elderly couple who can't keep their eyes off you. Probably have grandchildren of their own (who may live far away and they don't get to see them often) and your cherub evokes a memory of one of...
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Healthy Feta Salad: A favourite family recipe from Giraffe restaurant
By Catherine O'Dolan on 27/05/2011 17:18:14
Juliette Joffe, co-owner of Giraffe restaurant, shares one of her favourite family dishes
This recipe is taken from The Giraffe Family Cookcook by Hugo Arnold (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £14.99). With lots of fresh vegetables, a little cheese for protein and Giraffe's famous house dressing, this is a summer salad with crunch, attitude and colour.Ingredients200g feta chee...
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Best Family Restaurant: The Rooftop at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
By Catherine O'Dolan on 25/05/2011 13:51:16
Rob Fredrickson, Head Of Catering at the Royal Shakespeare Company and father of two, shares his tips for happy family dining
of Provencal Rosé! I think the children would love the Haribo Jellies we feature on our Little Menu at the RSC Rooftop restaurant.How often do you eat as a family? As often as possible, but working life can make that hard so every available opportunity is taken
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Four simple rules for restaurant dining with children
By Catherine O'Dolan on 30/09/2010 18:30:52
The essential ingredients to happy family dining courtesy of Sara Galvin
of time you spend in restaurants, rather than go for the long lunch early on, the children will see it as a more positive experience and grow into it.3. Often children will listen to someone else other than their parent! Therefore, if your child
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Atul Kochhar
By Catherine O’Dolan on 17/04/2010 18:02:20
Q&A with the head chef at Benares Restaurant and Bar in Mayfair
Atul Kochhar, father of Amisha, six, and Arjun, four, reveals family secrets: What’s your earliest food memory?Fruits are my favorite – have always been. Eating mangoes, sitting beside a deep cool well on a hot summer evening with my family in Jamshedpur, in east India where I...
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Parisian-style family dining (& celeb spotting) at Le Relais de Venise in Marylebone
By Catherine O'Dolan on 21/07/2010 17:11:17
There's no menu but the food is great at this family-friendly restaurant that's great for celebrity spotting
, the restaurant was busy with a very much family orientated clientele: suited grandfathers and well-heeled grandmothers were dining en famille with their children and grandchildren, all no doubt elegantly attired from the chic local boutiques like Bonpoint
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