Children Welcome? Absolutely not our son! He didn't even have the honor to be seated properly.
Today my husband and I stopped by at the restaurant with our 16-month-old at around 12:30pm for brunch. The restaurant was less than 50% filled. However, the waitress, completely ignored the many empty tables available at that time, and said to the butler (or ""junior waiter"") that the only table she has available for us is the little one half hidden under a short staircase rail. And she added that she has no high chair for us. And, yes, she didn't even bother to talk to us DIRECTLY even though we were standing only 2ft away from the butler she was talking to.
That table has less space than a regular table for two, and definitely has no room for an extra small plate for our son - who like an average 16-month-old is eating significant amount of table food and needs at least a small space on the table to himself.
I asked more specifically that we need a bigger space than that and the waitress repeated basically the same thing to the butler. So we walked out of the restaurant.
My husband and I had dined at this restaurant frequently before we had our son, and it's a bit shocking that we're treated this way today.
This kind of incident had never happened to us in Forest Hills, Manhattan or anywhere else. And ironically, this restaurant claims ""Children Welcome"" on the homepage of its website!!
Pros: reasonably priced. excellent drinks.
Cons: not baby friendly at all!!!
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