Best Places to eat with Kids in Stafford

[Tants]

Yes!

Well no, in the daytime its acceptable if they're with adults and having a meal together, if the children are well behaved and the adults are not busy getting hammered!

There are lots of pubs that welcome kids like the Red Hill or the Seven Stars, take them there.....restaurants and bistros to take them to.....why take them to a pub when there are plenty of other places to take them?

I know I sound like a mardy old moo, but when I go out to pubs into town, I arrange for a babysitter, I don't then expect to have to put up someone elses offspring running round causing havoc- I go for the adult company, if I wanted to be surrounded by kids I would stay at home!

I never said it had to be pubs. I started the thread for recommendations on places to go....what you should have done is tell us more about Red Hill and Seven Stars. I'd rather hear where we can go as appose to where we wouldn't be welcome!

 

[Withnail]

....what you should have done is tell us more about ... Seven Stars. I'd rather hear where we can go as appose to where we wouldn't be welcome!

Seven Stars and Barley Mow have the advantage of having quite good playgrounds outside - and 'Wackys' if the weather is inclement. The one at Jn 13 whos name escapes has a very good indoor playground, don't know whether 'Wacky' style payments are necessary there though.

Food is tolerable if you are tolerant.

 

[peggy]

the soup kitchen is very good. They have toy boxes, books, colouring etc and a childrens menu with even a babys "dinner"

 

[littleme]

I'd rather hear where we can go as appose to where we wouldn't be welcome!

Indeed, just voicing my opinion on children in pubs to Bob...

Radford Bank has an outside play area, and of course bargain carverys

 

[zebidee]

We tend to go out around 5.30 for meals, that's when our family is hungry, that way we avoid miserable people who don't like exuberant children AND we get home in time for bed. Job done. I personally don't like seeing little kids out late at night anyway, they always look either zoned out or hyperactive :s

 

[Bob]

There is always Pizza Hut or Frankie & Bennies.

 

[ChrisLewis]

Can you really object to kids (as long as they're well behaved) in a town centre pub, in the day time?



I’ll admit I don't like it in the evenings, mainly because it means we're paying a babysitter and don't want to be dealing with the offspring of people who haven't bothered.



I always find the swan to be good but they do have couple of things that make life very difficult if you have a baby, such as having to go to reception to get a key for the baby changing facilities, then when you're done you have to take it back again, it might sound like nothing but with a 4 month old and a four year old it's just hassle you don't need. Also I don't much like their policy of not giving you water to warm a bottle, they have a bottle warmer but it has to leave your possession and I don't like it, also half the time you have to go and find someone 15 mins later in order to get it back. They say it's and insurance issue but every other place manages perfectly well and again it just eliminates a hassle that isn’t needed.



As mentioned above – Number 15



The Creperie is also welcoming for children, although a little tricky to manoeuvre with a push chair, although isn’t yet licenced.



Pizza Express are also very accommodating.

Thanks for the feedback - so a quick answer & a quick fix, not a problem to start giving hot water out for bottle warming, but we will also look at getting a couple of bottle warmers, because I guarantee someone will scald themselves at some stage and blame us!

With regards the baby change, we do keep it locked just because it is so easy to walk straight through The Swan and use our facilities and not for the intended purposes - I'm sure I don't need to elaborate!!
However we do have plans to upgrade the loos in The Swan at some stage and we will then make more provision for baby change.

Thanks for the feedback

 

[Bob]

Thanks for the feedback - so a quick answer & a quick fix, not a problem to start giving hot water out for bottle warming, but we will also look at getting a couple of bottle warmers, because I guarantee someone will scald themselves at some stage and blame us!

With regards the baby change, we do keep it locked just because it is so easy to walk straight through The Swan and use our facilities and not for the intended purposes - I'm sure I don't need to elaborate!!
However we do have plans to upgrade the loos in The Swan at some stage and we will then make more provision for baby change.

Thanks for the feedback

It would take a really special kind of person to scald themselves and then blame you for it, do you get that happening often with cups of tea?

I am aware of it happening at McDonalds at some point, now all their hot drinks have a warning on the cup!

I'd much prefer the hot water, my daughter likes her bottles hotter than the bottle warmer gets them (if it's too cold she just holds the milk in her mouth and most of it ends up down her chin and neck). I promise I wont complain if I spill it on myself!

I must admit I have on the odd occasion used the facalities when I haven't been a customer, but I am also a fairly regular customer (breakfast once or twice a month, lunch once or twice a month, evening drinks and/or meals every time we come into town which isn't quite as often as I'd like) so please don't hold it against me.

 

[tek-monkey]

It would take a really special kind of person to scald themselves and then blame you for it, do you get that happening often with cups of tea?

You have been to Stafford?

Honestly though, just look at all the "I found this stuff in my food and I was about to eat it, I'm traumatised" stories to see how big a problem it is. Today someones daughter was mentally scarred for life for finding some cow hair in a lasagna. A lasagne made by her own mum, but with frozen minced beef. How the **** do you not see the clump of hair when browning the mince you goddam mouth breather?!?!?! If there was something bigger than a lump of mince in mine I'd spot it, I'm amazed others can't. Then there was the dead bird in the salad, they were having a romantic meal so the lights were low and they didn't spot it till they almost ate it! Err, surely you cooked in the light you retard? The UK public is only slightly behind the US in the thick as pigshit/wanting compensation stakes nowadays unfortunately.

Sorry, rant over, but suffice to say I can see Chris's point!

 

[Gramaisc]

You have been to Stafford?

Honestly though, just look at all the "I found this stuff in my food and I was about to eat it, I'm traumatised" stories to see how big a problem it is. Today someones daughter was mentally scarred for life for finding some cow hair in a lasagna. A lasagne made by her own mum, but with frozen minced beef. How the **** do you not see the clump of hair when browning the mince you goddam mouth breather?!?!?! If there was something bigger than a lump of mince in mine I'd spot it, I'm amazed others can't. Then there was the dead bird in the salad, they were having a romantic meal so the lights were low and they didn't spot it till they almost ate it! Err, surely you cooked in the light you retard? The UK public is only slightly behind the US in the thick as pigshit/wanting compensation stakes nowadays unfortunately.

Sorry, rant over, but suffice to say I can see Chris's point!

I agree completely - a career in Public Relations beckons, I feel...

... perhaps Front of House at the Swan..?

 

[United57]

I thought this discussion said "best place to eat kids" I need my eyes testing

 

[Gramaisc]

I thought this discussion said "best place to eat kids" I need my eyes testing

In Harvey's bookshop, when it was there in Market Street, right at the back, in the Cookery section, I once was saw a book called 'Cooking for Babies', but, presumably to increase the shelf-shout, they had reduced the word 'for'...

COOKING
FOR
BABIES

I did wonder for a moment.

 

[Carole]

I can see Bobs point though.

What is the difference between hot tea or hot coffee (which they serve quite happily and without a warning or disclaimer) and hot water, which for some reason is extremely dangerous.

Or why are they worried about being sued over water but not when it's got a teabag in it?

 

[Withnail]

What is the difference between hot tea or hot coffee (which they serve quite happily and without a warning or disclaimer) and hot water...

From personal experience it can mean the difference between being a Rocketing Rabbit or merely a Bobbing Bobcat.

An Ambling Armadillo writes...

 

[John Marwood]

I can see Bobs point though.

What is the difference between hot tea or hot coffee (which they serve quite happily and without a warning or disclaimer) and hot water, which for some reason is extremely dangerous.

Or why are they worried about being sued over water but not when it's got a teabag in it?

Depends where you are

Hot water is hotter in different locations

 

[John Marwood]

Death Valley hot water would be hotter than Stafford hot water

Water boils at 95.5 degrees at the West Bromwich Albion ground but only 75 degrees if you want char atop Everest

Writes Steaming J Hawkins

 

[Withnail]

I was going to relate a story about my one and only visit to The Hawthorns - but am feeling under a bit of pressure not to.

 

[John Marwood]

I was going to relate a story about my one and only visit to The Hawthorns - but am feeling under a bit of pressure not to.

Did you climb a floodlight and see the Urals?

 

[Eden Percy]

Catch Corner at Jct13.
Red Hill at Jct14.
Both have indoor kids adventure play grounds.

 

[United57]

There are some of us who want best places to eat without somebody else's snotty nosed kid screaming next to you whilst parents carry on drinking oblivious !