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By Lisa Puster
 Eating out with kids can sometimes be both frustrating and expensive. If there’s no entertainment for the kids at the restaurant, you may be in for a less than relaxing meal plus, eating out with the family can be tough on a budget. Nonetheless, there are those nights when you just don’t feel like cooking or you’re already out and it’s just easier to grab dinner somewhere. Instead of heading for the usual burger joint, here are some different options:
CiCi’s Pizza
www.cicispizza.com
CiCi’s Pizza offers an all you can eat buffet of pizza, pasta, salad, and dessert for $4.99 for adults, $3.49 for ages 4-10, and free for 3 and under. Choose from CiCi’s Classic or Signature pizzas, garlic and cheese bread sticks, a variety of pasta and sauces, an extensive salad bar, and brownies, cinnamon rolls and dessert pizza. All CiCi’s locations provide a game room for the kids, accommodate private parties and some even offer private party rooms.
Chuck E. Cheese’s
10430 Midlothian Turnpike 804-804-330-9865
Chuck E. Cheese’s, with a slogan of Where a Kid Can Be a Kid, provides a safe, wholesome environment for your children to laugh, play and enjoy being kids. Featuring age appropriate games, rides, prizes, and entertainment for everyone from toddlers to big kids, Chuck E. Cheese’s also provides great food for the family including freshly baked pizzas and a garden fresh salad bar. Discount coupons for food and fun are available online at www.chuckecheese.com.
Friendly’s
www.friendlys.com
Friendly’s offers a new kids’ menu with several new entrees and choices of healthy side items. In addition, Friendly’s now features Build Your Own Sundaes where you can choose three scoops of ice cream, two sauce toppings, two crumbly toppings; and then add whip cream and a cherry. Your choices then come to you in a handy, dandy Sundae Maker, where you assemble your Sundae just the way you like it!
Lone Star
10456 Midlothian Turnpike
804-272-0391
www.lonestarsteakhouse.com
Lone Star features seven favorite kids meals, plus the popular steak medallions meal. On Tuesdays, all day, and Saturday from 11a.m.-4p.m., two kids eat free off the kids menu with the purchase of any entrée. Kids meals are served with steak fries, a drink, and ice cream for dessert. Other kids’ menu favorites include the Cookie Wrangler Oreo smoothie, Lickety Split (frozen) Lemonade, and Strawberry Buckaroo, a strawberry and Pina Colada smoothie.
Red Robin
www.redrobin.com
Red Robin is a casual dining restaurant chain, serving an extensive selection of high-quality, gourmet burgers, as well as salads, soups, appetizers, entrees, desserts and signature beverages in a family-friendly atmosphere. All kids’ meals are under $4.50 and include an entrée, side item, drink, coloring menu, crayons, and a balloon. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 6-8pm, kids will enjoy coming out to meet the Red Robin mascot.
River City Diner
11430 West Huguenot Rd.
804-897-9518
River City Diner will give you that feeling of yesteryear as you enter a diner right out of the 50’s. But even better than the fun surroundings is the menu, including the kids’ menu. River City Diner has quite the extensive kids’ fare, offering all the traditional kids’ favorites, plus three breakfast meals, which are served all day. Probably the most popular item on the menu, is RCD’s “Magnificent Milkshakes”, which were voted Best in Richmond.
Spinnaker’s
Chesterfield Towne Center
804-794-0045
5000 Commonwealth Centre Parkway 804-744-6462
www.spinnakersrichmond.com
Spinnaker’s is a locally owned and operated family-friendly restaurant. Featuring over 90 regular menu items, Spinnaker’s also offers a wide variety of kids’ entrees. At the Chesterfield Towne Center location only, kids eat free Monday-Thursday, while the newest location at Commonwealth Centre is a completely non-smoking establishment. Both locations serve Spinnakers famous flower pot bread, which is always a hit with the kids.
Uno Chicago Grill
12211 Jefferson Davis Highway
804-751-0400
13933 Hull Street Road, 804-763-9400
www.unos.com
Uno Chicago Grill, started in Chicago in 1943, and quickly became famous for its Deep Dish Pizza. Uno is still just as popular today and kids are some of the biggest fans. Uno features Make Your Own Pizza where kids are provided with an apron, thin crust pizza dough, sauce and toppings to assemble their own pizza. On Sundays, kids 12 and under pay what they weigh for their meal. |
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