London

Blue Kangaroo
Blue Kangaroo is a unique family restaurant and adventure play centre designed with children and adults in mind. The restaurant has a high-quality and varied menu packed with healthy, organic and tasty food. Children can join you for a meal in the restaurant or run riot in the play zone downstairs while you keep and eye on them on a big screen and enjoy your meal. There's also the Blue Kangaroo Café, where the same menu is served as well as breakfast, snacks and pastries, and you can see directly into the play areas.
Where: 555 Kings Road, London SW6 2EB
Web:Blue Kangaroo (www.thebluekangaroo.co.uk/)

Marine Ices
Situated in London's famous Camden Town, Marine Ices is a fabulous family-friendly restaurant, very popular with locals. Opened in 1930, Marine Ices serves delicious, freshly prepared Italian food, but is most famous for its speciality ices - thought by many to be the best in London. The friendly, welcoming and relaxed atmosphere make this a wonderful place for a family meal, and together with the food and ices make you see why this restaurant has been a family favourite for over 75 years.
Where: 8 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 2BL
Web:Marine Ices (www.marineices.co.uk/index.html)

Frizzante at Hackney City Farm
This lively and energetic restaurant is a favourite of families all over London. With the sounds of chickens clucking around outside, the Frizzante Café is a great place for children and adults alike. The skilled Italian chefs prepare delicious traditional and modern Mediterranean dishes that children love using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Take the children around the farm to visit the animals and take part in the various activities going on before sitting down and relaxing at this lovely café.
Where: 1a Goldsmiths Row, London E2 8QA
Web:Frizzante at Hackney City Farm (www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk/docs/cafe/)

Benihana
For a meal with a difference, take your family to Benihana, the global teppanyaki chain founded by ex-Olympic wrestler Rocky Aoki. Choose one of the set meals and watch your food be prepared in front of you by one of the highly skilled Benihana chefs. Your children will be wide-eyed with amazement as the chefs go to work and doing tricks with food you never thought possible, like creating an onion volcano with real flames. Children also get spring-loaded chopsticks to help them along.
Where: Locations all over London
Web:Benihana (www.benihana.co.uk/)

Giraffe
Giraffe is a family friendly restaurant committed to bringing you and your family fresh, wholesome healthy dishes. The kid's menu serves a variety of yummy food and includes lots of vegetarian options and a kid's grill. The menu is a delicious mix of foods from all over the world and the specials are always offering new and tasty dishes to try. Giraffe restaurants always have plenty of room for pushchairs, helpful for parents with young children.
Where: Locations all over London
Web:Giraffe (www.giraffe.net/index.php)

Rainforest Café
Your kids will love the Rainforest Café, a tropical hideaway in the heart of London's West End. Both the adults and kids menus offer a range of tasty meals with a jungle theme, which continues into the café itself. Look around and you'll see life-sized animals in the trees around you, and watch out because they might start to move! The menus cater for gluten, dairy and egg-free diets and have several organic options too.
Where: 20 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 7EU
Web:Rainforest Café (www.therainforestcafe.co.uk/index.asp)