As thierlittleworld.com searches out the top London resturants for kids, we have recruited mini-critics to anonomyously accompany us on our resturant judgements.
For our second mini-critic resturant outing, we chose to try another South American resturant, this time, one that focused on all Latin American food, resturant chain, Las Iguanas.
he mini-critics had been at the London Aquarium before our meal, so they had worked up quite an appitite running about inside. When we arrived, there was no one in the resturant as it was not quite lunch hour for businesses.As soon as we were seated, our waiter brought us kids menus, crayons and markers and quickly took a drinks order.
The children’s menu features smaller portions than the main menu, with prices about half of what they would be on the adults menu…they even have FREE Organic bay food for your tiniest ones.
The colouring sheet featured Spanish and Portugugese learn-while-you-colour games and the mini-critics got stuck into learning the Spanish word for ‘sun’, doing crossword puzzles, drawing self portraits annd colouring in various themed objects.
The menu, for both adults and children is full, we knew it would take us quite a while to decide what we would have, so we ordered Narchos to start off with and in the mean time, the kids sipped on thier child sized fizzy drinks and drew.
The kids menu is organized into two sections, the Nino’s Menu, which includes a main course, drink and dessert and the under 12’s menu which is just a selection smaller portions off the adult menu.
The mini-critics,aged 5 (Agent H), 10 (Agent E) and 11 (Agent J), all ordered off the kids menu.
Agent H got ‘Pizza’ off the nino’s menu which ended up being a Quesadilla with motzerella and cheese accompanied by a small salad and chrispy curly chips. The deserts were just run of the mill resturant desserts so he followed his meal with an ice lolly.
Agent E ordered a ‘Nino’s Burger’, which was just your average burger, again with a small salad and christpy curly chips and followed his meal up with some Chocolate icecream.
Agent J decided to have a ‘Chicken Ceaser Salad’ off the under 12’s menu. Followed with Chocolate Cake.
Though the food was great, for the kids, they did not really get a ‘latin experience’. There are only a few choices off the kids menu that are latin based, a lot of them are just normal ‘Western’ food with a Spanish or Portugese name. But on the upside, the kids did eat all of their food and were happy with their choices.
The great thing about the menu was that there are icons to inform diners or caregivers of little diners if the food has nuts, is gluten free or is vegetarian friendly. This also goes for the adults menu.
All in all, the kids were entertained, they ate all their food, learnt some new Spanish and Portugese words and there was zero fighting in the time leading up to, during or after our visit to the resturant.
As a result of our visit, my mini-critics and I give Las Iguanas 3.5 out of 5 Stars for food taste, service and child friendly-ness!
You can visit Las Iguanas online at www.iguanas.co.uk or visit them at their locations throughout the U.K
