The 50 Most Child-Friendly Restaurants

OpenTable is a website that allows hungry people to make restaurant reservations online. That feature by itself it worthwhile, but their restaurant reviews are also useful in making OpenTable a great site to use when trying to find a new restaurant to try – or better, find a restaurant in a city you’ve never been to.

OpenTable recently held their annual Diner’s Choice awards, and received over 2.5 million restaurant reviews covering over 9,000 different restaurants around the country. Based on those reviews, here is OpenTable’s list of the TOP 50 MOST CHILD-FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS for 2009:

• America – Washington, DC
• BarBersQ – Napa, CA
• Black Angus Steakhouse (Blossom Hill) – San Jose, CA
• Black Angus Steakhouse – Dublin, CA
• Black Angus Steakhouse – Pleasant Hill, CA
• Black Angus Steakhouse – San Lorenzo, CA
• Black Angus Steakhouse – Sunnyvale, CA
• Blue Smoke – New York, NY
• Bluegrass – Highland Park, IL
• Buca di Beppo – San Francisco, CA
• Cafe Fleuri – Boston, MA
• Cap City Fine Diner & Bar Gahanna – Gahanna, OH
• Carmine’s 91st Street – New York, NY
• CBS Scene Restaurant and Bar – Foxboro, MA
• Chenery Park – San Francisco, CA
• Clyde’s – Chevy Chase, MD
• DiNardo’s Famous Seafood – Philadelphia, PA
• Dinosaur Bar B Que – New York, NY
• Durgin Park – Boston, MA
• El Cholo Cafe – La Habra, CA
• Fleet Landing Restaurant & Bar – Charleston, SC
• Ivar’s Acres of Clams – Seattle, WA
• L. Woods Tap and Pine Lodge – Lincolnwood, IL
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Bellevue, WA
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Boca Raton, FL
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Bridgewater, NJ
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Hackensack, NJ
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Skokie, IL
• Maggiano’s Little Italy – Woodland Hills, CA
• Margaritaville – Glendale, AZ
• Mity Nice Grill – Chicago, IL
• Musashi’s Japanese Steakhouse – Oklahoma City, OK
• Pacific Catch – San Francisco, CA
• Paradise Cove Beach Cafe – Malibu, CA
• Raglan Road Irish Pub – Lake Buena Vista, FL
• Ruby Foo’s Times Square – New York, NY
• Sam’s Chowder House – Half Moon Bay, CA
• Scoozi – Chicago, IL
• Speisekammer – Alameda, CA
• Summer Shack – Boston, MA
• Summer Shack – Cambridge, MA
• The Cottage Restaurant – Wellesley, MA
• The Paddock at Devon – Wayne, PA
• The Pirates’ House – Savannah, GA
• The Twisted Fork – Raleigh, NC
• Tony’s Di Napoli Upper East Side – New York, NY
• Tony’s Di Napoli Midtown – New York, NY
• Virgil’s – New York, NY
• Yankee Pier – San Jose, CA
• Zingerman’s Roadhouse- Ann Arbor, MI