Where to Eat WTIH KIDS BIG AND SMALL
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By Laura Zolman Kirk
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here do you eat with your kids?” We posed this question to our staff whose children range in age from young toddlers to college age. “Taking a kid out is always tough!” says Senior VP of Publishing Rory Gillis. “I think my kid is pretty well behaved for a 1-and-a-half-year-old, but she likes to talk loudly, drop food, giggle and repeat the same word over and over and over.” So, where can Rory’s daughter, Rowan, be her chatty self while Mom and Dad, Devin, enjoy a nice meal, too? On the flip side, where is it cool in our community for older kids to dine with their folks? The parents – and grandparents! – of Chapel Hill Magazine, Durham Magazine and Chatham Magazine have some insights.
ELMO’S DINER Carrboro and Durham “Oh man. I know everyone will say this, but Elmo’s is so great for kids. We go there for emergency pancakes or when we just don’t want to make dinner. My boys, Eli, 6, and James, 2, share a large order of sweet potato or pumpkin pancakes, and each get a side order of turkey sausage ... which they dip in the whipped cream that comes with the 16
pancakes, because kids are weird.” – Briana Brough, Chief Visual Officer and Director of Photography “Caydon, 8, and Miles, 2, like the pancakes, sausage and spaghetti.” – Kevin Brown, Creative Director
TYLER’S RESTAURANT & TAPROOM Carrboro and Durham “There’s something on the menu for our whole family – even our picky eaters. My kids – Trevor, 19, Ole, 13, Emily, 11, Sophie, 10 – love Tyler’s sweet potato fries!” – Heather Johnson, Chatham Magazine Associate Publisher
2017 YOUR FAMILY MAGAZINE