Kids menus Italy

[fourstardan]

Off to sardinia in a few weeks and notice a lot of places have no kid options.

I have read that children will take a smaller portion from the main menu?

He will eat pastas and veg so he isn't fussy, how have people found it with kids (he is four and will want chips/Burgers occasionally as will I lol

[TownIdiot]

There will be McDonalds or Burger King should that need arise.

Last trip to Venice my wife made friends with an owner of a bar and i got monumentally pissed on grappa

The next morning I found myself sat in McDonalds for breakfast. Shameful behaviour, but needs must. So it's there should really need it.

[Puggit]

Yep, smaller portions for kids is quite standard for pasta in Italy

[Badda]

TownIdiot said:

There will be McDonalds or Burger King should that need arise.

Last trip to Venice my wife made friends with an owner of a bar and i got monumentally pissed on grappa

The next morning I found myself sat in McDonalds for breakfast. Shameful behaviour, but needs must. So it's there should really need it.

Please don’t go to Italy and have a McDonald’s. What a waste.

[TownIdiot]

Badda said:

Please don’t go to Italy and have a McDonald’s. What a waste.

Can you recommend a place in Venice that sells something like a sausage and egg sandwich, heavy on the salt for breakfast?

I'll go there next time I'm absolutely hanging after an unexpected lock in.

[Gnevans]

TownIdiot said:

Badda said:

Please don’t go to Italy and have a McDonald’s. What a waste.

Can you recommend a place in Venice that sells something like a sausage and egg sandwich, heavy on the salt for breakfast?

I'll go there next time I'm absolutely hanging after an unexpected lock in.

There is a sail through McDonalds from my recollection although they only had just one cornetto when I was there.

[Gnevans]

fourstardan said:

Off to sardinia in a few weeks and notice a lot of places have no kid options.

I have read that children will take a smaller portion from the main menu?

He will eat pastas and veg so he isn't fussy, how have people found it with kids (he is four and will want chips/Burgers occasionally as will I lol

Plenty of choice. Never had a problem in Italy, France though…

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/FindRestaurants?geo=...

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Restaurants in Italy are mostly very child friendly, you'll be fine.

[HiAsAKite]

Just ask in in the restaurants- they will sort something out- even if adapting something that is "only on the adult menu"

Restaurants in Italy are very child friendly

[Douglas Quaid]

Kids menus normally just mean crap food. Treat him to some decent stuff and forget the turkey twizzlers and other assorted ste for once. Kids don’t need to eat that stuff.

[fourstardan]

Breakfasts look similar to France from what I've seen, we generally just do our own breakfast (Doing Airbnb).

French l'enfant menus are a bit of a fallacy, he will have something off the Burgers/Nuggets/Fish fingers list occasionally but usually never eats it all and until the ice cream.

Don't worry we won't be doing burgers all the time, I prefer BK when abroad as a better treat.

[thebraketester]

TownIdiot said:

Can you recommend a place in Venice that sells something like a sausage and egg sandwich, heavy on the salt for breakfast?

I'll go there next time I'm absolutely hanging after an unexpected lock in.

[bristolbaron]

TownIdiot said:

There will be McDonalds or Burger King should that need arise.

Last trip to Venice my wife made friends with an owner of a bar and i got monumentally pissed on grappa

The next morning I found myself sat in McDonalds for breakfast. Shameful behaviour, but needs must. So it's there should really need it.

Genuinely the only decent meal I had in Venice was a Burger King
Somehow every restaurant we chose was absolutely appalling! Awesome bakery type places, but we made the wrong choice every dinner time. I’m sure it’s better with trip advisor etc these days. Verona by comparison we didn’t eat anything which wasn’t the best ‘whatever it was’ we’d ever had.

[Kermit power]

fourstardan said:

Off to sardinia in a few weeks and notice a lot of places have no kid options.

I have read that children will take a smaller portion from the main menu?

He will eat pastas and veg so he isn't fussy, how have people found it with kids (he is four and will want chips/Burgers occasionally as will I lol

They've got far, far bigger kids' menus than the vast majority of restaurants in the UK, because they've got access to everything on the adult menu in child-sized portions!

What they don't have is a small selection of cheap and nasty ultra-processed crap for children who have never experienced the pleasure of proper food.

[CorradoTDI]

Gnocchi is your friend - the tiny freshly made dumplings you get in Italy are amazing!

[wyson]

I find going to McDonald’s internationally really interesting. I think the most different was in India, no beef, just lots of chicken and veggie options including curried varieties.

I usually make stepping into a branch a deliberate part of my travels to see how they varied the local menu.

Check out the Indian McDonald’s menu:

Dosa Masala Burger, McAloo Tikka Burger…

https://mcdindia.com/#menu

Edited by wyson on Tuesday 10th September 19:57

[dunkind]

fourstardan said:

He will eat pastas and veg so he isn't fussy, how have people found it with kids (he is four and will want chips/Burgers occasionally as will I lol

Surely it’s not about what he wants . What he wants might not be good for him or the right choice. As parents you should be making the right decisions for him, he’s only four after all.
Giving kids a choice for school meals was a disaster, allowing children to choose from a selection of crap was a very retrograde step.
The old days of providing a no choice nutritionally balanced meal was great, it’s no wonder kids are faddy nowadays.

[Ussrcossack]

wyson said:

I find going to McDonald’s internationally really interesting. I think the most different was in India, no beef, just lots of chicken and veggie options including curried varieties.

I usually make stepping into a branch a deliberate part of my travels to see how they varied the local menu.

Check out the Indian McDonald’s menu:

Dosa Masala Burger, McAloo Tikka Burger…

https://mcdindia.com/#menu

Edited by wyson on Tuesday 10th September 19:57

They sell beer in Belgium Maccy Ds

[98elise]

bristolbaron said:

TownIdiot said:

There will be McDonalds or Burger King should that need arise.

Last trip to Venice my wife made friends with an owner of a bar and i got monumentally pissed on grappa

The next morning I found myself sat in McDonalds for breakfast. Shameful behaviour, but needs must. So it's there should really need it.

Genuinely the only decent meal I had in Venice was a Burger King
Somehow every restaurant we chose was absolutely appalling! Awesome bakery type places, but we made the wrong choice every dinner time. I’m sure it’s better with trip advisor etc these days. Verona by comparison we didn’t eat anything which wasn’t the best ‘whatever it was’ we’d ever had.

You can't always trust trip advisor. We were in Corfu and decided to try the no1 rated restaurant on the island. The reviews were great, it looked brilliant value, and the views were stunning.

When we got there it looked like a local cafe, but undeterred we sent in. The views were stunning as promised, but the food was dire. It was like school dinners quality. No taste and everything over cooked (or possibility reheated a number of times).

I suspect most of the reviews were fake.


Edited to add...

Just checked and it's still has hundreds of 5 star reviews. Everyone seems to name check the cook and how amazing she and the owner are.

Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 11th September 13:17

[Kermit power]

dunkind said:

Surely it’s not about what he wants . What he wants might not be good for him or the right choice. As parents you should be making the right decisions for him, he’s only four after all.
Giving kids a choice for school meals was a disaster, allowing children to choose from a selection of crap was a very retrograde step.
The old days of providing a no choice nutritionally balanced meal was great, it’s no wonder kids are faddy nowadays.

I think that depends on what choice you give them and how you present it.

I took our family to a lovely restaurant in Greece a few years ago that didn't have a written menu at all. Instead, the owner took people into the kitchen to show them what was cooking, and you just pointed at what you wanted!

If there had been a written menu, I'm pretty certain my kids would've just gone for the thing that sounded a bit like a burger. Instead, they all went for different things off the menu that I'm sure they wouldn't have chosen without being able to see and smell them!