Family Friendly Restaurants

While it's always smart to call ahead to make sure a restaurant has kids' menus and highchairs, you can count on the following to be especially accommodating. What kid doesn't love pizza?

Here are some other options for the whole family:

Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint In the unlikely event that your kids can't find anything they like on the 27-page menu, they can just tune in to the nonstop Three Stooges marathon playing on the restaurant's TVs.

Bubby's Brooklyn Larger than the TriBeCa branch, this Bubby's has a tremendous view of Manhattan and is across the street from a playground.

Carmine's This rollicking family-style Italian restaurant was created with kids in mind. You won't have to worry about them making too much noise here.

City Bakery What child wouldn't be taken with the chocolate spinning wheel and homemade marshmallows? As a bonus, the organic fare is nutritious and delicious.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Loud and casual, kids come away with dinosaur tattoos to go with the barbecue-sauce stains that they will undoubtedly wear on their clothes.

Good Enough to Eat Comfort food for kids, like macaroni and cheese, pizza, and great desserts.

Mickey Mantle's As a player, the Mick had a reputation for being testy with autograph hounds and children, but he more than made up for it in retirement when he opened his extremely kid-friendly restaurant located just across the street from Central Park.

Nick's Family-Style Restaurant and Pizzeria With locations in both Queens and Manhattan, Nick's has been wowing families for over a decade with its praiseworthy pizza and Italian specialties.

Serendipity 3 Kids will love this whimsical restaurant and ice cream shop, which serves up a huge menu of American favorites, followed up by colossal ice cream treats.

Tavern on the Green Your kids will be wowed by the Central Park setting, and a children's menu makes them easy and affordable to feed. What's more, if the little ones get rambunctious, you just have to take them outdoors to blow off a little steam.

Virgil's Real BBQ This pleasing Times Square barbecue joint welcomes kids with open arms -- and Junior will be more than happy, I'm sure, to be expected to eat with his hands.