NOLA restaurants with an infant

Your kids sleeping/activity patterns are more important but in general any lively place with a good noise level is great for infants. If you time it up right, they’ll either sleep through part of the meal or all the noise will cover up any fussiness. I took one of my kids to Galatoires when she was maybe 7 months old. Great age. Anytime she got a bit fussy there was someone from a table over who would volunteer to hold her and walk her around.

I would say Peche for dinner (great food but very loud atmosphere) and Cafe Atchafalaya Jazz brunch.

What weekend are you coming? A lot of good festivals and weekend options in March.

any child too immature to shut the hell up and behave when told to should be at home with a babysitter or you need to go to a fast food place instead

Our experience eating out with infants was great. We’d ask for a table against a wall and bring the bumbo for him to sit in on top of the table. If he needed to sleep, mom would feed him somewhere discreet and then he goes in the baby carrier.

Now we have an infant and a 2.5yr old. It’s pretty much impossible to eat out with him unless it’s a big table with the grandparents and other adults willing to pay attention to him. If it’s just me and the wife one of us will spend a large part of meal dealing with him. We still occasionally do so but we’re a lot more cautious about where we go and when.

At the end of the day though, if one or both of the kids lose their shite at dinner, we feel it’s our responsibility to let the other diners eat in peace. So one of us will take the whining/screaming child out of the restaurant. If they keep it up we will take turns eating alone while the other handles the screaming kid in the parking lot or down the street. Sucks but that’s one of the small prices to pay for making a family.

So if your infant hangs out and goes to sleep without much fanfare I’d say you can go anywhere you want. If they are a screamer go somewhere loud or more casual but be prepared to have your dinner interrupted if the kid has a meltdown.

5mo old. Id say about anywhere.

I took my daughter with us to La Boca when she was 7 weeks old. She literally slept the whole time. Get it out of your system while your child is tiny and sleeps all the time.

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Anytime she got a bit fussy there was someone from a table over who would volunteer to hold her and walk her around.

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I would not advise another to bank on a volunteer to help you with your own kid.

While I run a tight ship when it comes to disciplining my children, I still acknowledge there are restaurants that just aren’t child friendly and I do not bring them there if I can help it.

However, I must say I cannot garuntee their perfect behavior 100% of the time. So, if the one time they act a fool (and get disciplined for it) and we happen to be at a nicer restaurant, that doesn’t mean I don’t raise my kids properly. It means they acted out and made poor choices, just as normal children do on occasion.

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ding, ding, ding, we found one of those parents who never taught their kids how to act in public and lets kids run wild

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People like you are so full of shite.