Diners' Choice: Child-friendly restaurants in New Orleans

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Updated 05 March 2025

Looking for the best restaurants that are kid friendly in New Orleans? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyses nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favourite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you book, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Bon Sake Sushi & Bar

4.9

4.9 (111)

$31 to $50

Sushi

Covington

About the restaurant

BON SAKE sushi & bar
Sushi Restaurant
Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:00am-9:00pm • Fri & Sat 11:00am-10:30pm

We look forward to serving you.

Top review

JimmyVIP

Dined 4 days ago

Always the best freshest sushi with amazing flavors. And the lychee martini is out of control. Love it!

Cafe Reconcile

4.8

4.8 (34)

$30 and under

Southern

Lower Garden District

About the restaurant

Our innovative Workforce Development Program is designed as a positive youth development space that supports the career exploration and job readiness opportunities of young people 16-24 years old. Interns earn industry credentials, explore career and educational pathways that suit their individual abilities, and experience real-world, on the job training.

Led by a skilled team of industry professionals with shared lived-experience and incorporating a cadre of community-based partners, we work to build bright futures with and alongside our young people.

Café Reconcile is a destination lunch spot for a wide cross-section of New Orleanians as well as visitors from all across the country. Focusing on the kind of “soul food” for which New Orleans is known, the restaurant has earned high praise from local and national critics.

When guests dine in the cafe, funds go directly back into our Workforce Training Program ensuring Interns and Alumni have essential supports.

Top review

Russell

Dined 5 days ago

Fried chicken does in fact need more time to prepare but was as fresh as could be. Was at table more than forty five minutes before arrival. Partner had the chicken with onion rings and potato salad. Salad had an unusual Cajun taste that was a bit over the top. Onion rings were full-size and tasty. My mixed vegetables were good if not great. Sweet potato crumble was out of this world. Overall we most likely will not return simply because there are so many restaurants to try in NOLA.

Superior Grill - New Orleans

4.7

4.7 (745)

$30 and under

Mexican

Uptown

About the restaurant

Add some real spice to your life! Superior Grill has been rated consistently as one of Louisiana’s best Mexican restaurants since 1983 when our first establishment opened in Shreveport. Our New Orleans location opened in 1997 and has become a landmark in fine quality foods with a festive Mexican atmosphere. Superior’s authentic Tex-Mex food is made from scratch every day with only the freshest ingredients. Our tortillas are hand-rolled with care all day long. For added flavor, all of our meats are cooked over a mesquite grill. We are proud of what we make and how we prepare it. Superior Grill is “the place to be” for happy hour, birthdays, office parties, and large groups. In addition to our festive indoor dining room, we offer a memorable outdoor dining experience on our landscaped patio featuring beautiful flowers and one of the best views of St. Charles Avenue. Superior Grill New Orleans is one of four locations including Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and Birmingham.

Top review

SoniaVIP

Dined 5 days ago

Excellent service and food quality as always. Staff is attentive and knowledgeable about their food and drink choices.

Don's Seafood of Hammond

4.7

4.7 (55)

$30 and under

Seafood

Hammond

About the restaurant

The truth is, you don't become a Louisiana favorite just by putting the word "authentic" on your sign. When you've served Cajun meals as long as we have, you learn the difference between real food and a bland imitation, and our guests know it too. Grilled, fried or on ice-there's time cooked into every dish and time spent on every home cooked recipe, so that every aroma, every bite, every sip and every gathering is memorable. We've spent more than 80 years creating a recipe for something much greater than a place for a lunch break or night out. It's a place to share (or keep the whole plate to yourself), a place where you always have a seat ready at the table and a place where you're always part of the family.

Top review

Kathleen

Dined on 1 Mar 2025

We had a great date night. Our food took a little longer than expected but the complementary hush puppies helped keep us from from getting to hungry while we waited. Once our food arrived, it was hot and delicious! Thank you for a job well done.

Restaurant des Familles

4.6

4.6 (491)

$31 to $50

Cajun

West Bank

About the restaurant

Bayou des Familles, a lazy waterway home to many alligators, turtles, egrets and other wildlife, takes center stage as our restaurant’s design provides its diners with a natural picture show. It’s in this unique setting where friends and family unite to experience southern Louisiana charm and culture in its finest form. It’s an experience not to be soon forgotten.

The 15-mile drive from downtown New Orleans will take you through the Jean Lafitte National Park. You’ll arrive at Restaurant des Familles and park under moss-filled century-old oak trees. The restaurant’s Acadian-style architecture provides a glimpse of bayou life that once was.

Our menu features authentic representations of Cajun and Creole favorites such as Crawfish Etouffée, Seafood & Okra Gumbo, Seafood Platters and Turtle Soup. Our signature dish, Alligator Stuffed Mushrooms with Alligator Sauce Piquant, will tempt even the most timid diner.

We look forward to your visit.

Top review

Susan

Dined on 3 Mar 2025

Was a great Mardi Gras brunch. Food was delicious and service was awesome.

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Experience

Brunch on the Bayou

Experience

Witchy Brunch on the Bayou

Saltgrass Steak House - Metairie

4.5

4.5 (331)

$30 and under

Steakhouse

Metairie

About the restaurant

Saltgrass Steak House is an award-winning steakhouse in Metairie, LA famous for serving Angus Beef steaks. Each steak is cooked to perfection with Saltgrass-7 Steak Spice, and topped with garlic butter. All breads, dressings, soups and desserts are made from scratch daily. Great food and legendary hospitality make Saltgrass an enjoyable experience for the whole family.

Top review

Faye

Dined 3 days ago

Filet minon is always excellent. Live the staff too

Los Jefes Grill

4.5

4.5 (15)

$30 and under

Mexican

Metairie

About the restaurant

We’re in the heart of Fat City in Metairie on the corner of 18th Street and Edenborn Ave, near Lakeside Shopping Center, close to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, also about 10 mins from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Whether a local, or a visitor traveling to Louisiana, our cuisine is a great treat! As has been noted by many, Los Jefes Grill in Metairie has been chosen as their favorite Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Metairie, New Orleans and surrounding areas for takeout, delivery, dine-in and catering.

Top review

Reginald

Dined on 14 Feb 2025

Waitress was great. All the staff and managers were great!

Saj

4.4

4.4 (325)

$30 and under

Mediterranean

Uptown

About the restaurant

Saj is a modern BYOB Mediterranean restaurant, offering an authentic family style concept that revolves around our freshly baked Saj bread in a fun, cozy atmosphere. Feel free to bring your own drink and we will take it from there.

Top review

Adriano

Dined on 24 Jan 2025

Food and service was awesome. Not our first time, and like before, we enjoyed alot.

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Popular dish

Lamb Chops

House of Blues Restaurant & Bar - New Orleans

3.9

3.9 (1259)

$30 and under

American

French Quarter

About the restaurant

The restaurant at House of Blues New Orleans is open Thursdays from 4 PM - 10 PM, Friday - Sunday 10 AM - 10 PM Rock- & blues-themed chain with Southern dishes such as po' boys & jambalaya, plus live music. PARK at Premium Parking location #145 on 716 Iberville Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 for $15 for up to 8 hours of parking. Use promo "HOBNOLA24" at checkout: https://www.premiumparking.com/P145. Additionally, House of Blues New Orleans has partnered with ParkWhiz to offer other easy & reliable parking options. Reserve parking here - https://www.parkwhiz.com/house-of-blues-new-orleans-parking-1?pwa=pa-1269&utm_medium=LiveNation&utm_source=1269&utm_campaign=Web_LN_ParkingPage_VenueLink

Top review

Ken

Dined 2 days ago

Nina and the Hungerland band were playing and they were awesome!

Flamingo A-Go-Go

3.9

3.9 (1359)

$30 and under

American

Warehouse District

About the restaurant

Flamingo A-Go-Go is your go-to destination for bottomless mimosa & rosé brunch, group dinners, lengthy happy hours, doggy parties, and more. With an overloaded menu of small & not-so-small bites, refreshing cocktails, and beers & wines by the bottle, can, glass or tap - there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Top review

DannyVIP

Dined 2 days ago

Easy to get to. Quiet place to eat. Service was good. Food was good.

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