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Yesterday, I headed into London with a friend and both our sets of children – were we mad?! We actually had a really lovely day, enjoying lunch out on the Marylebone High Street and then playing in Regents Park.

On the Marylebone High Street, we headed straight for Giraffe – a family friendly restaurant chain – and it turned out to be a great success! First of all the older kids (at a grand old age of 3 yrs!) were given crayons and a colouring mat whilst we were helped with positioning of double buggies etc.

The menu was really great. Not only was the children’s menu really good – both kids went for grilled chicken and veggies (brocolli, carrots and sweetcorn) for main – but the adult menu was also really impressive. They had a good selection of burger type dishes but also some delicious sounding salads. I chose one of the salads which involved marinated feta, spinach leaves, sprouting beans and lots of other goodies – it also said toasted seeds which I asked to be left out. Not a problem! And it’s not that I don’t like seeds but Taran is still allergic to sesame so I like to be careful.

The kids menu does a meal deal of drink, main and dessert. Two of the desserts involved ice-cream and the third was mango sorbet. I’ve been caught out many a time mentioning ice-cream only to find that it contains egg and so Taran can’t have it. This time I decided to order the sorbet and call it ice-cream!! Taran was quite happy with this until he spotted chocolate sauce on his friend’s dessert!! So I simply asked the waitress if it was possible to get some chocolate sauce on his dessert too. Again, not a problem and she brought over a pot of chocolate sauce. Yum!!!

So all in all a great meal out which both the adults and children enjoyed (and of course the babies but they only got to eat mush!!)