Food Of The Week
Show them a fun time and fill their stomachs. These top attractions have great cafés, too, says Andy Lynes
Sunday, 1 April 2007
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Theme park or garden park, monument or museum, wherever you take the kids this Easter, make sure there is a decent café on hand where you can relax and refuel.
Let the kids run the animal alphabet from aardvark to zebra while you enjoy a champagne brunch of roast lamb with malt whiskey sauce at the Paon Royal restaurant in Antwerp Zoo, K Astridplein 26, Antwerp (00 32 3 202 45 40; zooantwerpen.be).
Cross the Capilano Suspension Bridge as it gently sways 230ft above Vancouver's Capilano River and reward your bravery with a wild British Columbian salmon burger at The Bridge House, 3650 Capilano Road, North Vancouver (001 604 987 3388; capbridge.com).
Sample chef Wolfgang Puck's sophisticated take on pizza at Grand Café, Downtown Disney at Westside, 1482 East Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, Florida (001 407 938 9653; wolfgangpuck.com). Options include smoked salmon pizza with red onions and dill crème fraîche.
See the chickens, sheep and cattle on the two-mile farm trail, then stop for Fair-trade coffee and excellent home-baked scones and cakes in the tea room that overlooks the milking shed at Low Sizergh Barn (015395 60426; lowsizerghbarn .co.uk), Low Sizergh Farm, Sizergh, Kendal.
Kids get hands on with the interactive exhibits at Nemo Science Centre, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam (00 31 20 531 32 33; e-nemo.nl) to learn about everything from DNA to magnetism. Afterwards head for the roof-top beach-style café.
No, a stealth bomber hasn't landed in Windsor Great Park; it's the stunning Savill Building, Wick Lane, Englefield Green (01784 435544; theroyallandscape .co.uk). From there you can enjoy views of the beautiful Savill Garden while you polish off Windsor farm sausages and mustard mash at Leith's café.
Get a unique view of the ravines, waterfalls and rainforests of Australia's Blue Mountains through the glass bottom of the Skyway cablecar at Scenic World Blue Mountains (00 612 4782 2699; skyway restaurants.com.au), corner of Violet Street and Cliff Drive, Katoomba. Once you have seen it all, stop for lunch at the revolving Skyway brasserie.
