For some families, the requisite mac and cheese, pizza and chicken fingers and fries on a kids’ menu are a life saver.
But there’s a flip side to this, too. In a culturally diverse world, where flavours know no borders, why do we still make assumptions about which foods children are and aren’t familiar with? And why are kids’ menus often reduced to a short list of items we assume all children like? Maybe dining out can be an opportunity to broaden culinary horizons, rather than always falling back on the usual suspects.
“I’m not really a fan of kids’ menus,” says Scott Jonathan Iseroff, co-founder of Bernadette’s in Edmonton. “It’s kind of an insult to the child and holding them back instead of exploring what food is and can be.”

