A child with a medium-severe cold is no reason to stay inside all day when the sun is out. Taking care of Brendan and working from home today, we decided to get some air and try EAT Cafe for the first time in a couple of years.
Whether this restaurant is child-friendly or not changes daily with the menu. While I found the available food combinations delightful, it was difficult to find something Brendan would agree to order. House-made noodles sounded perfect, but not with butter. Soup is usually acceptable, but he wasn’t sure what “root vegetables” were. He ended up ordering the baked sage polenta with herbed tomato sauce. I chose an egg salad with roasted potatoes, braised broccoli, and aioli (delicious). The polenta was definitely pushing the envelope, and we ended up pretending the poached egg served on top was a bomb that needed diffusing. But the arugula and pinto beans that came with the dish were consumed in the end, and the raspberry apple juice he’d chosen got two thumbs up.
The smell of unfinished wood at this charming cafe is irresistible and the atmosphere is spare but inviting. Brendan watched the vinyl record going around on the turntable and asked question after question about analog stereo setups. To my shame, we are lacking one at home right now. At that moment in time I was realizing my ambition to keep my kids out of the food ghetto. If he can learn to love what’s in front of him, maybe I have hope in my fight against chicken nuggets.
You can find EAT’s daily menu on their Facebook page.
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