Cholita Linda

Eritrean and Ethiopian plates served with injera and salad, plus a full bar.

A volunteer-built Temescal classic: a sprawling wooden fortress structure, a big sand pit, and a shallow creek kids wade in on warm days. The Temescal strip's coffee and food are a block away for the grown-ups.

A whole restaurant built on the one food nearly every kid eats: fancy mac and cheese in a dozen varieties, plus a kids menu, on 40th Street.

Robot servers roll bowls of pho across a colorful dining room. Fast, casual, and the noodle soup is toddler-compatible by design.

Family-run since 1973, with ricotta pancakes and challah French toast at breakfast and cheeseburgers with shakes.

An Oakland vegan restaurant.