Places with a changing table in Albany (3)

Albany's community living room: a fenced tot lot with sandpit, a big-kid playground with a corkscrew slide and ADA swing, redwood shade, summer concerts, and Solano Avenue takeout two blocks away for an outdoor dinner.

Solano Avenue's deep-dish destination - the Albany outpost of the Little Star family where the deep dish is the headliner but the thin crust holds its own. A consistent first pick for East Bay kids.

Build-your-own Korean rice bowls on Solano that hand out kid chopsticks, kid bowls, and little smoothies - small touches that tell you families are expected, not tolerated.