Sunnybrae Park

Mini park with play structures for toddlers and older kids, a sandbox and picnic tables.

Neighborhood park with a playground.

Casual Italian with fresh pastas and piadine, a real kids' menu, and a Thursday kids-eat-free night.

The park in the middle of San Mateo: a Japanese tea garden, a miniature train at weekends, and a playground with restrooms.

Top-tier tsukemen without the line-wait meltdown: join the Yelp waitlist remotely, and kids get their own small bowls of milky ramen or brothless aburasoba with jammy eggs.

A ball pit, a pretend grocery store and ride-on cars for toddlers, plus an upper obstacle course.