The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences

Hotel with a heated outdoor rooftop pool and an indoor pool, and one-bedroom suites that can add a second room, connecting or close by.

Swings, a seesaw and a sandpit, a few steps from the lake.

Bustling art-deco brasserie with French comfort dishes and a kids' menu of a main plus a dessert.

Fresh pasta in Soho, with a kids' menu of half-size radiatori and soft-serve options.

Fresh pasta in a small Covent Garden room with no highchairs, suited to kids old enough for an ordinary chair.

Bombay cafe in Covent Garden with an all-day kids' menu of smaller dishes with very little spice.