Kid-friendly cafés in London

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

Coffee on a lakeside terrace, with the pirate-ship playground just across the path.

Pizza, pastries and hot chocolate right beside an adventure playground with rope bridges, treehouses and sand.

Sandwiches, cake and ice cream inside a fenced park grown-ups can only enter with a kid, next to the sandpits and climbing frames.

British steakhouse in Spitalfields serving steak, chips and a Sunday roast.

A proper play room, and rice balls toddlers actually eat, looking out over the canal basin.

An indoor sandpit and a slide for toddlers, and you get a coffee while they dig.