Kid-friendly cafés in Los Angeles

An old-school ice cream counter where your kid gets to choose the scoop.

A sunny corner patisserie with petit fours and coffee crunch cake, and jars of jam and chocolate to take home.

Vegan soft serve in a rotating lineup of flavors, sprinkles and all.

Garden patios wrapped around two old houses, with a fountain kids love and cake and pastries in the case.

Hundreds of rotating flavors, from adventurous to plain vanilla.

The birthday-cake institution since 1938. Kids press up against the case for sugar butterflies and pineapple buns; you're here for the strawberry cake.

Mochi and manju from the same family since 1903. Kids point at the rainbow rows in the case and pick their own.

Soft-serve pies to share after the park. One pie, a handful of spoons.