Kid-friendly restaurants in Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa's pizza legend: kids get a ball of raw pizza dough to play with at the table, then watch their own creation come out of the wood oven.

Casual Italian in Montgomery Village where kids eat free on Thursdays: piadine, pizzas, and pastas with a shopping-center patio.

Burgers with a play area, chalkboard walls and foosball tables, and a kids menu for 12 and under.

The kids' menu has butter pasta, spaghetti with a house-made meatball, and chicken tenders.

Cups of spaghetti with a meatball, half grilled cheese with fruit and PB&J make up the kids' side of a big deli and grill menu.