I know, I know, it's like I dropped off the face of the earth, right? Sorry about that. Life, it just gets in the way of all this blogging.
One of the places we've dared venture with a toddler recently: Ted's Montana Grill, located at Spruce and Broad Streets And yes, that's as in, Ted Turner, media mogul and environmentalist (you can read about some of the steps Ted's takes to be eco-friendly here). Clearly, this is not the place for vegetarians, but if you're a meat-eater, this ain't bad.
At any rate, we wound up at Ted's by accident almost: the restaurant we were planning to go to had a 45 minute wait and someone was having a complete meltdown that he wasn't getting his promised "humburger" immediately. So...off to Ted's we went, having no idea what to expect, but we were pleasantly surprised. Access with a stroller was easy and they have room to store a stroller (helping matters is that the restaurant was not overly-crowded). The restaurante supplies high chairs--clean high chairs--and they have a kid's menu with 5-6 items on it, including mini-sliders, pot roast and mac-n-cheese.
To boot, they also have these very interesting kid's toys. Unlike most restaurants that hand out crayons, Ted's has these unique twisty sticks (somewhat similar to a pipe cleaner) and diagrams on how to bend the sticks into different shapes. Probably not ideal to give to a baby, but my son is tactile enough that he enjoyed trying to make some simple shapes.
The food is good--the burgers are ginormous. Actually, everything might be a little on the large side. We got a side of onion rings too, and they were like a small mountain o' onion.
Service, it seems, is a little hit or miss. Everyone was very nice. The manager went out of his way to get the stroller stored for us, get us the kid's toy, make sure my son's food came out first. But there were mistakes on the meal orders. Nothing major, but it seemed a little disorganized.
Overall, though, I'll take it. Another baby/kid friendly restaurant in the city? Yeah, I'll definitely take it.