Congratulations
The next few months will be the easiest to dine out with your child because they will have few opinions and are mostly immobile. It becomes more complicated with age.
Feed them everything you can, safely. Start with flavors and then work on texture.
Yes, this. They’re super easy until about 4 or 5 months old when, if you have a kid like mine, they decide they want to stay up way past bedtime and would rather party than sleep while out at dinner. When he was a newborn we did everything from Majordomo to Chi Spacca to Gunsmoke to Petit Trois Valley, all outside. He mostly slept and everyone was super accommodating.
Once he was eating solids and decided he wanted to party we did Lulu (he hoovered a dish of fish with peas and favas in beurre blanc around 7 months old), Salazar, Anajak, Majordomo again. Again, trying to stay outside when possible because soooo much food ends up on the floor, and booking at 5p.
Past the newborn stage when they’re blobs and will just sleep wherever, I think anywhere with outdoor dining, or anywhere that’s loud is fair game. By 18 months my (now 2 yr old) kid enjoyed all kinds of food and knew how to behave in a restaurant, enough to sit through and enjoy many days in a row of 3 course prix fixe meals in Paris, and guzzled down whelks in Bordeaux. We don’t do very formal restaurants or long tasting menus, but otherwise everything else is fair game.
Highly highly recommend getting an Inglesina Fast Chair to use at restaurants once they’re sitting up and eating solids.
P. S. Don’t do kids’ menus, let them eat what you’re eating (Baby-Led Weaning is sooooo much easier than feeding baby food). My kid was asking for and eating Sichuan food by the time he was a year old.
My 2 year old already asks for wine. 
Couldn’t agree more - kids menus are just horrible and give lousy options which have little to do with good food
I think it’s easy to misunderstand the purpose of a kids menu. IMO it’s a lowest common denominator menu that the restaurant can accommodate in their workflow, is familiar, appealing even to picky eaters, sized for a child’s appetite, and is priced appropriately. It provides a safe option for parents that can give them confidence a restaurant will have something their child will be willing to eat. They look unappealing to us because we are not the target audience. Not all children have a taste for “good food,” sometimes that only develops later in life (if it every does). I don’t believe there’s a foolproof magic formula to raising children with a broad palette, only things you can do to increase the chances. 
I have seen elementary school age children at a 3* restaurant with their family politely eating the entire tasting menu… but I do not think that’s the norm! Even in Italy, which has a great food culture and is very kid-friendly in restaurants, their kids menus are very similar to what you see here. A lot of very simple and plain dishes.
Not to completely derail the discussion but I think that continuous exposure for kids from very early one (when they start eating solids) to the same dishes as their parents will never guarantee you a broad palate for the kid but it makes it very likely. Kids menu does the exact opposite and just reinforce for them that food is “different” what their parents eat and often just there to fill up instead of tasting good. Obviously, the addition “problem” especially in the US is that many parents grew up similar and haven’t often developed an open mindset around food themselves. I think it speaks volume that only here in the US many people think they can “put together” their “own” dishes in restaurants by asking for many substitutions (to avoid the “unknowns”) whereas in Europe is very uncommon and you simply eat what’s cooked by the chef
In our experience these kids menus in Italy (or France or Germany) are more common in areas with high tourist traffic. Many restaurants in Europe which are more off the tourist paths often don’t have kids menu
lol. I feel so mistreated now. I remember applesauce and cottage cheese.
Yah, but then there’s the downside of having a 2 year old who’s always asking for sushi, constantly tells me we need to go to the farmers’ market, and interrogates me every day about what I’m planning to cook for dinner 
Right now he’s campaigning for me to buy (yet another) jackfruit and cut it up for him. Do you know what a pain those things are??!
Congrats @mzonelli ! Take the kid everywhere esp before they can crawl. Honestly the only places I wouldn’t take a newish baby are like tasting menu or omakase. We took/take our kid to a lot of places and they will definitely get used to it, I’m sure you guys will figure it out. Youll just have to accept that your kids gonna have a melt down at a restauant at some point but that’s just part of it and don’t let that deter you.
About the food exposure stuff, I think it’s highly child dependent both in taste and personality. We are in the thick of it, kid is almost 4 and is pretty picky. Im sure some posters have more experience having grown up kids and seeing the whole trajectory but our kid has been exposed to a variety of foods and hates or refuses most of them. She mostly likes carbs, the most “exotic” thing she eats is tuna rolls. We just got home from Europe and one of her favorite things was “the bread”.
My selective eating has definitely created some odd tastes for her, she will sometimes spit out grocery store strawberries saying they “taste bad” because she’s used to regularly eating higher quality farmers market ones and also refusing low quality ice cream for the same reason. So sometimes I wonder whether we are creating some kind of food elitist monster lol.
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