{"id":6032,"date":"2019-09-08T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:20:54","slug":"udupi-palace-consistently-great-kid-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/udupi-palace-consistently-great-kid-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Udupi Palace &#8211; Consistently Great &#038; Kid Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s become increasingly more important to me that a place be kid friendly when we go out to eat as a family. That can&#8217;t be surprising, we have a three year old, and since he was born, our eating habits have changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes that involves eating at home more often (also including delivery), sometimes that involves suffering through long waits and an impatient tiny human. It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re not feeling impatient too, it&#8217;s just easier to pretend you like waiting when you&#8217;re a adult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one place in the city that stands out as having nearly everything we want, while still allowing us the experience of dining out &#8211; Udupi Palace. We rarely go to the east end (though there are more and more reasons to do so) but Udupi Palace is worth the drive\/transit ride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have a great little kids play area that is probably suitable for anyone under the age of 6, lots of high chairs of various sizes, they have a changing station in the back, the staff are kind and patient with children (and adults), and the food is awesome. Every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have this bonus fondness for Udupi because we went there a lot when I was pregnant too &#8211; the spicy rassam was exactly what I wanted to eat during the third trimester. Plus JC reminded me that it was also one of the first restaurants I took him to when we met &#8211; and one he had never been to, so it&#8217;s clearly a long term favourite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8751560853\/in\/photolist-qQ8W1d-ekrMK5-ekm39e-ekm2VP-9CheWj-9CheRY-9CejS4-9BdLvZ-9CheAy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3739\/8751560853_4278afe48f.jpg\" alt=\"Masala Dosa - Udupi Palace\"\/><\/a><figcaption> Here is the Masala Dosa &#8211; it comes with a coconut cream chutney and sambhar <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly the whole menu is vegan or veganizable, and I am still so surprised when veg people that live in Toronto say they&#8217;ve never been to Udupi Palace &#8211; so here is my pitch &#8211; not that they need it, but &#8211; go to Udupi Palace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the one thing that makes Udupi Palace not the perfect place, and that&#8217;s the lack of accessible entrance &#8211; so that can make it harder for the whole family to eat together. There are about 6-7 steps down to get to the restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become increasingly more important to me that a place be kid friendly when we go out to eat as a family. That can&#8217;t be surprising, we have a three year old, and since he was born, our eating habits have changed. Sometimes that involves eating at home more often&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[1512,1376],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto-2","tag-kid-friendly","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}