Buglife Tue 22-May-18 13:17:22

We take our DS to plenty of nice and fancy restaurants but only for lunch unless we are staying in a hotel in the U.K. and then we would eat early evening, not after 7. Abroad we’d be out after 9 but that’s totally different!



If the place is expensive then you have to think that a lot of the diners are on special nights out, dates etc and it’s not nice to spoil that. I think you need to put your foot down on the late meals full stop rather than debate the tablet/talking issue. We take the tablet but with headphones, we would talk to DS as well but also would remind him to keep the volume down (although a lot of adults talking does drown him out so it’s not a huge problem), never let him get down etc. He has been very used to eating out so does behave well. But still I wouldn’t take him out on a weekend past 7. Except in touristy parts of London or abroad where kids are out later!