Kid friend restaurants in Lyon

This is a long-time favorite of RS forum regulars:

https://lebouchondesfilles.fr

"Isabelle and Laura, two former waitresses in the world of the Lyon Bouchons, met at the "Café des Fédérations" held at the time by Yves Rivoiron. They wanted, 14 years ago, with the same desire to continue the tradition of Lyon mothers, to open their "Girls" Bouchon with a more current and less caloric cuisine. The "Bouchon des Filles" is a simple, friendly place with homemade cuisine."

I had a decent meal at Léon - Lyon Mercière last month. There were a number of families in the place.

Brasserie Georges, something for everyone, the largest Brasserie in Lyon. It’s served a lot of kids.

We had a good meal and very nice service at Les Lyonnaise a bouchon just across the footbridge over the Soane. Reservations a must. While there are some things that are challenging on bouchon menus there are some very 'kid friendly' dishes for less adventures kids e.g. duck parmentier for example.

I was tempted to say something snotty about le Mercier since we had one of our worst stereotypical total jerk French waiter experiences there -- but the food was fine and it would probably be a decent place with kids. We saw kids at both Les Lyonnaise and at Le Mercier.

We had a waiter who pretended he could not understand our orders in French. Yeah my pronunciation is terrible although not to most people unintelligibly so -- but the place had about 5 dishes on their sign board so I am not buying that he could not comprehend my order for one of them especially repeated. He then refused to understand my husband's order for another and then switched to condescending English and my husband did the same and said 'potato soup' and he stuck his nose in the air and declared no such thing was possible at this restaurant. We finally managed to point on the menu to the veloute parmentier. and ordered. A very nice crock of potato soup soon appeared. FWIW. we have had maybe 3 waiters like this in decades of long trips to France and to have it now when we have reasonable tourist French and lots of experience with French norms was surprising to us -- and amusing.

Regarding the link to the Brasserie Georges above,
I can't be the only one who finds it harder to understand the British version of many French menus than it is to understand the French, can I?

Cuttlefish? Rumsteak? British English makes yummy things sound almost as bad as German does. Maybe that goes too far, sorry.

Rumsteak isn’t British English. I think they may possibly mean rump steak. And does cuttlefish even have another name? It’s definitely not a common dish on British menus.

The French have the worst English in Europe so most translations tend to go a bit awry.

If you want to experience a meal in a restaurant as many French families do, consider Flunch, Hippopotamus, and, of course, McDonalds.

They're all kid friendly and they're all packed with French families with their children.

I think families asking here about kid friendly want good food. McDonald's food in France is even worse than McD food in the US. And FWIF. KFC doesn't actually have friend chicken in France -- they only have wings and chicken strips. Any family can do so much better.

I might favor the restaurants contained within Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse. The kids can see the market stalls and how the Lyonnais buy their fresh foods, then sit down for good food. None of them is haute cuisine, but they're all reasonably priced and you can choose from a wide variety of offerings by reviewing the menus before entering to be seated.

The good news is that most restaurants in France are kid friendly - as long as the child is restaurant friendly.