Tate Modern Café: Level 2

Super-efficient waiters soon put you at ease here, tempering what might be a slightly austere venue: a large, clattery space clad in shiny black and plate-glass. Children especially are greeted with much enthusiasm. The kids’ menu (handed out with a pot of wax crayons, and including art and literacy activities) offers haddock goujons, spaghetti and meatballs or pasta and tomato bake, with a choice of drink and an ice-creamy or fruit pudding. Or they can order half-price mains from the adult menu. This features some inspirational light lunches; our favourite was the vivid vegetarian meze plate (houmous, beetroot, dips, goat’s cheese, lentils, roasted vegetables with grilled flatbread). Alternatives range from snacks such as potted devilled crab to mains like grilled polenta with wild mushrooms, spinach and parmesan. You can also get breakfast (organic muffins, sausage ciabatta) afternoon tea and, on Tate Modern’s late-closing nights, dinner (roasted salmon with cauliflower champ and asparagus, say). It’s all about quality (the fish is the catch of the day from Newlyn, the ice-cream is Roskilly’s) over quantity – always a good idea, especially where kids are concerned. A knickerbocker glory was a mini masterpiece of vanilla ice-cream, berry jelly and chocolate and raspberry sauces.

Services

Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: children's menu; crayons; high chairs
Disabled: toilet

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