QUESTION AND ANSWERS

In addition to this great list of reader recommended restaurants with kid-friendly vegetarian meal options, check our archived post, 18 Kid-Friendly Restaurants in Western MA! (Photo credit: Sienna Wildfield)

Tara Winters of Williamsburg asks: “What are your favorite Pioneer Valley restaurants that offer affordable, healthy, vegetarian, kid-friendly meal options?”

• Amy Meltzer writes:  “Mosaic Cafe [Northampton] is always popular with my girls.”
• Samantha Wood writes: “Mesa Verde in Greenfield.”
• Jennifer Shiao Page writes: “Amherst Chinese Food. My daughter loves their miso soup and brown rice. The lunch specials are particularly affordable.”
• Sarah KillKelley Mulvehill writes: “Pizzeria Paradiso [Northampton] has always been terrific for our family. Lots of choices and they’re good with kids. Also The Roost and Green Bean in Northampton… and Mosaic Cafe.”
• Brooke Norton writes: “We love, love, love Bueno Y Sano [Amherst & Northampton].”
• Erica Clarke Boerman writes: “Bela Restaurant in Northampton.”
• Leah Nero Carrasquillo writes: “Hillside Pizza [Hadley & South Deerfield]; La Casita Azteca [Easthampton]; Esselon Cafe [Hadley].
• Anouk Alquier  writes: “Paul and Elizabeth’s in Northampton.”
• Melanie Wilk Butterworth writes: “Paul and Elizabeth’s [Northampton] I’ve found to be SO kid friendly in general, they were so accommodating when I just took my 11 month old twins there for lunch!”
• Anna Lavarreda writes: “Green Bean [Northampton].”
• Myssie Casinghino writes: “Paul and Elizabeth‘s Restaurant [Northampton] and Bueno Y Sano [Amherst & Northampton].”
• Tish Serrani writes: “Cup and Top Cafe [Florence].”
• Katryna Nields writes: “Paul and Elizabeth’s Restaurant [Northampton].”
• Rosemary McNaughton writes: “Mosaic Cafe [Northampton] is a favorite for our kids. Paul and Elizabeth’s is one we do for more special occasions. Teapot in Northampton has always been exceptionally child-friendly for us.”
• Sue Lowery writes: “Oriental Flavor in Amherst; Mi Tierra [Hadley]; downstairs at Pasta e Basta [Amherst].”
• Jason Amanda Allen writes: “Brass Buckle Cafe and Mesa Verde in Greenfield. – Isn’t there a place called Mango Mango in Amherst? I went there once. It was great but I don’t live close by. Has the Karma restaurant opened back up yet!? – The Lady Killigrew in Montague. Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Gill.”
• Jessica Grant writes: “I agree that Paul and Elizabeth’s is great – I’ve been bringing my twins there since they were tiny and they still love going 12 years later.”
• Marianne Milton writes: “Someone already mentioned Bueno Y Sano. I’ll add La Veracruzana in Northampton—delicious affordable Mexican food, big space, no one will blink an eye at kid noise.”

Tara Brock Winters responds: “Awesome suggestions, and thank you for reminding me of a few we have not visited in a while. We are so lucky to have such great options in the Valley!”