10 Fun Indianapolis Restaurants for Kids

When dining with kids, the restaurant you choose makes all the difference. If the environment isn’t fun and welcoming to children, your restaurant experience can turn sour before your beverages even arrive at your table. Lucky for us, the greater Indianapolis area has a lot to offer when it comes to kid-friendly restaurants. And good news: We know where to look, so we found some great kid-friendly and fun Indianapolis restaurants for you!

Some of these restaurants wouldn’t be considered “kid restaurants” in the strictest term. However, all of these restaurants are fun and welcoming to kids, and offer something for families looking for a relaxing, entertaining dining experience.

Here is our list 10 fun Indianapolis restaurants for kids!

Baby’s

You’ll find kid-approved smash burgers, fried chicken and milkshakes on the menu, but the best part of Baby’s (from a kid’s perspective) is the awesome kids play area on the patio. They also offer magnet tiles for little ones to play with while you’re waiting for your food! | 2147 N. Talbott St., Indianapolis

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Books & Brews

This is the ultimate family-night restaurant! With several Indy-area locations to choose from, Books & Brews has dozens of board games that you can pluck from the shelves and play at your table. Eat, drink and be merry while spending some quality time playing Zingo or Chutes and Ladders. And if books are more your thing, Books & Brews has lots of books for you to peruse while you’re there, or purchase to take home. Bonus: Each location offers a kids eat free day!| Multiple locations

Kids Eat Free at Books & Brew

Indianapolis: Sunday
Brownsburg: Sunday
Zionsville: Thursday, Sunday
Noblesville: Monday, Thursday, Sunday
Carmel: Friday
South Indy: Sunday

Field Brewing

Sometimes, parents just need a great restaurant with great food and drinks, where their children can play close by. That’s Field Brewing in a nutshell. This Westfield brewery has an amazing garden and outdoor patio seating, with an area where visitors can play bocce ball, giant Jenga, and just hang out on the artificial turf. | 303 E Main Street, Westfield

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Ford’s Garage 

Car lovers will get a kick out of Ford’s Garage, a restaurant that is decked out with Ford car parts and memorabilia. There are even real cars inside the restaurant! After your meal, walk outside of the restaurant and make a right, and you’ll see an outdoor play area for kids, which is part of the Hamilton Town Center outdoor shopping mall. | 13193 Levinson Lane, Noblesville

Fork + Ale House

Fork + Ale House serves all the kid favorites: chicken tenders, burgers, and white mac and cheese. But it really shines because it’s situated right in the center of Carmel’s Midtown Plaza. During nice weather, choose to sit on Fork + Ale House’s patio, and you’ll be near the outdoor ping pong tables, pool tables and giant LED TV screen. Parents can enjoy their meal while the kids play! | 350 Veterans Way, Carmel

Half Liter BBQ & Beer Hall

Half Liter BBQ & Beer Hall is a great place to bring your half-pints. Not only does this Broad Ripple restaurant serve up some of the best barbecue in Indianapolis, but there is a large outdoor seating area that is open, casual, and family-friendly. You can even play a game of cornhole while you’re waiting for your food! And don’t forget to get dessert after your meal, as Half Liter serves two kid favorite: Dippin’ Dots and Rice Krispie Treats! | 5301 Winthrop Ave., Indianapolis

The Old Spaghetti Factory

Pasta is one of those foods that most kids enjoy, and kids will find what they want at The Old Spaghetti Factory. And bonus: All menu items on the kids menu come with a dessert at the end of the meal, either vanilla ice cream or spumoni. For extra fun, request to be seated in the trolley car, which is a fun fixture in all OSF locations! | Downtown Indy: 210 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis; Carmel: 918 S. Rangeline Road, Carmel

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Pizza King Station

For your little train enthusiasts, this is the fun restaurant in Indianapolis to visit. Two Pizza King locations are decked out in all-things train, and also has a model train that delivers your beverages! Pizza and trains — could there be a better kid-friendly combination? | 7045 Bluff Road, Indianapolis and 8100 E. US Hwy. 36, Avon

Punch Bowl Social

This one is kind of cheating. Punch Bowl Social is a restaurant, sure (and they serve pretty darn good food, too.) But it’s it’s a restaurant with bowling alleys, ping pong tables, skee ball and other arcade games, karaoke, board games and lots more entertainment for the family. This is one restaurant where kids will definitely have fun — so much fun that it might be hard to pull them away from the games to get them to eat! | 120 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis

Traders Point Creamery

Traders Point Creamery is a working dairy farm that offers local ingredients at their farm-to-table restaurant. From April through October, visitors can take a self-guided tour of the farm property, and visit with some of the Traders Point Creamery cows, chickens and other animals that call the Zionsville farm their home. And for dessert, kids will especially love that there’s a Dairy Bar on site, where you can order freshly made ice cream, milkshakes, sundaes and floats, which you can enjoy inside the restaurant or outdoors on the big patio. | 9101 Moore Road, Zionsville