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Peterborough's Best: Kid & Family Friendly

For restaurants that make family meals easier through kids options, flexible ordering, casual pacing, familiar dishes, or a room that welcomes mixed ages.

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Peterborough's Best: Kid & Family Friendly

Best Of · Peterborough, ON
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Kid & Family Friendly

21 spots make the list in Peterborough · ranked by Restaurantica's kid & family friendly scoring evaluation

6.6
Average Score
7.5
Top Score
21/38
Restaurants That Qualify
Leading the list:Marty Moo's· 7.5

Good Options

Score 6.0-7.9 • 20 restaurants
1

Marty Moo's

8.8
Barbecue · East Peterborough · $$

This is a family room in the literal sense: a kids menu, broad lunch-and-dinner comfort plates, patio service and familiar barbecue choices make ordering easy for mixed ages.

2

The Boardwalk Lounge

9.5
Café · Downtown Peterborough · $$

Boardwalk works for families because the activity gives mixed ages a reason to stay together. The game library, family programming, sweets, sandwiches, and approachable mains make the room easier to navigate than a standard dinner stop.

3

Fork It

9.8
Breakfast · Downtown Peterborough · $$

This is an easy family breakfast pick because the menu covers both simple plates and more built-out orders. Pancakes, French toast, classic breakfasts, breakfast sandwiches, and lighter salads give mixed-age groups enough lanes without needing a special-occasion setup.

4

Apollo Grill

8.8
Diner · Lansdowne West · $$

Apollo Grill works for family ordering because the menu keeps the choices familiar and flexible. Chicken tenders, hot dogs, veggie burger, fries, onion rings, and milkshakes sit beside the signature burgers.

5

The Speak Easy Cafe

9.2
Breakfast · Downtown Peterborough · $

Daytime hours, pancakes, breakfast plates, burgers, wraps, sides, and kids-menu coverage make this an easy fit for mixed-age tables. The room is casual enough for a practical family breakfast or lunch stop.

6

Chef Basel Cuisine

9.7
Diner · Lansdowne Street Corridor · $$

The menu is flexible enough for family ordering: breakfast plates, pizza, burgers, wraps, poutine, salads, and familiar mains all coexist. That matters more than a narrow theme when different ages need different landing spots.

7

Golden Wheel Restaurant

8.4
Chinese · Lansdowne West · $

The menu leans on familiar Chinese-Canadian staples, family-style sharing, casual service, and easy combinations of rice, soup, ribs, and chicken plates. That makes Golden Wheel a practical fit for mixed-age meals when the group wants comfort over ceremony.

8

Ng Saigon Boys

8.9
Vietnamese · Lansdowne West · $

Family dinners, mild noodle soups, spring rolls, fried rice and familiar crossover dishes give mixed-age tables several low-friction paths. It is the kind of casual restaurant where one diner can get pho while another stays with Pad Thai or General Tao Chicken.

9

The Dirty Burger Company

8.8
Burgers · Hunter Street West / Café District · $$

Families have a workable path here: a casual room, a Wednesday kids-meal offer, familiar burgers, smaller burger formats, fries, shakes, and enough sides for mixed appetites.

10

Tora Sushi

9.2
Japanese · Downtown Peterborough · $$

Families get a forgiving menu shape: familiar rolls, ramen bowls, chicken dishes, rice bowls, and party trays all sit together. One diner can stay close to basics while another orders something more specific.

11

One Fine Food

8.8
Italian · Lansdowne Street Corridor · $$

Families can stay flexible here: pizza, pasta, sandwiches, brunch plates, desserts and market browsing cover a wider set of tastes than a narrow fine-dining format. The room can be polished without making the meal feel too formal.

12

Dragon Yan

8.8
Chinese · Lansdowne Street Corridor · $$

The menu leans friendly to family ordering: familiar comfort dishes, mild entry points, family dinners, and a sit-down option attached to the takeout flow.

13

The Favourite Greek

8.9
Greek · Downtown Peterborough · $$

The family read comes from the menu rather than a children's program: family dinners, Chicken Finger Dinner, mild pita-wrap routes, shareable sides and a casual downtown room make the order forgiving for mixed-age groups.

14

Taso's Restaurant and Pizzeria

9.3
Greek · Lansdowne West · $$

Taso's has the menu shape families usually need: pizza, pasta, burgers, salads, Greek plates, and desserts all in one place. It is broad without becoming anonymous because the Greek-and-Italian centre stays visible.

15

Wee Wok Express

8.4
Chinese · Downtown Peterborough · $$

This is family-friendly in the takeout sense: familiar dishes, easy sharing, and a menu broad enough for mixed preferences. It should not be read as a kids-menu promise; it is a practical group-order card.

16

Curry Village

8.6
Indian · Downtown Peterborough · $$

The room presents itself as welcoming to diners young and old, and the menu makes family ordering practical through mild kormas, Butter Chicken, breads, rice, and combination dinners. Spice-sensitive diners still have clear routes without losing the Indian-restaurant character.

17

Matsu Sushi Restaurant

8.6
Japanese · East Peterborough · $$

Families get flexibility here because the menu has both familiar and more expressive paths. Salmon Avocado Roll, Chicken Donburi, Vegetable Tempura, and Beef Udon Noodle Soup can sit beside spicier Korean dishes, so mixed-age tables are not forced into one narrow ordering style.

18

Hanoi House

9.4
Vietnamese · Lansdowne West · $$

Families get breadth without needing a special-occasion mood. Banh mi, fried rice, noodle soups, fresh rolls, broken rice, spring rolls, and pork belly fries make it easier to feed different appetites in one visit.

19

The Railyard Café and Taphouse

8.8
Upscale Casual · Hunter Street West / Café District · $$$

Mixed-age groups can work here because the menu has breakfast sandwiches, pizzas, salads, familiar mains, smoked proteins, and flexible sides. It is better framed as family-usable than as a dedicated kids-menu destination.

20

Levantine Grill

9.3
Middle Eastern · Downtown Peterborough · $$

Families get simple entry points through chicken shawarma wraps, bowls, fries-adjacent comfort in Shawarma Poutine, and sweet finishers like Baklava, while adults can still order deeper into platters and pies.