Discover the best places to have a snack with kids and enjoy fun and delicious moments with your family. A good snack with kids can be as much fun as an afternoon at the games. Many cafeterias surprise the kids (and adults too) with their amazing cakes and many places add games and fun options to add to having the kids as diners. Discover these 8 perfect places for a snack with kids in Buenos Aires.
1. Ladrillo Juego y Café
Ladrillo Juego y Café is the first specialty coffee shop in Buenos Aires that has a playground designed for kids. While kids explore, climb and play with giant blocks, adults can relax with a menu of specialty coffees and a selection of artisanal pastries.
📍📍Villa Urquiza. Blanco Encalada 5636
2. Merope
Merope is in Palermo and is a Colombian cafeteria with exquisite and different desserts that may seem different and fun to the most curious children. One of their specialties is the Banana Split full of flavor, candies, flavored dips and wafers. But also the pancakes with fruits and the smoothies make a perfect and colorful combination for a great snack with kids in Buenos Aires.
Merope
📍Gurruchaga 1887
Open Mondays from 10am to 7pm. Tuesday to Sunday from 9hs to 20.30hs.
3. La Giralda
La Giralda is a classic. It may not be the most colorful or fun place to have a snack with kids, but at least once any child should live the experience of having a hot chocolate with churros in a classic place that, although it has been restored, preserves its vintage feel. In addition, you can have a snack with children inside or at the tables outside and being on Corrientes Avenue, it is perfect to go before or after a walk or the theater.
La Giralda
Corrientes 1453
📅Open every day from 7hs.
4. Malcriada Café
There are so many delicious things to eat at Malcriada Café that any human being, child or adult, would have trouble choosing. You have the Matilda Cake, which is the reference cake at chocolate level and if you saw the play or the movie Matilda, you know which one it is. But there are also chocotorta alfajores, huge croissants, Key Lime cake and of course, fruit smoothies and excellent specialty coffee.
Malcriada Café
📍Ravignani 1338
Open from Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 7.30pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 10hs to 20hs.
5. OKIDOKI Café
If you want to go out to a place to have a snack with kids that has games and where the grown-ups can be distracted, OkiDoki Kids Café is a great place. It is a cafeteria for children up to 9 years old. There are games of all kinds: inflatables, ball games, a soft playground and role-playing games. Here all ages can find something to have fun. Adults find here a place to chat while the kids eat, jump and play non-stop. Access to OKIDOKI is by shifts of 1 hour and 50 minutes that can be booked on their website. It has two branches, so check which one is closer to you.
OKIDOKI Kids Café
📍Oso: Gaona Av. 3036 – Flores
📍Conejo: Av. Alvarez Thomas 1542 – Villa Ortuzar
6. Snacks with balls
Families tend to avoid fast food places, especially if they are looking for a good snack with children, but sometimes you have to give in. If this is your case, and you’re going to end up in one of the big fast food chains, at least make sure it’s one with a ball pit. Here is a list of places with a ball pit in Buenos Aires.
7. Snacking outdoors
A great proposal if you are looking for places to have a snack with children, but you want something outdoors where they can run, move around and get some sun, the best thing to do is to choose among the gastronomic patios in Buenos Aires.
8. Planet Xs
We leave you with one of the best places to have a snack with children, especially if they are very young. Planeta Xs is a space with a large play area for different ages, including a special area for babies, a ball game, slides and educational activity stations. The cafeteria offers sweet and savory options, with a children’s menu and TACC-free alternatives. With a colorful and safe environment, it is the ideal place to share a carefree family afternoon.
📍Guardia Vieja 4558
There are many options to eat and drink and the kids will enjoy it.