Family Friendly Restaurant Guide 2025

Cafés

Betterday Coffee and Kitchen

Indoor and outdoor seating

Straightforward, made-from-scratch breakfast and lunch featuring handheld breakfast burritos with red or green NM chile. Located in the Solana Center on W. Alameda Street. There is a kids area as well as patio seating. Coffee is done right with attention to detail but is not fussy. In-person, carryout, and online ordering are available

Amenities: Children’s menu, cups with lids, play area, changing table in women’s room.

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic

505-780-5638

Café Fresh

Indoor seating

Café Fresh, nestled within the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market pavilion, offers a refreshing pause from shopping at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market on Saturdays or the Railyard Artisan Market on Sundays. With hearty snacks and fresh drinks, seasonal delights keep the menu lively. Every purchase supports the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, ensuring its sustainability. Eat fresh, support locals, and enjoy the vibrant market experience.

Amenities: Cups with lids, changing table in women’s restroom, family restroom

Menu Options: Vegetarian

347-693-8271

Café Hall

Indoor and outdoor seating

Visit Café Hall in the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market pavilion for breakfast burritos, pastries, donuts, juice, and coffee sourced from local businesses like Whoo’s Donuts, Chocolate Maven, Angel’s Bakery, and Aroma Coffee. Enjoy a delicious breakfast and support the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, as all purchases help underwrite its operating costs. Open during the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market hours.

Amenities: Cups with lids, changing table in women’s restroom, family restroom

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic

347-693-8271

Chocolate Maven Bakery and Café

Indoor and outdoor seating

The Maven is an artisanal bakery and café that has been providing scrumptious lunch, brunch, and baked treats to Santa Fe for 30 years. In that time, it has grown to become an award-winning bakery and a must-visit restaurant where customers have a view into the bakery in action.

Amenities: Highchairs and booster seats, cups with lids, coloring placemats and crayons

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic

505-984-1980

Ohori's Coffee Roasters

Indoor and outdoor seating, drive-thru

Crafting its own freshly roasted beans, Ohori’s also serves a wide range of drinks, pastries, and locally made burritos. Come enjoy its St. Francis location’s renovated seating: new booths and a couch area. At Luna, it shares space with Chomp dining hall. Ohori’s loves to see happy children enjoying themselves with grandparents, aunties, and friends, hanging out between transitions and after school.

Amenities: Cups with lids, baby changing table in both restrooms

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, organic

505-699-9622

Revolution Bakery

Indoor seating

If you’re looking for stellar gluten-free loaves made in small batches, seek no further than Revolution Bakery. This is a small, woman-owned bakery located in historic downtown Santa Fe.

Amenities: Cups with lids

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic

505-346-2669

Sweet Santa Fe

Indoor and outdoor seating

New Mexico’s most awarded chocolate shop with a boutique café menu.

Amenities: Cups with lids, play area, children’s menu, baby changing table in both restrooms

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free

505-428-0012

Tribes

Indoor and outdoor seating

Tribes coffeehouse offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner all day every day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Family-friendly relaxed atmosphere with muffins, scones, and cinnamon rolls. In addition, there’s a beautiful patio to enjoy.

Amenities: Highchairs, cups with lids

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, halal

505-570-0723

Wild Leaven Bakery - Santa Fe and Taos

Indoor and outdoor seating

Wild Leaven Bakery is a small family-owned and operated business specializing in long-fermentation artisan sourdough bread, pastries, sweets goods, and soups and stews using high-quality (local and organic) ingredients. It supports farmers, ranchers, and producers in the Northern NM and Southern Colorado bioregion to strengthen our local food economy while prioritizing heritage and heirloom grains.

Amenities: Highchairs, cups with lids, family restroom, changing tables

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic, locally produced ingredients

‪505-395-6661

Cake’s Café

Indoor seating

Cake’s is a family friendly (and dog friendly) café, serving breakfast all day. It hosts kids karaoke every first and third Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. It also hosts kids birthday parties. Pizza, French toast, and Italian sodas are top sellers

Amenities: Highchairs, cups with lids, coloring pages, play area, children’s menu

Menu Options: Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free

505-469-1636

Casual

Craft Donuts & Coffee

Indoor seating

Featuring fresh-made donuts to order and premium coffee and espresso drinks. Also Italian sodas and cocoa for little ones.

Amenities: Cups with lids, changing tables in both restrooms

Menu Options: Vegetarian

505-658-6515

Joe’s Dining

Indoor and outdoor seating

One-of-a-kind and family-owned, Joe’s has been the locals’ favorite since 2002. Serving you the highest quality locally-sourced, European-influenced, and utterly delicious American comfort food including pizza. Full bar. Make a reservation for Joe’s very popular Sunday brunch. The year-round patio is dog friendly. The Red Room can be reserved for large parties. Joe’s mission statement says it all: Serving local sustainable food to strengthen our health, to protect our land, and to grow our economy.

Amenities: Highchairs, cups with lids, coloring placemats and crayons, children’s menu

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten free, vegan, organic

505-471-3800

Plaza Café

Indoor and outdoor seating

At the Plaza Café Southside, guests will also get a taste of just what the Southwest is all about. Diners are treated like family, and the staff is proud to share an authentic Santa Fe experience with everyone who enters.

Menu Options: Vegetarian, locally produced ingredients

505-424-0755

Paper Dosa

Indoor and outdoor seating

This place is designed to accommodate families, with large round booths and outdoor seating. The menu is designed to share, serving up big bowls of curry and large thin dosas.

Amenities: Highchairs, cups with lids, booster seats, family restroom, changing tables

Menu Options: Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, organic, halal

505-310-8019

 

Fast Casual

Back Road Pizza

Indoor and outdoor seating

Local neighborhood award-winning pizzeria in the Triangle District.

Amenities: Kids menu, cups with lids, coloring placemats, highchairs, changing tables in both restrooms

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten free, vegan

505-955-9055

Rowley Farmhouse Ales

Indoor and outdoor seating

A farm-to-table gastropub and brewery.

Amenities: Children’s menu

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten free, vegan, organic

505-428-0719

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Indoor and outdoor seating

Tumbleroot’s Agua Fria location is a beautiful taproom and music venue—the historic Club Alegría—which has been a cornerstone of Santa Fe culture for decades. Locals have gathered here to enjoy music, food, handcrafted libations, dancing, and perhaps a game of pool, board games, darts, or foosball. Our outdoor patio overlooks a bubbling koi pond where hops creep up trellises and guests relax to watch the sunset, sip cocktails, listen to music on our outdoor stage, play lawn games, or grab a bite from our food truck.

Amenities: Changing table in women’s bathroom, play area

Menu Options: vegetarian, gluten-free

505-303-3808

Casual Fine Dining

Apothecary Dining

Indoor Seating

Apothecary delights in sharing delicious, organic, high-nutrition meals with families. Kids will love the cheese pizza, vegan nachos, grilled cheese, and more. Quench your thirst with a nourishing fruit smoothie or milkshakes. Easy parking in the Sandoval Parking Garage across from the Lensic.

Amenities: Kids menu, cups with lids, highchairs, live music

Menu Options: Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, organic

505-986-5037

India House

Indoor Seating

India House is considered one of the best in the world when it comes to flavor and fragrance. When Indian food comes to our minds, our mouths fill up with water, and we can’t resist eating. India House is a prominent Indian restaurant in Santa Fe, and is known for offering the best vegetarian and non-vegetarian Indian dishes in town.

Amenities: Highchairs

Menu options: Vegetarian, cups with lids

505-471-2651