(NEXSTAR) – The college yr is rapidly coming to an finish, and earlier than lengthy, Florida households will probably be sweating out the summer season collectively — and which means sharing extra breakfasts, lunches and dinners with the youngsters.
Whether or not you’re trying to cease for a chunk throughout a household street journey or a Saturday outing, it’s all the time good to know which eating places are geared towards a meal with the youngsters — and Yelp simply launched its record of Top 100 Family-Friendly Restaurants of 2025 to get you heading in the right direction.
Because it seems, the Sunshine State has not one however 9 eating places in Yelp’s nationwide rating — together with a Gulf Breeze eatery that was named among the many prime 10 family-friendly restaurants within the U.S.
To find out this record, Yelp says its analysts first recognized restaurant rankings with a big focus of evaluations that talked about the phrase “household pleasant.” Yelp’s analysts then ranked these companies throughout a lot of different elements, together with whole quantity of evaluations. Yelp additionally says this information is an “all-time” record, so the rankings are reflective of years and years of knowledge.
Coming in at no. 5 nationally is Flounder’s Chowder House in Gulf Breeze. The seafood eatery sits on a seaside overlooking the Santa Rosa sound. Yelpers write that adults can “chill and chat” whereas youngsters play on the restaurant’s devoted playground or inside, at a small arcade.
Listed below are the remainder of Florida’s most family-friendly eating places:
| Rank | Restaurant | Metropolis |
| 19. | Shades Bar & Grill | Inlet Seashore |
| 25. | Boxi Park | Orlando |
| 38. | The Big Cheese of Miami | Miami |
| 41. | Timoti’s Seafood Shak | Fernandina Seashore |
| 46. | Dee’s Hang Out | Panama Metropolis Seashore |
| 54. | Shells Seafood | St. Pete Seashore |
| 56. | The Boathouse | Lake Buena Vista |
| 59. | V Pizza – Mandarin | Jacksonville |
Florida’s handful of family-friendly eating places additionally consists of Shades Bar & Grill, ranked no. 19 nationally, which is famous for its patio eating, dwell music, recreation day choices and a preferred Volcano Shrimp entree, which one Yelp reviewer known as “to die for” final July. In the meantime, Boxi Park in Orlando is an open-air container park providing dwell music, video games, and quite a lot of surf and turf menu choices.
As one Yelp reviewer summarized final yr: “They’ve a youngsters’ space and beer on faucet, in the event you’ve by no means been there. [You] ought to go!”
All in all, Florida’s 9 entries have been solely threatened by one different state: Texas, which claims eight whole rankings and three in Yelp’s prime 10 — together with the no. 1 most family-friendly restaurant in the entire U.S., per Yelp.
For a full record of the highest 100 family-friendly restaurants in America, go to Yelp.
