Hoping your kids are secretly perfecting their French toast, omelet and home barista techniques during the two weeks leading up to Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 13th? Or just hoping they can at least accurately land the milk in the cereal bowl? If that’s not in the cards for your family, here’s a rundown of some local spots offering special Mother’s Day meals. I’ll add to the list as new info becomes available. Meanwhile, we’ll be figuring out where to eat around the Expo Line this weekend and for subsequent inevitable rides. Check back in a few days for another installment of Mother’s Day-themed posting around here.

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Taster Tots Travels: San Francisco, Or Eating Our Way Through the Ferry Building

April 18, 2012
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We hit the 101 North last week with a To Do wish list that well exceeded what we were realistically able to accomplish. Is there any other way when traveling as a family? So it goes. Because this was the longest road trip we’d done with both kids, we broke up the drive with overnight [...]

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A Tale of Two Patios: Alcove Café and San-Sui on Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz

April 3, 2012
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Kid Hit Menu Items: Alcove in Los Feliz has a packed case smack dab up in front full of big fluffy baked goods. Not an option — or an issue — at San-Sui a couple blocks north on Hillhurst, which offers a straightforward Japanese menu geared towards Angelenos’ palates that will appeal to children, provided [...]

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March 21, 2012
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Anybody who’s involved in anything near this business of mommy blogging knows about those odd product and contest offers that show up in ye olde In Box. Toothpaste samples, nose wipes, toilet training flash cards, you name it. So it’s refreshing when someone local reaches out to share a special quirky passion project. A few [...]

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Forget Crossing the 405 for Persian Food: Shiraz Restaurant, Glendale

March 12, 2012
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Kid Hit Menu Items: Heaping mounds of rice at Shiraz Restaurant in Glendale come in all manners of traditional Persian preparations and forms, from plain saffron to baghali polo. The latter can be a clever sneaky delivery system for lima beans and fresh dill. Surprisingly enough the sour cherry loaded albaloo polo didn’t play too [...]

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Very Friendly Vampiros: Mexicali Taco & Co., Chinatown

March 2, 2012
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Kid Hit Menu Items: Sure, quesadillas with a mix of cheeses (or meat optional) is probably a busy workhorse in the kid-friendly Mexicali Taco & Co. (Twitter: @MexicaliTaco) stable, but the signature Vampiro might be the great carnivorous equalizer. A flour tortilla grilled to ideal crispness, filled with a densely distributed layer of killer chopped [...]

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