The maxim that timing is everything has never been truer than when eating out with babies and small children. Get the timing wrong and even the most child-friendly eatery will fail to ensure you have a good experience

There are some places that you just don’t want to tell anyone about. The Buenos Aires Cafe was already a favourite weekend haunt of ours before Jack arrived. After his arrival it became one of those places that helped keep me sane during and after maternity leave. It is an easy (but oh so virtuous) walk through Greenwich Park from our house

Marylebone High Street boasts some of the chicest restaurants and shops north of Oxford Street. It was unfortunate, then, that our first family foray there coincided with torrential rain which put paid to my hopes of browsing