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Best Kids Cafes with Play Areas

Play equipment inside Pinwheels Cafe

Updated: Jan 05, 2025

When it comes to high chairs and babycinos, Brisbane's got it covered. Each of the child-friendly cafes listed below have gone the extra mile, with play areas and kids menus to keep younger cafe goers happy while parents and carers relax with a coffee and bite to eat. Some have entire playgrounds on site while others have chalk boards, drawing corners or fun miniature libraries to keep everyone smiling. Here are best cafes in and around Brisbane with fantastic indoor and outdoor play areas for kids:

Vend Cafe
VEND Cafe Virginia
A retro-cool, child- and dog-friendly cafe in Virginia serving up dishes crafted from locally-sourced produce, VEND Cafe has a huge outdoor play area (which both kids and parents will love!) set under shade sails, with plenty of space for large groups and for your little ones to run around.
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Jungle Adventure Play
Interior of Jungle Adventure Play
Located in Tingalpa and North Lakes, this massive jungle-themed adventure wonderland for all ages has an onsite cafe and restaurant, the perfect spot to watch The Jungle’s antics under the jungle canopy, protected from the wilds while you enjoy a delicious bite to eat in the fully licensed venue
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Cream House Premium Kids Cafe
Cream House Sunnybank Hills
Located in Sunnybank Hills, Cream offers a unique top quality dining experience for adults with a fantastic state of the art indoor play area for kids aged 6 years and under. The café boasts an abundance of spacious, family-sized tables, complete with comfy chairs and cosy lounges, with a diverse menu
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Pinwheel Island Kids Cafe
Pinwheel Island Kids Cafe
Macgregor’s Pinwheel Island Kids Cafe is a fabulously bright and cheery space, boasting great food and super-fun play options. Best suited to kids under seven (although older siblings are welcome), Pinwheel Island is a dream come true for any fun-loving kid and their parents/carers
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Birds And Bees Cafe
Birds And Bees Cafe Everton Hills
Serving a delicious menu of Colombian-flavoured dishes, and with tables arranged beneath the large undercover balcony overlooking the treetops, Birds and Bees Cafe also offers a fully fenced children's play area complete with chalkboard and miniature tables and chairs
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Cafe Diversity
Cafe Diversity Redcliffe
This licensed cafe restaurant in the heart of Redcliffe, across the road from the sea, has a dedicated kids menu and an excellent onsite play area that even has swings for the little ones
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Victoria Park Bistro
Victoria Park Bistro
Victoria Park Bistro has it all - an onsite putt putt course, kids playground, Toptracer, and on weekends and holidays, lawn games and a jumping castle. The family friendly bistro itself is open for all day dining, from breakfast to dinner on weekends and there's onsite parking too
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The Nurso
The Nurso, Chandler
The family friendly nursery at Chandler has an onsite cafe with childrens menu, a small kids play area and the Nurso Farm hwere kids can get up close to alpacas, hens, guinea fowls and ducks. There are also tricycles for kids to ride around the nursery with their parents
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Chapter IV
Chapter IV Paddington
With a secluded verandah overlooking Brisbane's inner north, and one of Brisbane's best breakfast menus, this cafe is the ideal place to take the kids. They have their own children's play room with a thoughtful collection of toys and activities to keep little ones entertained
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The Alley
The Alley Everton Park
The highlight for families here is definitely the on site playground. There is nothing quite like sitting down quietly for morning tea while the kids have a ball and meet new friends on the play equipment
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Black Milk Coffee
Black Milk Coffee Oxley
Black Milk Coffee is a hidden gem of a child and dog friendly cafe, with a creative industrial vibe and a Mexican influenced menu
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The Cafe Kalina
Cafe Kalina Springfield
With stunning countryside views, this family friendly cafe is surrounded by pathways leading to adventure playgrounds and equipment which will delight the littlest of family members including a climbing wall aimed at smaller children
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Peach Cafe
Peach Cafe, Auchenflower
With a spacious courtyard out the back and a fully fenced outdoor playground around the side, this cafe is ideal for families. The menu has thoughtfully added children's meal deals with sandwich, juice and fruit platters included
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Cafe Lagarto
Cafe Lagarto Samford
Samford's Lifestyle Centre is home to this country style cafe with its own fenced play area, suitable for younger children and there's even some farm animals to see. Seating for this cafe is a dotted around the nursery with calming water features and colorful flowers to inspire the inner gardener.
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The Secret Garden
Crepe caravan at edge of garden
A charming open air cafe specializing in crepes and surrounded by grassy parklands and huge trees, and with a fantastic undercover play area, it makes a particularly conducive child-friendly spot to meet for coffee
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