Côte Brasserie is giving families a rather welcome reason to step away from the kitchen this May half term, launching a Kids Eat Free offer across its UK brasseries from 25th May to 29th May 2026.
For parents staring down the barrel of five days of snack requests, weather negotiations and the mysterious disappearance of every clean school jumper, this is useful news.
The offer allows children aged 12 and under to enjoy complimentary meals when dining with an adult, but there is one important detail: it is available exclusively through the Côte Brasserie app.
How The Côte Brasserie Kids Eat Free Offer Works
The promotion runs Monday to Friday during May half term and is available for dine-in only.
At breakfast, children can enjoy a free breakfast with every full-price adult hot breakfast or Brasserie Breakfast purchased. Breakfast Rapide dishes are excluded, so no trying to slip through the side door with a quick coffee and a hopeful eyebrow.
Later in the day, children can enjoy a complimentary two-course Kids Set Menu meal with every full price adult main course purchased from either the Main Menu or Set Menu.
Adult meals must be bought at full price, and the offer excludes promotional, discounted or voucher-based rewards. It is also subject to availability and cannot be used alongside any other offer or promotion.
Proper Food For Smaller Diners
The point of interest here is not merely that children eat free. Many restaurant deals can manage that. The more compelling angle is that Côte appears to be treating younger diners as actual human beings with taste buds, rather than as small chaos machines fuelled only by beige carbohydrates.
The children’s menu has been created by Steve Allen, Côte’s Executive Chef and former Head Chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Pétrus. That gives the offer a little more culinary weight than the usual half-term parade of chicken nuggets, chips and parental resignation.
Children can choose from familiar dishes such as Côte’s in-house butchered burger and creamy tomato pasta bake, while slightly more adventurous young diners can try mini French onion soup or steak frites.
Desserts include rich chocolate mousse and a classic waffle sundae, which should go down well with children and quite possibly the adults pretending not to be interested.
A Half-Term Restaurant Deal With A Grown-Up Edge
Côte has long leaned into modern French dining without making the experience feel overly stiff. That balance matters for families. Parents want decent food, a glass of French wine and the faint possibility of a complete sentence. Children want something tasty, something fun and preferably something involving pudding.
The offer also includes a specially designed activity pack to help keep younger guests entertained. This is no small thing. In family dining, the gap between ordering and eating can feel like the back nine at Carnoustie in a crosswind.
A Côte spokesperson said: “We’ve designed our Kids Eat Free experience to reflect everything we stand for – quality, generosity, and time well spent around the table. Families deserve a space where everyone eats well, and no one is treated as an afterthought. This is dining out the way it should be, relaxed, flavourful, and made for sharing.”
Available Across More Than 70 UK Brasseries
The Côte Brasserie Kids Eat Free offer will be available at more than 70 brasseries nationwide, bringing the brand’s French-inspired cooking and familiar hospitality to families looking for a half-term meal that feels like a treat without turning into a financial ambush.
For families planning a day out, a shopping trip, a city break or simply a tactical escape from the washing-up, it is a neat little dining option.
The key steps are simple: download or use the Côte Brasserie app, dine in between 25th May and 29th May 2026, purchase the qualifying adult meal, and redeem the offer through the app.
To book or find your nearest Côte, visit: Côte Brasserie
Half term rarely comes with much mercy, but a proper meal, a happy child and a few minutes of grown-up conversation is about as close as it gets.
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