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Since the Sandos Playacar Resort is all-inclusive, all your meals, snacks and drinks (including alcohol) are included in the price. All but one restaurant at the Sandos Playacar Resort is open to children, although a few are more appropriate than others. None have specific kids' menus, but many of the a la carte restaurants have food items that appeal to young palates, while the buffets are naturally great for children, since they can pick out exactly what they'd like to eat - and then go back for seconds!
The number of nights you can book at the reservations-only restaurants depends on the number of nights you are staying at the resort. Reserve your times as soon as possible (at Guest Services at the Meeting Point lobby/entrance to the Beach section of the resort), to get your preferred times.
Here's a peek at the main restaurants, all of which have high chairs for young diners:
Festival Buffet: This is the main eating spot open for three meals daily under a huge, open-air palapa in the Beach section. Offerings at breakfast include Mexican specialties (chilequilies and empanadas), French toast and pancakes (with melted chocolate topping!), an omelet station, cereal, sausage, bacon, fresh fruit, yogurt and more. Lunch features a pasta station, sauteed chicken and beef, salads, vegetables, fish and other entrees, plus a dessert spread. Dinner varies nightly, with different themes: Mexican, International, Mediterranean, French, etc. We always found plenty to eat with something for everyone at the busy Festival Buffet.
Riviera Buffet: This air-conditioned restaurant in the Riviera section is supposedly open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but we found it closed at lunchtime on our last day in Mexico. Food items are similar to those offered in the Festival Buffet, plus pizza.
Itztapalapa Buffet: This restaurant adjacent to the activity pool offers breakfast and lunch items similar to the Festival Buffet, just in a cozier atmosphere. By night, it's transformed into a Mexican buffet restaurant, with absolutely delectable Mexican favorites: tacos, tostados, fajitas, refried beans, beef hash, roasted meat on a spit, several salads, soups and a dessert table full of items like flan, churros and tres leches cake.
Piemonte Italian Buffet: This is a reservations-only restaurant with all sorts of buffet items that appeal to children, namely pasta and pizza.
Asiana Oriental Restaurant: Here, you order off of a menu for a table-service meal. Choose from miso or five-spiced chicken noodle soup to start, then consider items like sashimi, egg rolls or oriental salad, followed by entrees such as chicken tandoori, pad thai, or Siam Duck. We found the food here extremely tasty and filling. Reservations only.
Le Gourmet French Restaurant: This is another a la carte menu that we steered clear of with our children ranging in age from 6 to 12; it just appeared to sophisticated for their tastes with items like onion soup, scallops with brandy, filet mignon with bearnaise sauce. Reservations only.
El Gaucho Steak Restaurant: We also opted out of this a la carte restaurant, which features entrees such as rib-eye, T-bone, BBQ pork ribs, salmon in capers and seafood casserole. Reservations only.
Fogo de Janeiro Brazilian Restaurant: Start with salad or soup from a buffet, then enjoy all sorts of different grilled meats (beef, turkey, sausage), served off the skewer at your table and accompanied by sauteed vegetables, plantains and corn on the cob. A highlight was the roasted pineapple with cinnamon. Our group of children enjoyed the food, even if service was a bit slow and the meal lengthy. Reservations only.
Riviera Blue Snack Bar & Buffet: We enjoyed this casual spot for lunch near the adults-only pool in the Riviera section, since you can order sandwiches, hot dogs or cheeseburgers off the menu, or choose from the hot buffet items (including pizza). In the evening, it transforms into a candle-lit, romantic setting – the one adults-only eatery at the resort. The menu in the evening includes soup, salads and seafood entrees, such as grouper, salmon and grilled tuna.
Agave Snack Bar: This is a little stand on the beach offering hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, popcorn and self-serve, soft-serve ice cream. My children absolutely loved that they could serve themselves ice cream cones here and at the poolside Itztapalapa Buffet restaurant.
Room Service: Available 24 hours/day; menu items include sandwiches, salads, tacos and chicken wings.
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