Kids eat free in Reading

Eleven of the seventeen venues sit in RG1, which means the bulk of the action is in central Reading — Oracle shopping centre territory, the riverside, Broad Street's orbit. Four more are in RG30, which covers the Tilehurst and Prospect Street side of town, reachable in minutes rather than a cross-county drive. RG2 accounts for the remaining two. The chain spread is unusually balanced: Sizzling Pubs and Slug & Lettuce each run two sites here, while names like Côte Brasserie, Las Iguanas, and Coconut Tree fill out a range that goes well beyond the usual pub-grub default. Worth noting that several brands — Las Iguanas and Harvester among them — only extend their kids-eat-free terms during school holidays, so the time of year genuinely shapes how many of these seventeen are useful to you on any given week.

Holiday-only chains in Reading: Harvester, Village Hotels Pub & Grill, Zizzi. These quietly flip in for half-term and summer; outside the school holidays they drop off the list.

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