This brewery-meets-grill restaurant has by far the most genius idea for a kids menu -- Build Your Own Pizza.
Now before you roll your eyes and accuse me silently of being a lame-o who hasn't ever heard of Build Your Own Pizza, just listen (or read on, I guess).
They actually bring the pizza out to the table while it's still in dough form. They present it to the kid on a brick-oven style wooden tray, and next to it on the tray are the sauce, cheese and pepperonis in three little stainless ramkins.
So, the kids actually do get to build their own pizza. My son freaked. He loved it. And when the server came to get it for the oven, he was so excited he could hardly contain himself.
And by the way, it's great-tasting pizza, too. I'm pretty sure they beefed it up a bit in the back before cooking it, as it looked a lot better than the one we sent back for baking. Delicious.
Other cool things to note... plenty of high chairs and crayons, no sighs at extra-napkin requests, attentive servers, and a very accomodating "split" policy (perfect for parents who just realized the importance of 401Ks over meals out).
Enjoy... oh, and tell 'em DesMoinesFamilies.com sent ya'!