Camana Bay-based restaurant Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink has introduced what it calls a healthy menu for children.
The eaterie says its fish and chips are made from fresh, local, sustainably-fished Wahoo, Triggerfish and Snapper. Indeed, the restaurant is a member of Cayman Sea Sense and fries are cut daily and never frozen. The restaurant also offers home-made pizzas and its chickens are reared without hormones or antibiotics.
Michael Schwartz told the Compass eating good food had always been ‘a given’ in his household.
“My kids don’t all have the same eating habits but my wife and I find that if we offer a good, healthy variety, they can usually find something they like to eat,” he said. “
To a large extent what I serve in my restaurants is the food my family and I like to eat.
Try something new
Chef Schwartz added he thought that it was ‘super important’ for parents and restaurants to not talk down to children when it came to food.
“I’m really tired of seeing those advertisements telling parents, ‘hide their vegetables here’, and kids’ menus with a bunch of fried grease that they think kids want to eat,” he said. “It’s BS if you ask me. You’d be surprised that if you take the time to show kids where food comes from and bring fresh ingredients into the house, how much more likely they are to try something new. Now I’m not saying you need to be cooking elaborate meals from scratch every night or offer three course children’s tasting menus. A little goes a long way.”
The restaurant’s dough is made fresh daily for its wood-fired oven, he said. Each dish on the children’s menu comes with a fruit punch made from a blend of juices and finished with real pomegranate grenadine.
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