Located in Kansas City, Kansas, the Great Wolf Lodge is a family resort that offers kid-friendly accommodations with miniature log cabins in the guest rooms for children to sleep in and Nintendo game systems on every television. The Lodge also has a kid's spa and an indoor and outdoor waterpark with separate areas for toddlers, school-aged children, teens and adults. Visitors to the Great Wolf Lodge can find a variety of family-friendly restaurants nearby.
Granny's Chicken Ranch is only one-tenth of a mile from the Great Wolf Lodge. The signature breakfast at the restaurant is Granny's Big Breakfast, three eggs, hash browns or home fries, an 8-oz. pork chop or a 4-oz. salmon fillet, buttermilk pancakes and fresh fruit. Homestyle American cuisine is the specialty at dinner like fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, meatloaf and fried catfish, all of which come with all-you-can-eat salad, mashed potatoes, green beans, cinnamon rolls and biscuits. For dessert, try the peach cobbler. Granny's Chicken Ranch is open daily for lunch and dinner. The atmosphere is casual. A children's menu is available at every meal.
Granny's Chicken Ranch
1340 Village West Parkway
Kansas City, KS 66111
(913) 788-4777
grannyschickenranch.com
Stix is a family-friendly Asian restaurant located only seven-tenths of a mile from the Great Wolf Lodge. Diners can enjoy a hibachi dinner, chicken, beef, shrimp or scallops prepared at the dinner table on a hot griddle. Chinese dishes are also available, including moo shoo pork, orange-peel beef, kung pao chicken and honey-crispy shrimp. The sushi bar prepares a variety of combination platters as well as specialty hand-rolled maki. A house specialty, the Las Vegas roll consists of salmon, cream cheese, crab and rice wrapped in Nori seaweed, covered in tempura batter and deep-fried. After the meal, guests can enjoy ice cream fried in a won ton crust or cheesecake topped with house-made caramel sauce. Stix is open daily for lunch and dinner. The restaurant offers a children's menu for kids 10 and under.
Stix
1847 Village W Parkway
Kansas City, KS 66111
(913) 299-3788
stixkc.coma
Located just under a mile from Great Wolf Lodge, T-Rex is a combination of a family attraction and theme restaurant. Before or after their meal, kids can visit the restaurant's PaleoZone, which recreates a paleontological dig for dinosaur bones with opportunities to dig for fossils and gems. The menu features the ferocious flat iron steak, a specialty entree served with mashed potatoes and Caribbean-glazed vegetables. Seafood lovers may opt for the macadamia-crusted red snapper served over jasmine rice rice in a lobster-curry broth. The restaurant's signature dessert is the s'more-asaurus, graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows served hot at the table for diners to assemble. T-Rex is open daily for lunch and dinner. The restaurant offers a kid's menu.
T-Rex
1847 Village West Parkway
Kansas City, KS 66111
(913) 334-8888
trexcafe.com
