Restaurant with Entertainment for Family Fun and Celebration

[GrabABite]

I've surfed the web and foodie sites and now have come to Chowhound looking for some suggestions.

My family is planning to celebrate a birthday and we are looking for a "family friendly" place with some sort of 'entertainment'. We will travel from Ventura to Silverlake and Culver City to Valencia, you get the idea? In other words, traveling is not the problem although somewhere near the SF Valley would be convenient, but not necessary.

Anyway, we will have a child with us, so that filters out some types of places.

We are looking for something new, somewhere we haven't been before, and within the $$ price range.
And the key word here is 'Entertainment'.

Here are some of the places we've already been to:

Miceli's - Studio city
The Great Greek -Studio city
Vitello's - Studio City
The Greek at the Harbor - Ventura

A place with a piano player and singing would be ideal, but most any kind of music would be okay.

Would love to hear from you.

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Great Greek Restaurant
13362 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

Vitello's Restaurant
4349 Tujunga Ave, Studio City, CA 91604

The Greek at the Harbor
1583 Spinnaker Dr., Suite 101, Ventura, CA 93001

[yogachik]

Taverna Tony's in Malibu
La Cabana in Venice

both have singers/performers

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Taverna Tony
23410 Civic Center Way Ste B1, Malibu, CA 90265

[wienermobile]

Papa Cristo's Big Fat Greek Dinner only on Thursday nights. One seating $24 per person including tip and tax for a giant family style dinner with belly dancing. The Thursday Night dinner kicks off at 6:30pm with appetizers and wine tasting followed by additional appetizers, Greek salad, freshly baked bread, two entrees, several side dishes, baklava and coffee. Soft drinks are included. Ages 5 to 105. It's like you've been invited to a family party. Reservations are a must. Fun night.
http://www.papacristos.com/

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Papa Cristos
2771 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006

[GrabABite]

Thanks Wienermobile and Yogachik

Papa Cristo's & Taverna Tony sound like fun, but I think we're interested in trying out some other type of entertainment. No belly dancing this time.
Oh and also, we are going out on a Saturday night.

Still looking for more ideas if you have them.

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Papa Cristos
2771 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006

Taverna Tony
23410 Civic Center Way Ste B1, Malibu, CA 90265

[yummyinmytummy]

Papa Cristos is not worth any money you may spend. The food simply in not good, IMHO. If you want good greek, go to Sofis on 3rd street in WeHo. They often have music on Fri and sat night.

What about Dar Maghreb on Sunset. They have a great belly dancer show.

Taking the food level DOWN a notch, you could go to Tokyo Delves and play, wheel of fish.
http://www.tokyodelvessushibar.com/

Good luck

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Papa Cristos
2771 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006

Dar Maghreb
7651 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046

[goodhealthgourmet]

if you're up for Mexican i think Casa Torres in Sylmar has a mariachi band on the weekends.

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Casa Torres
12631 Glenoaks Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342

[perk]

How about Thai food...with the Thai Elvis? I always get the name of this place wrong....help Hounds....but I think it's something like Palms Thai Restaurant. You have to call and make sure he's performing that night....sometimes he's on the road. But it's decent Thai food....and a lot of fun.

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Palms Thai Restaurant
5900 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

[goodhealthgourmet]

+1. perk, that's the second time in the past few weeks that you've come to the rescue when i forgot to suggest Palms Thai! :)

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Palms Thai Restaurant
5900 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

[perk]

Any time!

[Servorg]

http://www.lafondasupperclub.com/

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La Fonda on Wilshire
2501 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90057

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[westsidegal]

CASA sanchez on centinela has live mariachi music that is played while you have dinner there.
they have a liquor license that included hard liquor (don't know the technical name for this license), so the adult that isn't driving can indulge in several vairieties of tequila while everyone else focuses on the food and music.