Picture the scene....proud mums surrounded by their incredibly grateful loved ones, in a glamorous location, within a contemporary pristine environment. Children laughing, eating their healthy, tasty meals with impeccable manners, entertained by serving staff with sunny smiles, multi tasking with efficient service and built-in Mary Poppins qualities.

So was that you? Doh - back to reality!

Few establishments exist that can provide families with excellent service, super food and amazing entertainment for the kids.

Which is exactly why entertainthekids.com has teamed up with catered4thekids to help them promote their new accreditation to parents. It does exist! You just have to look for it.

Kirsty McGregor from entertainthekids.com explains: "Pubs and restaurants quite easily chuck in the phrase 'family friendly' nowadays, especially as they're noticing the wider opportunities to market their food offering to families since the smoking ban. But we've seen that this phrase is used too often without any reality or quality behind it.

So we took the decision to list only the restaurants on our Days Out pages that we consider to be exceptional in terms of facilities for families and quality of food. If you take out the biggest chains, which have the facilities, but not necessarily the food quality or service, then I'm afraid we've only managed to find 40 establishments across the UK. These are usually those that have won one of the various ‘Family Pub of the Year' awards.

But we were struggling to differentiate the others, until we came across the newly formed catered4thekids, set up by the highly acclaimed Carl May. We've now agreed to promote all the restaurants that achieve the catered4thekids accreditation on our website, and we think it's such a good idea that we're doing all we can to help them promote the brand to parents."

Carl from catered4thekids agreed "We have established a much needed benchmark that will give families the opportunity to locate places to eat that they can be sure offer great quality family dining. As parents we appreciate the time that you have to go out is precious and should not be wasted eating the same processed meals.

To ensure that children receive healthier food and drink we have drawn up a set of standards that must be achieved. If they are successful they are awarded their certificate and place upon the website for all to find. We ensure that the accredited establishments maintain the standards by regular checks with a well briefed team of mystery shoppers and monitor the quality of both suppliers and produce."