The Ultimate Kids Eat Free (or Cheap) Guide

Your Guide to eating out on a budget in Louisville

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Meal Deals Buffets & All You Can Eat Family Style Dining Eat & Play Places

🍔 Hey Parents — We See You! 👀

You’ve packed lunches, signed permission slips, tracked down missing shin guards, and somehow remembered which kid wanted the blue cup and which one wanted the exact same blue cup but with fewer ice cubes. And now… everyone’s hungry. Again.

We get it. You want to be that family gathered around the table, laughing over a perfectly home-cooked meal (bonus points if all the food groups are represented). And hey, sometimes you actually pull it off — gold star for you! ⭐

But let’s be real — between work, homework, sports, lessons, and just trying to keep your sanity, some nights call for someone else to handle dinner. You just want to sit down, breathe, and have someone bring you food that you didn’t have to chop, stir, or clean up afterward.

Here’s the catch: feeding a family isn’t cheap. Those “quick bites” can add up faster than your kid’s shoe size seems to change.

That’s where Macaroni KID Louisville Central & SW swoops in with your new dinner-time sidekick — the Ultimate Guide to Kids Eat FREE (or Cheap) in Louisville! 🙌

We’ve done the legwork (and fork work 🍴) to find all the local restaurants where kids eat free or at a serious discount — because saving a few bucks shouldn’t mean sacrificing fun or flavor.

Inside this guide, you’ll find:

🍕 Kids Eat Free Nights — because Tuesdays deserve a little excitement too.
🍔 Family-Style Spots — perfect for sharing (or pretending to share).
🍦 Buffets & All-You-Can-Eat Favorites — where growing appetites can really go to town.
🎠 Eat & Play Locations — because a play area = extra quiet bites for you.

So go ahead — give yourself some grace and skip the kitchen tonight. Take the family out, enjoy a meal together, and keep your wallet happy while you’re at it. Because you’re doing great, friend — and dinner doesn’t have to be fancy to be fun, filling, and family-approved. 💛

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Chili's Grill & Bar

📍 3623 Bardstown Rd, 40218

📞 (502) 301-8888

Promo: Discount thru Chili's App - Kids eat free with purchase of adult meal

The Ultimate Kids Eat Free (or Cheap) Guide in Louisville

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🍕 Meal Deals

🌟 Everyday Deals

Chili's Grill & Bar

🍔 Monday Deals

Christi's Cafe

Craft House Pizza

Frisch's Big Boy

W W Cousins

🌮 Tuesday Deals

Bob Evans

Boom Bozz Highlands

Craft House Pizza

Denny's

Marks Feed Store

W W Cousins

🍝 Wednesday Deals

Bungalow Joes

🍕 Thursday Deals

Hideout Pizzaria

🍦 Friday Deals

🍔 Saturday Deals

🍗 Sunday Deals

Beef O’Brady’s

Hungry Pelican

🍦 Buffets & All You Can Eat

Golden Corral

Hibachi Buffet

Hibachi Sushi Buffet

Jumbo Buffet

King Buffet

Umami Buffet

🍔 Family-Style Dining

Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant

The Eagle Louisville

🎠 Eat & Play Places

Chick-fil-A

Chuck E. Cheese

Glow Worm Cafe & Play

Hauck's Corner

Mr Gatti's Pizza

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