Play Date Social. 10655 Fairfax Blvd., Fairfax.

Ned’s New England Deck in Fairfax was already a family-friendly destination for lobster rolls and fried clam strips. Co-owner Steve Forbes previously worked with Clyde’s Restaurant Group and helped open Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak, and Stone Crab in DC, while his wife Fiona Hogan was a longtime NICU nurse at Children’s National Hospital. Now, with their own two- and four-year-old boys, the couple wanted to do more for families with young kids. Recently, they opened Play Date Social on the top floor of the restaurant, featuring a 500-square-foot play area in the middle of the dining room.

“With young kids we’re always compromising, right?,” Forbes says. “It’s like there’s either a place that’s good for them or a place that’s good for us. And

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