Sue Perichon couldn\u2019t find a place for adults to socialize and bring children, so she\u2019s creating her own. | Source: Courtesy Li Daria<\/p>\n
Published Aug. 12, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n
Sue Perichon has spent years looking for a place in the city where she can hang out with friends and bring her kids. After having her first baby, the Pac Heights mom worried about her stroller fitting into cramped cafes or the sound of crying bothering people working on laptops.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just never felt like I found a cafe that was welcoming for me,\u201d Perichon says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she had her second child, going out became even more challenging. \u201cManaging two toddlers while also finishing a conversation with a friend just felt near impossible,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So Perichon decided to create the space she craved. She\u2019s set to open Little Maison (opens in new tab)<\/a>, San Francisco\u2019s first \u201cplay cafe,\u201d this year in Cow Hollow. It will be a unique type of third space: Unlike tot-centric places such as playgrounds and library children\u2019s sections, a play cafe is designed to appeal to kids and adults alike, an indoor version of successful spaces she already loves such as the Presidio\u2019s Tunnel Tops Park<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue Perichon couldn\u2019t find a place for adults to socialize and bring children, so she\u2019s creating her own.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[27769,2305,15231,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-431218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-cafes","tag-children","tag-cow-hollow","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}