Jessica Biel talks baby food, set to open kid-friendly restaurant 'Au Fudge'

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Multi-hyphenate Jessica Biel has her plate full being a mother to five-month-old Silas Randall, wife to superstar Justin Timberlake, and now, restaurateur. The 33-year-old actress is set to open her members-only children's dining club, Au Fudge later this year, People reports.

The actress is also very hands on with the restaurant, which she co-owns with stylist Estee Stanley, Kimberly Muller, and Monica Weinberg. Biel said: "I have some good ideas about the foods that I want to put in my body and my family’s body. The menu is not just kiddie food!"

Speaking of offerings, Stanley told Drive the District in February, "There will be a 'healthy' and a 'filthy' menu. Kids food will be incorporated into both of these menus."

She explained: "The inspiration came from me and my friends not having great places to go where we could bring our kids but still enjoy ourselves. Things are either adult-only or kid-only, nothing incorporated elements for both that had good food and atmosphere."

According to Stanley, "here will be a marketplace for food to-go, an outdoor lounge, an amazing activity center for kids with an actual indoor/outdoor tree house, sit-down dining area, bar area, etc. Really it has everything adults and kids could ever want, in one restaurant."

She added that there will be a "full bar with really fun, creative cocktails. There will also be a champagne bar" for the adults.

Meanwhile, Biel told People: "We want to have a place where I want to bring my kids, or I want to bring my girlfriends."

Biel also admitted that having a child changed her thoughts about the business, Eater L.A. reported.

"I definitely do [have a new perspective]. When we started talking about this, I didn't have kids and so when they would say to me 'We need a place where we can go and have great food and feel confident where that food is coming from and a place where my kids have fun. This is missing.' And I'm thinking 'Sure I guess, I'm come hang out. We're always trying to find a place where I could join them, where friends who didn't have kids could join them, and I didn't get it," she said. 

Now that Biel is a mother to an adorable son, though, she totally gets it. She gushes to People that her son has recently started eating solids, saying, "He has been starting some avocado and squash. I haven’t been doing any wild combinations yet. It’s been a little traditional."

Like Biel, Timberlake also recently admitted to Jimmy Fallon that fatherhood has changed him for the better. E! Online reports that the performer told his friend, "It is the most insanely amazing, wonderful, unbelievable thing to ever happen to you."