by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

Even if your baby tends to be calm and placid when eating out, using restaurant highchairs is no one's favorite thing to do. The hostess usually points out at a stack of chairs kept over by the bathroom. You have to wrestle them apart, heft it through the dining room with other diners staring at your clumsiness, then finally put it down in a walkway where waiters bump into your baby and sigh every 2 minutes. Oh, and the thing's filthy. Enjoy your dinner!
But if you have one of these clip-on highchairs, it's a different proposition. You travel low-pro with an extra bag on your arm. Everyone stares at your cute infant instead of the dumb parent sweating with a highchair. You sit down, you unfold the highchair, you clip it onto the table, and you're set. Now your baby takes up no more space than any other diner. You're unobtrusive, and can relax and just enjoy the meals. It's hard to trust a clip-on chair, we know. What if it gives way and your baby falls" Here are 5 models that clamp like champs and won't let go.

1. Phil&Teds Lobster: The beauty of the Lobster is that it's not a clamp (think clothespin or binder clip), it's a vice. You slide the chair onto your table with the handles resting on top, then turn big, easy knobs on either side to screw it tight. That thing is not going anywhere, (Bedbathandbeyond, $89.99)

2. Inglesina Fast: This chair has everything you could possibly want in a portable highchair. It folds i...