baby-bar-0310.jpgA debate that will be familiar to any resident of Brownstone Brooklyn—whether or not children should be allowed in bars—was elevated to the national spotlight when CNN picked up an old thread on Brooklynian and a more recent story in The Courier this week about how the Windsor Terrace bar Double Windsor had banned babies after 5 p.m. We are Windsor Terrace and Park Slope parents like everyone else, one of the owners told The Courier. But the bottom like is that this is a bar, and most of our customers feel like it’s not an appropriate place for kids after hours. A single father profiled in the CNN story, however, contends that a little common sense and moderation are all that are needed for peace and harmony: “I’m not going to keep her out past 7 p.m. When the bar starts filling up, that’s when we head home…I’m not knocking back double vodkas while my daughter is stumbling around.” We’ll confess to having taken our school-age kids to Radegast for an occasional late-afternoon beer on the weekends, though like the guy in the CNN story, we’ve certainly never stayed past 7 p.m. and it’s always been combined with buying the kids dinner.
Brooklyn Brewhaha: Babies in Bars [CNN]
Photo from Babble.com


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  1. Cillmylandlord, you have to tell us the bar. Come on… babies and dogs, I am so there. I want a dog to play with the moppet. (Sadly, husband disagrees, we are in negotiations.)

    One thing I have begun to learn is that the bloom of bringing the wee ones to a pub falls off the rose when the wee ones develop opinions. The one and only time the moppet came to a stoner gathering she was really upset, because we’d told her it was a party and yet there were no balloons, no cake, and no other moppets to play with. I’m assuming this only gets worse the older they get… until they learn to read quietly in the corner?