Brooklyn's Kid-Friendly Beer Gardens: Hot? Not?
Browsing through Loreley’s flickr, we spotted some obviously underage youngsters enjoying the sunshine (and presumably some non-alcoholic beverages) at the Williamsburg beer garden. Figures that Loreley was mentioned in this month’s Time Out New York Kids feature on NYC’s kid-friendly biergartens. Of the seven bars featured, five are located here in Brooklyn. Their kiddie-curfews are…
Browsing through Loreley’s flickr, we spotted some obviously underage youngsters enjoying the sunshine (and presumably some non-alcoholic beverages) at the Williamsburg beer garden. Figures that Loreley was mentioned in this month’s Time Out New York Kids feature on NYC’s kid-friendly biergartens. Of the seven bars featured, five are located here in Brooklyn. Their kiddie-curfews are cited as follows — Der Schwarze Kölner (“Tykes out by: 9pm”), Franklin Park (“Tykes out by: use your discretion”), Loreley Williamsburg (“use your discretion”), Mission Dolores (“Tykes out by: 8pm”), and Spuyten Duyvil (“use your discretion”). We can understand taking the kids to Der Schwarze Kölner for pretzels and brats in the afternoon, but Mission Dolores — which doesn’t serve food — seems like an odd choice. Does this mean that any bar with outdoor space is “friendly” to rugrats during daylight hours?
Brooklyn Bar-Baby Debate Goes National [Brownstoner]
I work next to Der Schwarze Kolner and went one night at 7 with some friends for beers (at a time with no sidewalk seating) and the place was filled with screaming kids having a 6 year olds birthday party. This just seems out of whack. No kids by 9pm? Kiddie parties at happy hour? I just don’t get it. Don’t the wealthy brownstone owners own… brownstones? Can’t you have a kiddie party there instead of a BAR. And it’s a generalization but true-ish – bourgie parents often don’t seem to manage their kids… I’ve stopped going to Smooches period. I think Frank’s Bar is the only refuge for grown-ups in Ft. Greene.
I won’t bring my kids to the bar if other parents in the playground of the park stop using the word “shit” like its punctuation. Deal?
Point taken, Woodys. I guess it didn’t come off as tongue-in-cheek and I admit to being sensitive when it comes to the jaw-dropping entitlement of the stroller-pushers. If the babies just leave their clueless parents at home then I really wouldn’t have a problem with them being at the bar…
herkimermaid, my post was meant to be tongue in cheek, my point was more I dont mind imposing a little boredom on my kiddies for all the yo gabba gabba and elmo’s world I’ve suffered through over time. I’ve never actually taken my kids to a bar; when I do go to a bar without my kids I feel pretty much as you do i.e. I’m there for a break from kiddies so I damn well better not hear yours.
I don’t care if you curse in front of my kid, although I encourage you to do so in another language or dialect, since that way it sounds charming when she repeats it and not like I am a bad mom.
She’s already using “bloody” quite effectively.
Seriously, people including myself feel uninhibited with alcohol and tend to say things that aren’t exactly rated G. And talk on topics that are even less rated G. What good parent wants their kid around us people?
I get pissed when i and 8 friends or so go to The Gate and have to stand and wait for a table on the patio,while one is occupied by three kids and their coloring books and shit. Are they really spending enough,more than we would, to hold up a drinking spot?
Damn there is just so many other places to take your kid folks.
Seriously, people including myself feel uninhibited and tend to say things that aren’t exactly rated G. And talk on topics that are even less rated G. What good parent wants their kid around us people?
I get pissed when i and 8 friends or so go to The Gate and have to stand and wait for a table on the patio,while one is occupied by three kids and their coloring books and shit. Are they really spending enough,more than we would, to hold up a drinking spot?
Damn there is just so many other places to take your kid folks.
I lived in Germany and never saw beer served specifically at a playground… But then, beer is pretty ubiquitous and would never be too far (like at any one of those kiosks where they serve curry wurst, etc). I think, if anything, you’d be permitted to consume beer in a playground. You certainly can in a public park.
Worth a glance:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2010/02/double_windsor.php
@Woodys
“As a parent you have to suffer through so much kiddie crap, I think it’s a fair trade they should have to suffer through a beer every now and again”
I specifically DIDN’T have kids because I didn’t want to suffer. A bar used to be the one place I was able to go to get away from everybody else’s “kiddie crap”. Thanks for sharing.
Never saw beer served on a playground but I worked in a warehouse in Bavaria for a few weeks & they sold beer in the vending machine in the lunch room. As I was in college this was awesome.