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?
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What rh and BrooklynButler said.
I hate the kid hate. This picture shows people sitting at tables, eating food. People can’t bring their kids here? What is wrong with people?
This is not The Vault. And if you’re confusing a beer garden with a bar or a club, you need to get out more.
Ditto on the stink eye comment. I just want to add to that…If parents are bringing their kids, I wish they would keep an eye on them. I don’t want to entertain your kiddies for you if you’re not paying attention.
The real issue here is that Americans have a puerile relationship to comsuming alcohol. Most americans get all twitchy and starting giggling when you say the word, “Jsgermeister.”
I hear tales of Europeans serving their teens wine with meals, and how European adults consume 3-4 glasses of wine over the course of a day – 1 at lunch, 2-3 a dinner.
And I agree with Rob – bars are places of darkness and if I can’t blab to my friends about disrespectable things, than where can I?
My kids like the hoppier beers because they have more sugars. I took them to Der Schwarze Kölner once but they found the pilsners, kolschs and the like too dry. But I’m a responsible parent; I draw the line at a couple of pints.
The problem with things like this is…then when the kids start acting a fool and the owner bans them, the parents get offended and want to boycott! It always makes me laugh.
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Hell, they serve beer at playgrounds in Germany.
UGH! that is awesome. and here in nyc we aint even ALLOWED into the playgrounds unless a child is acting as our guardian :-/
that’s it, im moving to doosledorf
*rob*
surprised no one has yet screamed GET A BABYSITTER!!!
*rob*
two kinds of people in BK 0 ones with or who have had kids and those who never had or don’t yet