How To Bring Your Kid To a Bar and Not Be A Jerk About It
- Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News
Last week, Greenwood Park, a local staple for the Greenwood Heights crowd, caused a Very Brooklyn Controversy with a new rule barring parents from bringing kids into the bar past 4 p.m. Local teachers don’t want to see their students in the only neighborhood bar, local parents don’t see what the big deal is, etc. etc.
This is just another in a long string of conflicts over the past few years between parents who don’t want to be exiled from the bar scene for having kids, and everyone else, who generally would rather not do their drinking around small children. In the interest of staying diplomatic here, we figured we’d take the high road and focus on — what else? — etiquette. After all, if you’re going to bring a kid along when you grab a beer, there are ways to do it without making servers and other patrons, not to mention your kids, miserable.
Mining the experience of bartenders, parents, and teachers, a few things to consider before toting your baby with you to the local bar, along with a few spots in Brooklyn we hear are more friendly to the underaged set.
