Kid-friendly outdoor drinking place?
I really want to go out to a nice outdoor bar with my friends, who have a 3-yo daughter. Can anyone recommend a nice child-friendly place?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you in advance!
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Yipes!
(pull up a chair and umbrella.... waits for impending sh*t storm)
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Subject: Re: Kid-friendly outdoor drinking place?
katbka wrote: I really want to go out to a nice outdoor bar with my friends, who have a 3-yo daughter. Can anyone recommend a nice child-friendly place?
germany
Thank you in advance! -
Nah, we went there last time and the kid wasn't impressed
Seriously guys, my body craves some booze, that is within walking distance
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Indeed I can!! As long as you promise to enjoy yourselves as much as possible to the complete consternation of the "kids don't belong in bars no matter how early/how much food is served/how well-behaved the kids are/etc., etc....my suggestions:
The gate always seems to have oodles of kids.
Park Slope Ale House is kid friendly
johnny macks (although not tech. outside, the doors are flung wide open
Bar Toto (although I'm not sure if you have to eat)
Have the best time EVER. -
Thank you new2hood. I will make sure my buddies are stroller-less
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Please please just go to a restaurant with booze. A friend and I were at a bar with food and some guy was in there alone with a 3 year old and it was a) sad and b) gross.
Another option is to get new friends without children, or have them call a sitter. -
Subject: Re: Kid-friendly outdoor drinking place?
I usually bring my kids to any playground and drink cheep vodka out of a Poland Spring bottle -
Subject: Re: Kid-friendly outdoor drinking place?
ringrunner wrote: I usually bring my kids to any playground and drink cheep vodka out of a Poland Spring bottle
lolz
And yes, I vote restaurant with booze. There's nothing that's more of a buzz kill than having a toddler wandering at my feet at the Gate...I feel like I can't even speak. -
Ok, guys, I agree, everyone had there fare share of ill-behaved kids ruining the moment. But I asked for a kid-friendly place, if there are none in PS, just say so. I wasn't planning to bring them to Lucky 13, ya know!
Parents are people too, especially those, with well-behaved kids, and those, who want to meet their single friends for a drink, before heading home to put their kid to bed. I thought that was a common Park Slope thing to do. -
katbka wrote: Ok, guys, I agree, everyone had there fare share of ill-behaved kids ruining the moment. But I asked for a kid-friendly place, if there are none in PS, just say so. I wasn't planning to bring them to Lucky 13, ya know!
It is! Which is why I think a restaurant with booze (or outdoor seating) is perfect. Its not a bar so adults will be on better behavior AND you get a waitress and lots of places have happyhour specials even at tables. Win win. Kidless adults can still scream obscenities and cause a ruckus without worrying about offending little ears or stepping on little feet and moms can get their booze on
Parents are people too, especially those, with well-behaved kids, and those, who want to meet their single friends for a drink, before heading home to put their kid to bed. I thought that was a common Park Slope thing to do. Works for everyone.
Although I don't have kids, I have many friends who do and we've done happyhour in the city quite a few times with babies/toddlers...but always at restaurants. -
I don't think it's a biggie as long as your friends realize that the kid is in a bar and going to hear ... bar talk. if the parents aren't okay with that, well, then, no problem. but if the parents are going to get upset because people are cursing and talking about sex and whatever else, you might want to go somewhere else.
I third the gate. also, soda, in PH, during the day is really kid-friendly. franklin park in CH is pretty kid friendly, as well. I've been there with a friend and her baby. -
Do they have any kid friendly A.A. meetings
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Isn't that Marty Markowitz's inaugural portrait
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If you are up for the road/train trip Bohemian Hall Beer Garden in Queens is a worthwhile excursion, ($20ish cab ride from the slope, or 45 mins on train):
http://www.bohemianhall.com/home.htm
They have a GREAT selection of European beers (Czechvar, Brouczech, Hoegaarden, Krusovice, Stella, Spaten...), pitchers are relatively cheap ($14-$15), and the beer garden is absolutely huge (2-3 times bigger that the Tea Lounge on Union). I am not a parent myself, but there are always lots of parents there with children of all ages, especially during the day on Saturday. Actually, one of my favorite activities is counting the parents using their stroller's cup holder to hold their beer. The crowd is very Park Slopeish... -
I still don;t get and never will the taking kids to bars theory. I have kids and I drink. i even have a beer or a glass of wine in front of my kids. but, taking them out to a bar with me? An establishment soley for drinking and music and loud talking? how is that the new in thing to do?
If you want to have a drink with your friends, go to a restaurant and order something-don't go to a bar where people are there to just get liquored up -
Do you guys constantly talk about ass-to-mouth and anal creampies when you're in a bar?
I'm always amazed in these threads at how the childless are so insanely vulgar that kids cannot be within earshot. It's hilarious actually. And mostly naive. -
Old Time Brooklyn wrote: Do you guys constantly talk about ass-to-mouth and anal creampies when you're in a bar?
If you have to ask, you've obviously never been to a Brooklynian Happy Hour. -
The only real answer is the GATE..outside on a beautiful day or evening but I am so enjoying these responses.
OP you opened yourself to receive answers that will run from the funny to the sardonic and lots of other adjectives (good and bad) through that path.
I do have a bit of a serious answer though. So much depends on the kid and how they behave in public. We ate in Mura tonight with 2 1/2 year old grandson and this kid ate everything offered to him (raw and cooked ) with chop sticks and at the end of the meal he thanked the waitress (unprompted). Why? Because he is admittedly a Park Slope kid and has had a lot of exposure to eating out ... but more significantly he just enjoyed the attention of the other adults at the table and so he was well behaved.
I would never bring a kid to a bar but a "bar" that also was about food can be appropriate for a young child IF the adults pay lots of attention to the kid and the kid has been in training to behave in a public place.
Bottom line on my advice.. Katba.. if you can't predict this kids' reactions because you have not spent time with the child in a bar, restaurant or any other public behave yourself situation.. DON'T DO IT.... STAY HOME11 -
veets wrote: The only real answer is the GATE..outside on a beautiful day or evening but I am so enjoying these responses.
Good advice. I'd also like to add that the whole bar experience would be boring for the KID. The only place I've ever seen where everyone is comfortable is England, where you can sit outside with your friends and your kids at the pub. It's still kind of weird, but the picnic-table atmosphere is more family friendly. It's conducive to kids entertaining themselves. There's also food.
OP you opened yourself to receive answers that will run from the funny to the sardonic and lots of other adjectives (good and bad) through that path.
I do have a bit of a serious answer though. So much depends on the kid and how they behave in public. We ate in Mura tonight with 2 1/2 year old grandson and this kid ate everything offered to him (raw and cooked ) with chop sticks and at the end of the meal he thanked the waitress (unprompted). Why? Because he is admittedly a Park Slope kid and has had a lot of exposure to eating out ... but more significantly he just enjoyed the attention of the other adults at the table and so he was well behaved.
I would never bring a kid to a bar but a "bar" that also was about food can be appropriate for a young child IF the adults pay lots of attention to the kid and the kid has been in training to behave in a public place.
Bottom line on my advice.. Katba.. if you can't predict this kids' reactions because you have not spent time with the child in a bar, restaurant or any other public behave yourself situation.. DON'T DO IT.... STAY HOME11
The only place I can think of that's like that is Hanleys in Carroll Gardens. they have a large, enclosed beer garden.
Funny, I think I'd bring younger children, but not my older tweens. I don't know why. it just feels very much like a place they shouldn't be. -
Where is the beer garden where I can enjoy a drink with my 13 year old niece at my side?
My 4 year old and 16 year old nephews might want to go too. -
raw wrote: Where is the beer garden where I can enjoy a drink with my 13 year old niece at my side?
try queens first
My 4 year old and 16 year old nephews might want to go too.
then germany -
It's certainly not park slope, but sometimes a trip is worth it. The Pop Up Park at Pier 1 at old fulton under the Bkln Bridge is GREAT for kids and adults. great views, brews, some overpriced food. Plenty for kids to do: sandbox, scavenger hunt, etc. and it's just a nice place to sit and watch the boats and the bridges. I highly recommend this for people with kids.
i do not think the Gate is a place for toddlers. it's boring and will then turn most toddlers into out of control nuisances. but a SLEEPING, or otherwise occupied child in a stoller is good for the outdoor areas. -
[quote="Old Time Brooklyn"]Do you guys constantly talk about ass-to-mouth and anal creampies when you're in a bar?
Exclusively. -
I guess if it has to be a bar in the 'hood, then yes, The Gate is an option. But it's a good idea to remember that if you choose to sit outside there will be other patrons smoking, so if the parents have a problem with that, a restaurant would probably be a better fit.
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Nice one, MK! This actually pretty much goes for any outdoor drinking space.
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"taking them out to a bar with me? An establishment soley for drinking and music and loud talking? how is that the new in thing to do?" - Long time sloper
bars keep the street “reasonably populated until three in the morning and . . . always a safe street to come home to,” Jacobs wrote in Life and Death
And she is right. I know I can leave my bike unlocked outside a busy bar if I'm stopping in for only a couple. Try that trick on any street between 5th and 6th Ave and you'll be walking home.
Bars are a place for artists to meet. They are places for aspiring young professionals to escape to. They can be an oasis in a desert of small one-bedroom apartments. Bars can be a place to meet your secret lover, to fall in love or a place to watch the game. A place to be anonymous or drunkenly unavoidable. I don't have to sit here and describe to you the irreplaceable functions that bars serve in modern society... And if I did, I wouldn't bother.
As for kids in bars I 100% support the idea so long as the clock on the wall says... 9pm or before
Children can and do socialize in bars. Children can learn how to become mature and admirable adults in bars... even if these lessons are in the form of learning what not to do and how not to act. It is the responsible parents' role to point out right and wrong... and yes, these lessons can start as early as 18-24 months. -
Old Time Brooklyn wrote: Do you guys constantly talk about ass-to-mouth and anal creampies when you're in a bar?
Testify.
I'm always amazed in these threads at how the childless are so insanely vulgar that kids cannot be within earshot. It's hilarious actually. And mostly naive. -
way too late to be of use but next time take them to colson's and sit outside. you can have a beer or wine and get the kid a cookie to keep him quiet.
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I'm going to second (or possibly third) Bar Toto. I recently sat in the outdoor area and just had a couple of beers (no food) while I got some work done, and they seemed fine with that.
As far as the kids in bars thing goes, I'm not a parent, nor do I ever intend to be one, so I can't at all opine on what is or isn't appropriate.
I'll say this though, I treat kids in bars/restaurants the same way I treat every other human being. 9 yrs old or 29 yrs old, If they're annoying and disruptive, I just leave and go to one of the other 20 eating/drinking establishments within 5 blocks.
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