Monday, September 24, 2012
How To Bring Your Kid To a Bar and Not Be A Jerk About It
Posted by Virginia K. Smith on Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News
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.
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Virginia K. Smith
Virginia K. Smith is the Assistant Editor at The L Magazine and a Bushwick resident. Her profile picture was taken at Summerscreen, because she is a real team player.
