Comments on: PoP Preview – Biergarten Haus

By: anon

anon — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:38:04 +0000

I won’t bring the kids if you leave your stupid dogs at home. Deal?

By: Nice

Nice — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:43:28 +0000

EXACTLY THIS. Thanks for putting my sentiments into words.

“It’s funny that people think the desire to drink in a child-free environment has something to do with conservative attitudes about drinking, or some sort of societal holdover from the teetotaler movement. IT ISN’T. YOUR KIDS ARE ANNOYING AND WE WANT TO DRINK IN PEACE.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:15:06 +0000

It’s funny that people think the desire to drink in a child-free environment has something to do with conservative attitudes about drinking, or some sort of societal holdover from the teetotaler movement. IT ISN’T. YOUR KIDS ARE ANNOYING AND WE WANT TO DRINK IN PEACE.

By: zetland

zetland — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:05:15 +0000

Rule of thumb: Kids are cool at bars only until 8:00 pm and only if there’s a substantial enough menu to qualify as a restaurant. Or if the bar is on my street on the way back from the playground.

By: cue the arguments

cue the arguments — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:02:47 +0000

i’ll just go ahead and cover all the discussion topics in one post so we can move on:

1) i hope it can fit my stroller
2) kids shouldn’t be at bars
3) i hope it has wifi
4) i can’t believe a cheeseburger costs 12 dollars
5) i hope it’s dog friendly
6) H st is the ghetto, a guy pooped there on google street view
7) streetcar streetcar streetcar
8) this bar is terrible if they don’t serve my obscure beer
9) this bar is racist

what did i miss?

By: Fritz

Fritz — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:43:40 +0000

Being a Cincinnati Kraut I have fond memories of being taken along with the relatives to a good German biergarten or two as a kid. I had my root beer and they had their steins of the real thing. No big deal. I learned to drink but not get drunk. Getting obviously drunk means ridicule for not being able to control yourself.

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:19:06 +0000

Seems to me like this isn’t a place that “just happens to serve alcohol” but a place where the FOCUS is on the alcohol. So I don’t know why you’d bring your kid to that kind of venue … are your kids going to get a nutritional meal or enjoy that environment? If it’s just that you want to socialize with your friends and enjoy a few brews, there’s no reason you can’t do that just because you have kids, but: hire a babysitter!

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:52:04 +0000

The point is simply that you’re exposing your kid(s) to an atmosphere where the whole point is to consume lots of alcohol and act accordingly.

If you’re fine with that and accept the potential consequences then I don’t think anyone cares.

By: t. tota

t. tota — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:20:21 +0000

so, should all places that serve alcohol ban kids?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:13:48 +0000

Gosh dern these H St folk. They done did it again, I sweer. Them folks is just partyin’ up a storm down them thare. Between the coffee, the pie, the bratwurst, the mussels, and the deli food, I sweer I’m just gonna cry.