OFFICIAL FIPS ENDORSEMENT: THE DOUBLE WINDSOR

photo: Sam Horine

ATTN BALLERS: I'd like to suggest that you stop whatever you are doing right now (put down your bong; step away from the internet porn; and just say no to your new Craigslist missed connection "friend"...at least for a few mins) and head straight on over to Double Windsor!

We'd like to suggest that you go patronize the Double Windsor...HARD.

Buy drinks! Buy food! (do they even sell food!? Yes! After 5pm! Who cares?...just buy it!). Scrub graffiti off their bathroom stalls! SHOW RESPECT TO DOUBLE WINDSOR. DOUBLE WINDSOR IS OUR HERO!

Here's why. Behold this post from Park Slope Parents:

"There is an attractive and spacious pub near to where I live that is relatively new and has a sign on the door that reads "no children after 5pm." I never thought much of it, as I knew that at the time they were only serving alcohol.
 
Today I saw another (new) sign that said "now serving food after 5pm." I decided to pop in and ask if the ban on kids after 5 was still in place now that food was involved, explaining that we're always looking for a good place for a burger, salad, etc. in our neck of the woods where we could take the children. The man's reply was "this place will remain child free after 5. It is a place for people to come to escape children." I was taken aback and asked "is that legal?" He then said "It doesn't matter. We make our own rules here." So I repeated back what I understood, which is that kids were allowed in BEFORE 5, while food was not being served. He nodded in agreement.

So, does anyone know if this practice is legal? Obviously kids can't order a pint, but what about a burger? No ill intent -- I'm only asking out of morbid curiousity. And no, I don't plan on going there again. There are many other places where my business would be welcome."

Ok, so I know what you're thinking: please don't let this be another BREEDER v. BALLER babies in bar bullshit back and forth. And I hear you! But wait, look at this insanely awesome BREEDER response that came soon after:

"Why be offended by this bar/pub's policy? Like you say, there are  plenty of places to go for food with your child/ren. Really, aren't  there places, even in Park Slope, where people are entitled to go after work to relax without having to deal with crying/fussing babies nearby? Why is that offensive to parents?

Let's face it, folks, there is a (short) period in our lives as parents when it may not be possible to go out to every place we wish we could patronize.

Even though I'm not much of a bar-hopper myself, I am annoyed when young kids are in the rare movie that I can get out to see. I'm there (in part) for a break from my kids - why would I want to listen to someone else's crying or whining for more goldfish crackers? Likewise, i've been slightly annoyed the several recent times that I've gone out with my husband for a nice, romantic, Saturday-night date at grown-up restaurants and had to work around someone's stroller at the next table, or had to listen to them make kissy-baby
noises to their newly-awakened infant.

I managed to do plenty when my kids were babies - I was taking an evening class when my oldest was just a few weeks old - but I didn't expect to take my babies every single place I went. There were places and parties I couldn't attend because it wasn't appropriate to bring young children.

Really, this sense of entitlement about going anywhere and everywhere with babies, and the lack of consideration for the people around you seems like something out of Amy Sohn's "Prospect Park West."

Anyway, I digress. The point is: we've been able to uncover that this fabulous, majestic, "no kids after 5pm" bar that the original miffed Park Slope parent speaks of is none other than The Double Windsor! YAY DOUBLE WINDSOR!

And so, we'd like to offer up our first official unsolicited (potentially unwanted) FIPS bar endorsement!

Look, who the fuck knows if this shit is even true. And if it IS true, who the fuck knows if after Curbed, Gothamist, Brownstoner and the City Room blog pick it up, the Double Windsor won't backtrack, pull a Union Hall, and crash under the crippling neighborhood BREEDER pressure. But, at least for now, our cups runneth over with Double Windsor love. So go buy lots of shit there.

And if you don't believe me, here's a thread from Brooklynian entitled: "Ongoing Double Windsor Awesomeness."

Double Windsor
210 PPW (btwn Bartel Pritchard Square & 16th Street)
(347) 725-3479