pub bans children after 7pm

A lot of our bigger ones have play areas for little children. We make sure we don’t sit near them ! You go out to relax, not to have screaming and yelling . Different during the day,. I have to say most seem reasonably well behaved in our experience.

It sounds as if the pub was more like a creche in the evenings, with babies and toddler, prams and pushchairs!
So yes, I do agree that tiny tots should be at home in bed in the evenings but older children, out for a meal with family? As long as they're well-behaved, I see no reason why not.

Hipsters in Leyton? How times change🤭

Oreo

Maybe ( likely) that the pub mentioned in Leyton is rough, so probably better not to have children there at all.
For anywhere else…. It would be a ridiculous ban.

Having looked at it’s website and publicity it is being marketed as trendy with bespoke pizza kitchen.

More likely to be looking for hipstet type clientele.

Maybe ( likely) that the pub mentioned in Leyton is rough, so probably better not to have children there at all.
For anywhere else…. It would be a ridiculous ban.

7pm to eat and be out en famile is too early for most people.

So much for family time 🤷‍♀️

lemsip

have a family meal with your children before 7pm then. can't see the problem

Talk about a nanny state!
A curfew now?
Any other restrictions you'd like to impose?
No laughing?
No enjoying yourself ?
No family time together?
Up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire by 8.30?
Only cocoa and biscuits?

Frogs

I think Wetherspoons have got it right by allowing children in their pubs until 9pm. I can’t remember our kids ever being tucked up at 7pm.

When they were young very few pubs allowed children in and if they did it was in a specially allocated separate room and we had to travel miles to find these pubs.
I’m glad we are now able to take our grandchildren in to pubs and have family time/meals together. I’ve rarely if ever seen children running riot/being ignored by their parents or anybody drunk for that matter but then we’ve usually left by 9pm ourselves.

Whe we are abroad, if we are in a locals restaurant, there is quite often a big party celebrating something & the party includes children & haven't really got going until 9 pm.
I don't like the idea of small children in "drinking" pubs or of children being in pubs in the evening routinely - but I think a ban is sad, because family celebrations are often at restaurants these days & children should be included.
We always had an early bedtime, strictly enforced, but "staying up late" on saturdays & for parties was exciting & better for us, I'm sure, than being left at home with a babysitter.

lemsip

have a family meal with your children before 7pm then. can't see the problem

No.

Not always possible.

Why?
Why should families not go out to eat together?

Not all pubs are full of hard drinkers. Families would avoid those anyway.
Pubs sell food because people are not buying so much drink because, in many case, they are driving.

have a family meal with your children before 7pm then. can't see the problem

Daisycuddles

Why was it necessary to add a comment about dogs. What relevance is that to banning children?

Or drunk adults?

Why was it necessary to add a comment about dogs. What relevance is that to banning children?

AuntieE

IMO all minors should be banned from entering pubs at any time of day. although I can see there might be an argument for allowing those of 16 and over in.

Certainly, no child should be in the company of drunk adults, and while we cannot legistrate about what adults do in their homes, we can and should have laws that forbid children being in places where adults drink or smoke, whether these are pubs, restaurants or anywhere else.

“And call off Christmas! “

Quote kircubbin2000 Thu 27-Nov-25 19:25:52
Plenty of cafes and restaurants instead
Add comment | Report | Private message | Quote polly123 Thu 27-Nov-25 16:05:03
Excellent idea. No dogs either except for assistance dogs

Perish the thought of anybody actually enjoying themselves or getting in the way of the hard drinkers

A lot of pubs now are really restaurants with a bar aren’t they?
So children may be with parents for a special meal out, I wouldn’t want that to be stopped.
Bars in cities are another matter.

I think Wetherspoons have got it right by allowing children in their pubs until 9pm. I can’t remember our kids ever being tucked up at 7pm.

When they were young very few pubs allowed children in and if they did it was in a specially allocated separate room and we had to travel miles to find these pubs.
I’m glad we are now able to take our grandchildren in to pubs and have family time/meals together. I’ve rarely if ever seen children running riot/being ignored by their parents or anybody drunk for that matter but then we’ve usually left by 9pm ourselves.

theworriedwell 👍🏻

Well posted theworriedwell

I live in a seaside town, most pubs do food and there are always children around when I'm having a meal. I don't think there's any sort of ban and I don't see children running round, I'm always impressed with how well behaved they are.

Not all parents are negligent, not all children are unruly.

Punishing all due to a few is ridiculous.

kircubbin2000

Plenty of cafes and restaurants instead.

Yes!

Leave the pubs to families.

Plenty of cafes and restaurants instead.

Excellent idea. No dogs either except for assistance dogs.

Certainly, no child should be in the company of drunk adults

We don't tend to get drunk.
The kinds of pubs we go to aren't usually full of drunks either.

As I said, there's pubs and there's pubs.