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God NO.
Bars and, by extension there hipper brethen, clubs are the last refuge from the insufferable snot covered Aliens known as children in this country.
Nowhere else is safe regardless of the price outside of the Alcohol Dens. You can spend $500 on a two person meal and still have to listening to the nonsensical screams of the six month old Mussolini next to you. A $15 movie ticket and an eleven o'clock showtime is no garantee that a married couple doesn't sit next to you for a romantic evening with their Vagina Fruit shoved between them, babbling and yelling from roll to cut.
No, no, no, no. Please. Alcohol abuse among friends in public places in one of the few activities that hasn't been pacified and neutered by our sick societal quest to Cannonize the Breeding Class.