Comments on: French Restaurant Found a Tax Loophole by Serving Alcohol in Baby Bottles

By: purduephotog

purduephotog — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:32:16 +0000

I've eaten there. You can write on the walls- patrons are encouraged to do so- and each bottle contains about 500ml of wine. It's cheap, it's good food, and it's a blast.

Did I mention you have to climb over the table to get a seat?

(Photo taken in 2000- they've been doing this for a long while)

By: Marilyn Terrell

Marilyn Terrell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:17 +0000

@Dave: yes, it does remind me of the Theater Nights loophole in Minnesota, and Intelligent Travel covered that story too:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/02/twin-cities-bar.html

More creative ways around unpopular laws.

By: emptyminded

emptyminded — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:45:10 +0000

This is how I used to take Jack Daniels into a theater. No one ever questions a baby bottle. Forget about the fact that I didn't have a baby. I remember taking whiskey to see Predator 2. Believe me, it made the experience totally more enjoyable.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:48:16 +0000

That made me think of the recent trend in Minnesota bars to get around the statewide smoking ban; they hold Theater Nights, where the whole bar is the stage and the patrons are the actors. State law allows actors to smoke if their part calls for it, so that makes it ok, right?

http://www.startribune.com/local/15859722.html

By: medussa

medussa — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:34:38 +0000

I like that first thought, MoonCake. It was the first thing that came to my mind as well...

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:04:29 +0000

too bad it doesn't come out of human nipples.

-and-

let's just hope momma remembers which bottle is hers...