"Hilarious" is not quite the word I'd've picked. "Stupid", "insulting", and "low-class" are more like it.

A fondue restaurant in Montmartre, Paris has been doing this for years. It's pretty funny.

Hilarious...sure.

Ha...ha?

And there are people dumb enough that want to pay for this? Seriously.

I think my beer would get warm before I could suck it all down ):

This is beyond stupid. It ranks up there with that trend a while back where you had dinner dates in total darkness, and the waiters wore night vision goggles throughout the service.

People actually pay money for that?

@jasonnellis: Yep, the NYC owner said he set it up as an homage to the Parisian Le Refuge des Fondus.

I suppose if your clientele are a bunch of spoiled, pampered babies....

Dr. Cox drinks whiskey out of baby bottles... got nuthin

Eh, no thanks. I guess oral fixations are really in style or something.

I hear there is also a VIP room where you are encouraged to put on a diaper, piss your pants, swallow a matchbox car, and vomit milk on each other. Good times!

@hovy:
Brilliant!

There is a bar in Brooklyn which serve you 40oz of fine malt liquor in a brown paper bag.

As for this fondue place, why don't you just serve wine straight out the bottle ? Keep it real Wine-O like.

@Snakeophelia: I'm pretty sure this is the result of a bet. As in, "I bet you if it were marketed right, I could have all these yuppies drinking wine from baby bottles"

Hillarious, maybe, maybe not. But come on, have to at least laugh a little bit when society walks into a parking meter while checking out the girl in the short skirt.

@techstar25: excellent, sir! You made me spit coffee with that one!

@techstar25: I never needed to be encouraged before. Lame.

I guess it goes hand-in-hand with moving back home after college, right?

For those who aren't classy enough to know how the subtle differences in holding a glass of red or white wine...

There's got to be a pun about whining in this somewhere...

There are clever gimmicks and then there's stupidity. I think the best gimmicks are the one's where it's not entirely certain which side of the line they are on.

Personally I think this one's stupid, but that's only my opinion.

@AshleyKeen: Would you like some cheese to go with that whine?

@pb5000: If you read the comments on the original article some people do indeed see this as "fun" and an homage to the original cafe in Paris. I'm going to go look for a Ringpop now.

@techstar25: Lol, that's fantastic.

I prefer drinking wine out of actual breasts, not baby bottles.

@QADude: You're joking, right? Dining in the dark is fantastic fun.

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@B: Where do YOU live?

@techstar25: ROFLMAO!!! That's a great idea! When do we open?

@Ben Popken: Yeah, that place in Paris is known for it. It's kind of on the list of places every tourist must go in Paris. I doubt it's as cheap as the original place though. The number of bottles was unlimited per diner. Quite a good deal and quite a lot of fun.

I ate at the restaurant they're copying, in 2002 -- a fondue restaurant in Montmartre (Paris) that served wine in baby bottles. Le Refuge des Fondus, it was called. The door handle was shaped like a baby bottle, even.

It was a good deal -- 15 euros for unlimited fondue and unlimited wine. (At the time one euro was about equal to one dollar.) It was kind of a fun gimmick, and a good relaxed, party atmosphere. Just long benches where you sat with everyone else eating there, graffiti everywhere. The place wasn't taking itself seriously. I hope this place isn't taking itself seriously either.

What a story for the grandkids.

"When I met your grandma, I was fresh out of Harvard and she was sucking from a baby bottle. HOTTEST THING I EVER SAW, I tell you what."

Giggidy

@WatchOutNow: There is a bar in Brooklyn which serve you 40oz of fine malt liquor in a brown paper bag.

I guess you have to chug it quick before it soaks through?

I guess someone asked "want me to put a nipple on that for you?" and someone replied yes..

Well, it's a pretty good roofies deterrent at least.

@Snakeophelia: Getting people to pay money for something so stupid because they think it's cool is pretty hilarious to me.

Lighten up folks. Not everyone in the world is old and stodgy like you.

Far be it for people to change the status quo and mix things up a bit. That would be unthinkable! Society would collapse! There would be chaos in the streets if people continue the trend of drinking out of bottles! Everyone panic!!!

White people stealing ideas from black people yet again

three6mafia- Sippin on some Syrup

@techstar25: Yeah, but then you'll have to make nice with Senator David Vitter, that room's VVIP...

Damn, here's a working embedded copy

@jasonnellis: I remember the fondue at Parisian Le Rufuge more than I remember the wine, honestly. I prefere to consume my wine when it is mixed into a pot of melted cheese. I do remember that MTV had the Real World Paris kids film an episode there as well. Yum, cheese in Paris.

@crashedpc: Heaven, apparantly.

Are the bottles BPA free?

@JuneCarter: @jasonnellis:
that place in paris is great. went there in 97 and again in 01. so much fun. i doubt the NYC outpost will capture the same spirit, but here's hoping.

this is so degrading. i would NEVER drink wine out of a baby bottle...the regular bottle maybe...if I were out of spherical glasses (i'm a red-only kind of girl.) I would be so embarrassed to be seen out with anyone who would even do that.

@snowmentality: But didn't the place in France do it to circumvent taxes on wine by the glass?

@lpranal: This is nothing new. The Sunburnt Cow has been serving their drinks in baby bottles for years. It doesn't cost the people drinking any more, its just kind of offbeat.

Creepy.

I want to see them serve champagne like that.

Better out of a baby bottle than a wizzinator.

we did this in like jr. highschool say about 16 years ago. not wine but we drank out of bottles and sucked on pacifiers. it was cool too. ya really i swear.

Bitty!!!!!