Little Munchkins Playroom

About

Almost everyone who writes about this room is writing about a birthday party, and they all write about the same thing: the two owners working through it. Laying out tables before anyone arrives. Putting up the decorations you brought, emptying bins mid-party, producing the serving tongs and cake stand you forgot. Putting coffee on for the adults. Ten separate hosts describe some version of that. It is enough agreement to treat as the offer rather than as luck.

The layout is why it works: a playroom in the middle, an open area with standing room for cake and singing, tables at the back for food, and a yard with more toys when the weather allows. Parties of forty have fitted without feeling crammed, and more than one host mentions the relief of a space small enough to watch across and big enough to seat everybody. For an ordinary visit the record is thinner. What does recur is cleanliness, with reviewers calling it the cleanest playroom they have found, repeatedly and unprompted. It is pitched at toddlers and preschoolers, though one family celebrated a two-year-old and a four-year-old together and had an eight-year-old happy as well. Street parking is easy, which in this city is worth saying out loud.