I am not surprised by this - I was with my (childless) friend and my 7 month old when we were relegated to the back of the cafe, my childless friend was somewhat peeved and so we brought it up with the manager who instead of saying "I'm so sorry - fire regs, not my fault" lectured us for 15 minutes on quite how special her cafe was, did we know there were a lot of expensive things in the cafe (you run a cafe lady, a teacup will get broken soon) - and did I know that candlewax had been splilt on her extremely expensive silk chairs (hardly likely to be a 7 month old baby partying in the small hours...) We left and I for one shant go there again. Hooray cheer the anti-buggy brigade but a shame for a mum who just wanted to go somewhere a bit special as a treat in a very tiring day and given we make up 90% of the day time traffic in East Dulwich, not exactly good business sense. And as for the lady who thinks children should be seen and not heard - well, never underestimate human resentment.