Here’s a story of about social media and the perennially vexing matter of noisy kids in restaurants.

On the most recent Troy Night Out, May 27, a group of a dozen parents and six kids stopped in before 5 p.m. at The Shop, a bar specializing in cocktails, craft beer and global cuisine. With its hardware-store theme and hipster feel, The Shop is not among the spots I’d think to bring children younger than 10, but I generally believe that, at least early in the evening, most places that serve food should — and do — accommodate families.

What happened during their stay is disputed. At 6:20 p.m., Rich Azzopardi, one of the members of the group, tweeted:

About an hour later, Azzopardi added in another tweet, “it was classless.”

The tweets had extra weight because they were coming from someone who is senior deputy communications director and spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo. While they were about his private life, the tweets were part of Azzopardi’s feed to more than 2,100 followers, many in the media, which is heavy with news and commentary about state politics.

The Shop’s version of events is markedly different. According to a long account sent to me by owners Kevin Blodgett and Nada Rifai, front-of-house manager Jared Barton and chef Rich Matthews, several of the kids, whom they estimate ranged in age from approximately 4 to 7, were yelling, running around, lying on the floor, blowing out candles at other customers’ tables and one even asked a bartender for a whiskey sour. Servers carrying cast-iron skillets hot from the oven had to step over the the children, the accounts says, and one parent asked a staffer to “keep any eye on the kids.” When a Shop representative requested that the youngsters be supervised, the response was a “confrontational attitude from one mother who said, ‘So, you’re seriously kicking us out?’”

Azzopardi, who does not have kids and was there with his wife and a group of her friends, told me over the weekend, “The kids were loud and animated, but I saw nothing like” The Shop’s characterization. He added:

Hey, everyone has the right to run their business as they see fit, just as customers have the right to have opinions about it. I personally thought it was distasteful to kick 12 paying customers out of an otherwise empty place, before 6 p.m., during a family friendly event (it was Troy night out.) I have nothing but nice things to say about the Troy Kitchen, which was more than accommodating.

The Shop stands by its account, which ends: