Gothamist: When Bad Bathrooms Happen to Good Restaurants

editor

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:55:50 -0500

"Recently refurbished" Jackson Diner? I've been living there over 3 years. Looks the same as the day I went in. (And I don't use the bathrooms.) Time to re-visit, Gothamist.

Rose

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:04:22 -0500

Martini's has a nice women's room.

Kojak

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:40:11 -0500

Urine is sterile (Unless you have the clap or it stayed in a puddle stagnant for a while). Pee on your hands to your heart's content.

Bob

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:25:01 -0500

Anyone buy the arguement that as long as you aren't peeing on your hands washing is not needed? If not, then I wash my hands.

smitty

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:17:46 -0500

men rarely wash their hands anyway. we're all screwed.

Velleity

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:49:10 -0500

As Anthony Bourdain wrote in "Kitchen Confidential," if the restroom isn't clean, the kitchen probably isn't either, because restrooms are much, much easier to clean than kitchens.

Dirk

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:45:42 -0500

KeithS, judging from just my informal observations, I would say half the men I see in public restrooms don't wash their hands. But a waiter? C'mon that's gross.

belgian

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:31:32 -0500

Maybe the Belgian place was trying to be authentic by having bad bathrooms?

Kojak

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:30:08 -0500

I've been to those Roxy bathrooms and I feel your pain MT. If your going to dance all night, I guess its best to have that fresh clear feeling right? Can't get must worse then Club bathrooms. No one can pee straight and its all over the walls and floor. NOTE to Coke doers: Please completely flush your baggies when your finished please.

KeithS

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:22:23 -0500

Just remembered -- Bonita in Williamsburg is another place I will not be returning to, after watching a scruffy hipster waiter relieve himself and then not wash up before leaving the loo.

KeithS

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:17:30 -0500

Glad to see Otto (a place I otherwise adore just like everyone else) getting called out for the skeezy bathrooms.

tien

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:01:39 -0500

i also do the same as haywood. the problem is that sometimes places don't have paper towels, but the hand dryers. those suck.

MT

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:49:51 -0500

I understand. Sometimes you get that not so fresh feeling at inopportune moments and you just have to deal with it. I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

Haywood

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:47:55 -0500

Just think the kitchen crew probably use the germ ridden, festering stink hole bathrooms too. Yum. What good does washing your hand do when you touch the filthy faucet knobs and door handles on the way out. I personally use a papertowel buffer. But I have seen kitchen crew in the bathroom with a less than stellar aproach to hygene. (don't eat in those places anymore) Heck I was at Joe's pizza before it closed the corner location. The guy making a pie sneezed in his hand and went right back to working the dough. I called him out on it and he denied sneezing in his hand. I am like i just saw you, and a few customers chimed in thay noticed too. Fucking filthy bastards.... They always seem to work in resturants.

toyochin

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:30:26 -0500

MT, Sorry about that. Won't happen again, I promise.

MT

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:25:57 -0500

I have the ultimate gross NYC bathroom story. Granted it was at Roxy and not a restaurant. I was forced to use the facilities and when I went in looked down and actually saw a used enema on the floor. Needless to say, I fled and my phobia of public restrooms is now officially justified.

Jen

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:11:31 -0500

Vittles, you're so on the money with this. Especially when you're headed to the bathroom right after your order - ugh, what a terrible tone to set for the rest of the evening. You go to a dive, you except the bathroom to be gross, but at nice restaurants, when the sinks are dripping and the paper towels are overflowing and things are a mess, it becomes so much more disorienting. Here's a link to a previous post on some hot NYC bathrooms.

BrianVan

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:10:35 -0500

Any trendy restaurant bathroom that aspires to be groundbreaking and stylish MUST have the three seashells. It's the new black. //dumb joke