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Très, très bien!Ĥ25 Harvard Ave Before we had a fancy self-cleaning loo down near Seattle Central, there was a kinder, gentler free restroom just off Broadway. Très bien!Ĥ29 15th Ave E All the language treats of the 5 Spot restrooms (see above) on Capitol Hill! Time your visits to Coastal Kitchen correctly and spend a lot of time in their can. While you relax and empty your bladder, the mellifluous voice of some foreign national will fill your head with all sorts of useful words and phrases. The folks at the 5 Spot understand this, and so they've put the incessantly looping tape of language instruction right where it will benefit you the most: the potty. well, that's up to them.ġ502 Queen Anne Ave N The easiest way to learn a foreign tongue is to stop concentrating so damn hard and let your infant brain take the rudder for a while.
And though the City Centre's watchful eye certainly doesn't extend to the stalls (one hopes), its presence still offers our city's exhibitionists a place to.
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Plus, a code is required to enter!ġ420 Fifth Ave As you enter, there it is, on the door: You are under surveillance. Very few people have actually seen the mysterious space (tourists aren't allowed), but city council member and architect Peter Steinbrueck got a tour in the late '90s when there was talk of doing the repairs, and reports, "I remember a lot of urine stink and broken bottles."ġ333 Fifth Ave The best soap in the city-fluffy, foamy, and not too smelly. Located directly below the Pergola, the Titanic-era restroom was closed in the mid-'50s and reportedly needs half a million dollars in restorations. The Mysterious Restroom Below Pioneer SquareĪccording to a former tour guide at Bill Speidel's Underground Tour (608 First Ave), the secret restroom built in 1916 below Pioneer Square was a large marble-floored affair with polished white tiling on the walls. Shangri-la for germaphobes, posh for the rest of us. The urinals, the pots, the sinks, the driers-all merely require a pass of the hand, never a caress. It is, to be sure, a wonderful vista to pee before.Ģ100 Fourth Ave With the foresight and care that only being absurdly wealthy can provide, Paul Allen has created the perfect public restroom: one where you don't have to touch anything. G.927 Ninth Ave How many times have you donned your finest threads for a night of drinking, only to find that when you dash off to pee, your surroundings are stale or, worse, uninspiring? Far too many? Then make sure to drink at Vito's-at least if you're a man-for not only is their restroom posh (if a tad soiled), but it contains Seattle's most splendid tile mural: a scantily clad, nubile woman in deep repose. What you’re drinking: The Lemon Ice cocktail, which is inspired by sweet slush served at Johnnie’s Beef in suburban Elmwood Park.
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Named after a philosophy of architecture associated with Frank Lloyd Wright, it feels like the stylistic opposite of PDT, with high ceilings and big windows and a cocktail list that is, like Chicago itself, both slap-your-back friendly and shoot-the-moon ambitious. It's a shame if you never got to see it, because the place was a beaut.Ĭonceived by Jim Meehan, who helped codify the speakeasy motif in 2007 with PDT (his saloon-behind-a-phone-booth in New York’s East Village), Prairie School is altogether different: an elegant expression of midwestern pride, from the grain spirits it serves to the way sunlight is, yes, allowed into the room. While this issue of Esquire was in the process of shipping to the printers, we learned that Prairie School was shutting its doors before the end of May.