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erryday i’m shufflin’

I don’t spend alot of time in fancy restaurants. Specially not fancy Italian places. I don’t know about you, but I feel silly paying for noodles boiled in water and tossed in tomatoes. Maybe I am cheap, or maybe I have the palate of a 5 year old, but I like my wine cheap and my pasta from Trader Joe’s. Recently, maybe because I’m getting old, I’ve found that sometimes its nice to eat at places where you don’t have to order at a counter and that there’s more to Italian food than spaghetti and meat sauce. I love floppy fluorescent orange pizza, but there’s so much more to love. There’s also Battuta di pollo alla piastra and Cotoletta alla Milanese. Plus you can order in stupidly bad Italian and the waiters cant laugh at you. The restaurant is small but there’s a nice garden area out back. Bathrooms are single stall rooms to the left of the bar counter. I’ve never been when its very busy so its always been a nice and quick 4 flushes type of experience. Kudos on the scent diffuser and tile work. Baci & Abbracci is a place you can take your parents to, and that, to me, is a sign of fo real classiness. Oh and they give you free bread. 

What kind of a name is Haab for a Mexican restaurant? I know Spanish and that doesn’t mean anything in Spanish. Whatever. It doesn’t matter. The food is really good. I have a thing for Mexican food and Haab has been there for me many times. I have to point out that complimenting the food does not mean Im a fan of the service. It varies from really perky, borderline too nice waitress to waitress who doesnt know what pinto beans are. So you know what normal people do, instead of tearing the place a new one on Yelp? Just get take out, you dingdong! That’s what I do. But this time I ventured in and got lucky with not just a great waitress, but also bathroom pics. Its off to the side in a narrow hallway, only one room, but decent enough for 3 flushes. Its a Mexican place. Cut the bathroom some slack.

I am posting this after over a year of actually being here. But I remember pretty clearly that it was a really nice place, probably because my brain had one less year of tarter build up and things absorbed better. Swiss cheese brain aside, the place has floor to ceiling glass doors that were open at the time. A couple of guys were roasting a whole pig a big drum kettle on the sidewalk, which was quite a sight. The food was great. See the pics of the Croque Monsieur and Berliner Currywurst after the jump. The bar goes along the main wall, leading down to the bathroom. Your spirit guide to the toilet is a menacing looking wooden dude. Theres a couple of stalls in there and pretty large. I give it 4flushes.

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gpoydw (gratuitous picture of your dog wednesday)

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This is Abe. He is half Boston-half Chihuahua and 7 months old. He is waiting for his stuffed zebra toy, which has since been gutted (took about 5 minutes).

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On my last trip home, after being stranded in Florida for way too long due to the Blizzard of 2010, I was craving a taste of NYC, and a dose of buttery beef patties was the only thing that was going to cheer me up. Lucky for me a Shake Shack recently opened up on Lincoln Rd, within walking distance of my favorite bar, the Abbey. I am a former Shake Shack skeptic, now a Shake Shack fanatic, spreading the gospel across the east coast. The bathrooms here are 2 flushes worthy but the burgers should inspire a trip to check out the rest of the Shake Shacks in NYC.

Yea, this is an aspiring hipster burger place in the middle of an aspiring hipster neighborhood. And who would trek out to Prospect Heights to eat anything, let alone a burger, amirite? So what if it has an adjoining bar, Franklin Park, in the back room? And a skee ball machine. And a photobooth. And an outdoor area. Its no Dumont Burger or Five Leaves. Not yet anyways. So for now, haters gonna hate and its too hood out here. But I digress. I’m not here to talk hipster brunch turf wars. I’m here to talk toilets. The toilet is right between the restaurant and the bar. There are two or three single stalls. I was lucky and landed the fat kid stall, equipped with tons of toilet paper and room for a photoshoot. 4 flushes. 

Probably the most quiet bathroom in New York City, the bathroom on the third floor of the main library will transport you to new lands without ever leaving your stall. Plenty of reading material. Not many patrons. Pipes that go up to heaven. Marble everywhere. I give it 5 flushes.

Yea. This is the library from Ghostbusters. No, you’re not encouraged to reenact scenes from the movie. 

Only place in Miami I can endorse. Sorry. I’m not taking that back. 

Don’t fucking order a Tucher. They have an IPA, a stout, a double and a quadruple.

Bathrooms are to the back. I’m not sure what the boy’s room looks like (as if I’d admit that here) but the girl’s room has little heart shaped tiles in the one single stall. I’d give anything this place has to do with 5 flushes. 

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Its kinda cold up there now, but The High Line is frickin gorgeous. It was built for use by freight trains back when trains ran at street level.[boring history lesson omitted] You can imagine how much of a bad and dangerous idea that was. No one had used it in a while so they made it into a rad park. Theres a sundeck with lounge chairs you can roll by using the old train tracks. Theres several public art exhibits. And theres a few local vendors who are given temporary permits, selling things like cider and donuts now and People’s Pops in summer. The greenery is kinda funky and so ugly its pretty again. You know what I mean. Its like a post-Apocalyptic walk through a meadow. The bathroom is better than what I expected from a “park”. Only two stalls, and a line, but clean. I gave it 4 flushes just cos it opens a whole 3 hours after the park does. And I just didn’t feel like it deserved a perfect score. I’m getting picky in my old age. 

pro tip: sometimes I take the pic while it flushes, to cover the sound of the camera shutter as to not freak the ladies out

smokin in the boys room, gpoyw

Basement level, velvet wallpaper, dark red. Its a nice looking lounge. Lots of couches and poufy chairs. Its a good place for some pre or post dinner drinks. We went to celebrate my friend Geraldine’s birthday. The cocktails will inevitably be called girly, but people are stupid. They are good. And if you go for happy hour, they’re half priced. The bathroom is beyond cramped and really dark. Kind of hard to maneuver in. Its got 2 stalls, with saloon style doors. I give it 3 flushes.

Happy Birthday Geraldine!

gpoyw, gratuitous crazy eye

The Creek & The Cave is a performance space slash bar slash restaurant in Long Island City. Yes, there are cool things to do in Queens. I came out here to watch Donald Glover, the dude from Community, do his rap thing. It was an interesting show and he definitely packed the place. When you come in theres a performance space to the left, or you can head to the right into the restaurant area, or you can head downstairs to the bar area or back patio. If youre in the area, the food is good and the cover for shows is like $5 most times. But then again, if youre in the area looking for a drink, youd be better off going to Dutch Kills. The bathroom here is unisex and single stall. Double fail. But its pretty big and not too busy. Its all the way downstairs and to the left. I give it 3 flushes.

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Few more pics after the jump 

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The last weekend in July a group of my girlfriends and I headed over to Long Island City to check out P.S. 1, a space used by MoMA to display very experimental art and have events. We went to check out a DJ set by the guys in Animal Collective. I guess the place was used as a school and so the bathrooms are old school bathrooms. They are unisex, the only thing dividing the urinal from the sink is a little partition. I think the sinks are pretty sweet but other than that nothing special. My one complaint was the super long line, despite there being at least 4 bathrooms (1 on each floor). But it was sorta clean considering the amount of people. I give it 3 flushes. (check out a few pics of the art, after the jump below)

view from bathroom window

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To see some gross-ish art and things click below

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