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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
THE LADIES ROOM AT NAN: How do you make that water flow?
Photo: Jean Shiffrin/AJC
First, a big congrats to the Atlanta semifinalists for James Beard Awards
I think there should be nominations for bathrooms in restaurants. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood in front of a sink in the ladies’ room and wondered how the heck to turn the water on. All the new-wave grooviness of motion sensors has me playing hop scotch in front of the sink.
I wave my arms, nothing happens. I wave my feet, nothing happens. I grasp handles in all directions. Nothing happens. I hop three times backwards and make incantations. Nothing happens. Do you know how embarrassing it is to have to ask a server how to turn the water on?
This has happened so many times I can’t count: at the old Joel at the new Serpas. At JCT Kitchen. At Craft.
Have you ever needed instructions for the hand sink in a restaurant bathroom?
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By FoodieBuddha
February 13, 2009 5:32 PM | Link to this
Okay dote on them a bit (aka… like 10 minutes ago on my blog) ….but I did the sinks at La Pietra. Serpas did make me think… hey..why don’t they add instructions! :-)
By FoodieBuddha
February 13, 2009 5:35 PM | Link to this
Err… meant to say … I LIKE the sinks at La Pietra
By Baxter
February 17, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this
Serpas has to take the cake! The sink isn’t even in the bathroom which left me standing around in the men’s room feeling a bit creepy…once I finally stepped out and realized it was in-between the two restrooms, figuring out how to turn the water on was a puzzle, but once I figured it all out, it did make me smile on my way back to the table…and kinda made me wish I could sit outside the bathroom to watch the other puzzled diners when the light-bulb finally turned on.