Disgusting restrooms in restaurants

[jim]

Ok, my son thinks it was something with an 8 in it.

I guess the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

[lukethedrifter]

feisty bulldog?

show me's?

larry rice's?

[jim]

feisty bulldog?

show me's?

larry rice's?

On the east side of 2nd street at the Landing. Was there about 15 minutes before Rams kickoff. Waitresses wearing Rams jerseys except one wearing a Pujols jersey. They served beer, but I got a Dr. Pepper because they recently pulled Coke for Pepsi. We had hamburgers. The restaurant might have had the letter D or the number 8 in it.

You guys grew up in St. Louis, right? How much more do I have to narrow it down for you?

[Popeye_Card]

You guys grew up in St. Louis, right? How much more do I have to narrow it down for you?

Understand that the natives rarely visit the Landing. I only venture down there to eat mashed potato balls at Morgan Street.

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[maddash]

You guys grew up in St. Louis, right? How much more do I have to narrow it down for you?

Understand that the natives rarely visit the Landing. I only venture down there to eat mashed potato balls at Morgan Street.

--P--

Morgan Street could be the restaurant jim is talking about. I once had a moldy bun served to me there.

[cardinalkarp]

You guys grew up in St. Louis, right? How much more do I have to narrow it down for you?

Understand that the natives rarely visit the Landing. I only venture down there to eat mashed potato balls at Morgan Street.

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Morgan Street could be the restaurant jim is talking about. I once had a moldy bun served to me there.

Actually Morgan Street has some pretty good food normally. Yours might have been a rare case. I've eaten a few meals there and they've always been very good.

[StatmanCrothers]

Not the usual type of disgusting, a very clean restroom, but I was in a restaurant restroom (I first typed 'restroom restaurant' which is not somewhere I would eat, although I'm wondering when the first restroom Starbucks will appear)

where was I?

Okay, i'm in a nice clean restroom, I walk up to the urinal, and above the urinal you are looking right out over the bar, I was just sitting at the bar and from that side it was a mirror, but from the bathroom side its a see-through glass, like the police interview room type of a deal. It was a very weird feeling taking a leak and looking at the people in the bar. Kind of a reverse voyeurism.

I'm trying to remember where it was. I'll ask my wife, I'm sure I mentioned it to her at the time. I'm thinking it was an Italian restaurant/bar, maybe in Elk Grove Village? Buffalo Grove? Lefty Grove's Groovy Gravy Bowl?

[lukethedrifter]

okay. i am fairly certain that jim ate at larry rice's.

[JL21]

okay. i am fairly certain that jim ate at larry rice's.

Is "Larry Rice's" what I think "Larry Rice's" is?

Because if it is.... that's pretty garsh-darned funny.

[StatmanCrothers]

At Sudsy Malone's laundromat/bar in Cincinnati, which was the same type of bar as let's say The Double Door or The Empty Bottle in Chicago, booking a combination of local and national touring acts that were popular enough to play in another city but wouldn't totally swamp a bar (Indie rock bands, basically)

the bathroom was like a prison bathroom. There WAS a stall, but no door, and usually no t.p. and lucky if there was a seat on the bowl. Good luck if you had to take an emergency crap.

The whole Short Vine area has gone to hell there in Cincy I guess. It used to be the uber-hip place to hang out, right near the college, very underground-indie atmosphere. The racial tension was getting bad in the early nineties, a reflection of bad race relations (police-related, no surprise) in Cincinnati in general, not because of the people who hung out in that neighborhood... but I guess its gotten so bad in the years since that its no longer a place to hang out safely. Some of the iconic shops and bars have either closed or moved.

Anybody here from Cincy? Can you give a better update? Am I wrong?