Home for the Holidays

Near Pescadero

Frijtz

Julian Patrick and Ryan Patrick escorted The Mommy into "Town" today for a little excursion. Here we enjoyed a fabulous lunch at Fritz on Valencia. They have an interesting little device of torture there, better known as "The Bathroom". I'm sure that being in the Mission, they needed to create a way for their one toilet to be conveniently available to all guests, while being a hideous deterrent to anyone wishing to hang out and apply makeup, shoot up some smack or say, change a diaper. In blaring white tile (and cool mosaics) under fantastically bright light you can enjoy an evacuation while being berated by deafeningly loud feedback noise with an undertone of voices chattering away in French. A truly bizarre and annoying experience to say the least, I have to admit that it is quite clever. They have a way with restrooms, those Fritz folks. Anyone remember the black bathroom at the old Hayes Valley site, that had glowing stencils under the blacklight? Tres cool.