Bann Thai
Bann Thai
6461 Brockton Ave.
Riverside, CA
We like Thai food. We heard good things about Bann Thai, so we tried it out. After the magic of some coconut curry, I had to go to the bathroom. It’s one of those ones that looks like it’s in another building. Where the rest of the restaurant had pleasant, warmly-lit, wooden floors, the restroom had cold rust-coloured tiles and harsh lighting. This isn’t really a problem because it’s not like I’m settling in for the night. Maybe it’s a good idea to promote an uncomfortable atmosphere in a restroom. There’s nothing worse than needing to go to the restroom and knowing that someone else is in there. Your head is filled with garish scenarios about what could possibly be keeping them that long.
However, I did have a problem with the window, which was plain glass. Now, I have certain minimum criteria when it comes to restrooms: a lock on the door; some paper; and either no window, or a window that is so heavily frosted that it has no function. This was just plain glass. I looked out, and saw sparse traffic idling along, past some palm trees, with the red strip of twilight in the background. Granted, the window was placed such that someone would have to make a real effort to see anything I was doing. Even as a remote possiblity, it made me feel uneasy: the one place I don’t want to feel uneasy is a restroom.
