Review: The Beehive (541 Tremont St.)

I went to a really cool bar last night called The Beehive in Boston's South End. Instead of reviewing the bar, which has been done, I think I'll review the bathroom.

There is precedent for toilet humor on the NaturalBlog. There were the national bathroom rankings, which were blog fodder last year, and long-time readers could never forget the time I made a spreadsheet to determine whether the toilet seat should be up in your household (3d item). So today I'm going back to the bowl.

I'm writing about the Beehive bathroom because it was so nice. Not nice in the marble counter-and-soft handtowel kind of way, but in the fact that it met or exceeded all my expectations.

Spacious, with three stalls and two urinals. Thoughtful in design, which is to say there was a little divider between the urinals. Clean, meaning the graffiti wasn't too gritty, but the kind of graffiti you could take home to meet your parents.

What really won me over was the hand drying situation. Most places now give you either an air-dryer that's as strong as an airplane engine or one of those magical towel dispensers where you wave your hand in order advance the paper towels.

Naturally I prefer the touchless dispensers, since I'm so clean, but my complaint is always that you don't get a large enough square of paper towel. But not so at the Beehive. You get plenty. I put together this graphic to explain:

So say if you go to the Beehive, don't hold it. Use the bathroom. You won't be disappointed.

The Maker's Mark Manhattan was pretty good, too.