
60 Nevsky Prospekt
St. Petersburg, Russia

From the entrance, go up the stairs. At the top, you'll see the order counter to your left and a small hallway on your right. Head down the hallway -- the toilets will be down there, on your left.
What's it like?


While I had decent meals elsewhere in the city, the food here happened to serve the best variations of these dishes I had while in town. And that includes some high-end sit-down restaurants I visited. The fact that it's very inexpensive and the staff is very friendly to non-Russian-speaking visitors makes it all the more enjoyable.

However, the facilities here are lit with black lights, which in turn makes walking through them feel like you're stepping through a crime scene. Everything turns blue beneath the lights, and all the areas where you'll find dirt, grime or water become highlighted -- it's a little creepy, I must admit. (There are also some crystal specks built into on the checkerboard floor as well, which made it feel like I was walking through a haunted house.) Clearly, the popularity of CSI had pervaded the Russian fast food restaurant market!

Of course, I'm also thinking the blue light might serve a practical purpose as well, helping the staff locate grime here more easily. And it must be doing a good job because these bathrooms were spotless, outside of some spilled water here and there.
Marks out of 10:
8. Clean, comfortable and surprisingly eerie, which is something you don't quite expect from a public restroom in a fast food restaurant. Not exactly what I expect to experience when I enter a public bathroom, but I was so surprised by this I had only praise. Go figure.
Comments to the Management:
Pump in some house music and people will think they're in a dance club. And for Halloween, put skeletons in the stalls.
1 comment:
Hey, I came upon your article searching for teremok, which I love. But your toilet issue reminded me that we actually saw this a couple times in russia and were told (or came to the conclusion) that it was an anti drug measure to prevent people from shooting up in the bathrooms. Don't know if there was any truth to it but the lighting in that teremok was seen elsewhere in Russia.
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