Eatery wants you to have sex in their bathrooms

[melensdad]

Okee dokee now . . .

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February 03, 2010
Amy Pataki

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A hostess shows off a washroom at Mildred's, where sex is encouraged.
RENÉ JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR

Mildred's Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms.

The Valentine's weekend promotion takes uncomfortable but electrifying sex from the close confines of an airplane and transfers it to the unisex stalls of the Hanna Ave. restaurant.

The Liberty Village restaurant proposes its modern bathrooms become one of the "101 places to have sex before you die."

Mildred's has always elicited a certain response. One customer, who didn't want to be named, remembers going to a wedding at the eatery's old location and seeing a copy of the Kama Sutra in the bathroom.
"They invite it," said the customer.

This time, the invitation is explicit. On its website, Mildred's asks: "Have you given any thought to moving beyond the bedroom?

"Check out Mildred's Sexy Bathrooms throughout the weekend of Big Love. You get the picture."

Actually, the picture is clouded by practicalities. Is the restaurant supplying condoms? What about the health risks of body fluids? And who's cleaning up?

"We've always had little trysts in our bathrooms," says chef/co-owner Donna Dooher, pointing to lingering weekday lunches as a popular time. "We're taking it to the next level on Valentine's weekend."

The restaurant's four bathrooms light up outside when occupied. Staff have learned to watch the light flicker twice when two customers enter the same bathroom, usually a few minutes apart.

Toronto Public Health says as long as there's no sex in the kitchen and the restaurant keeps its washrooms clean and sanitized, it's not fussed. "As far as bodily fluids, it's pretty much similar to the other human functions going on in there," says Jim Chan, manager of the food safety program.

Dooher says customers must bring their own condoms but she's hiring a maid to tidy the washrooms that weekend. "She'll be there with her feather duster and cleaning supplies."

At least diners aren't encouraged to use furry handcuffs, part of a $55 "naughty love hamper," while at Mildred's. "Best to savour and enjoy (those) long after you leave the restaurant," the restaurant says.

[Greybeard]

But how's the food?

[Inquartata]

Oh, those "conservative" Canadians...

[Fencergrl]

Fiscally speaking Inq, it's very conservative. Why spend money for a hotel/ motel when the washroom at the restaurant is free?

Besides... no one claimed that Canadians were conservative when it came to their sexual tastes.

[Inquartata]

But I thought that Canadians preferred to do everything in the great out of doors?

[Purple Fencer]

But I thought that Canadians preferred to do everything in the great out of doors?

That might have a negative impact on the "gallant reflex" ($1 to Leo Frankowski in "The Crosstime Engineer")

[Nolano]

In some ways Canada is just so far ahead of the US...

[crquack]

Hm. Toronto. Is that really Canada?

[Fencergrl]

Hm. Toronto. Is that really Canada?

Yeah... that was my sense of it. In general, it's best to pretend Toronto (or all of Ontario for that matter) is just part of the US or pretend it doesn't exist. Lord knows the feeling is mutual.

[jjefferies]

In general, it's best to pretend Toronto (or all of Ontario for that matter) is just part of the US or pretend it doesn't exist. Lord knows the feeling is mutual.

And all this time I thought it was just Quebec that they were trying to lose. Is there anything but the proximity of the US that keeps Canada together?

[Inquartata]

The binding effect of all that snow.

[Fencergrl]

Quebec talks about being a separate country and the rest of Canada feels indifferent. I suspect it's a bargaining tool.

Ontario thinks of itself as being all of Canada, or at least the only part that matters... which the rest of us can do without.

None of it is serious... we're just flinging snow at each other. Although I wish someone would fling some out west, we're having a truck the damn stuff in. We've been in the double digits for a month now.

[crquack]

Keep the snow out of here!

Oh, I expect you want it for that shindig in Vancouver. Well, let them learn how to do their half-pipes (or whatever it is they do) on straw. That I would watch!

[Fencergrl]

I didn't say we needed it in the city of Vancouver... that would be plain silly... I mean with the lack of winter tires, no one knowing how to drive in the stuff, plus the birds are already nesting.

Naw... just a little on top of all that straw on our mountain tops would have been nice. They are rather... brown. Doesn't seem right to have just a little snow there... it supposed to be winter (although frankly most of us haven't bothered to put away our summer clothes).