Rendezvous in the Loo

What's new in restaurant architecture these days? I discovered during my trip to NYC this past winter that the newest place for singles to meet each other is in the loo. Well, not exactly the toilet, but the washroom. We were having a drink at the Museum bar next to the MOMA. The Museum is a modern low lit bar restaurant with a gorgeous glass wall stacked with wine bottles and backlit to give a halo around each bottle. We sat and drank our cocktails on low flat modular leather benches. The wall next to us was a mural. Protecting the mural was a wall of glass. I eventually found my way to the mens' room just behind the mural. What caught me by surprise when I entered was to see a woman washing up in front of the basin. I immediately turned and walked back through the door. I looked carefully at the entrance and paused. When I walked back through the door the second time, I had finally realized the bathroom was communal, except for individually enclosed toilet stalls. They eliminated the ubiquitous urinal for guys, no big lost. That same weekend, we went to the Schilling's Liquor Bar and found they had the same arrangement. What's even more engaging, the wash basins face each other. It makes starting a conversation with that woman you're eyeing all night long, that much easier. Oh hey now I can rendezvous with the wife in the loo!