The Other Side Cafe - Boston, MA

The Other Side Cafe - 6.0

The Other Side Cafe is one of Boston's finer dive bars. Featuring a wide selection of beers and reasonably priced food, The Other Side has developed a reputation with beer snobs and punk kids alike. If you're looking to avoid over-priced, frat filled BU/Boylston St area bars, this could be the place for you. The Other Side Cafe is located at 407 Newbury St at Mass Ave. in Boston.

Location: After you walk into The Other Side Cafe, the Bathrooms are directly ahead of you. Might have to fight through a small crowd to get there, otherwise it couldn't be simpler!
Grade: 8 out of 10

Accessibility: The Other Side Cafe is 21+ as it is a bar, though it might be possible for someone underage (not recommended!) to sneak through. Outside of that, you're in the clear, none of the staff here would bother you.
Grade: 7 out of 10

Number of Stalls: There are two bathrooms, shared by patrons of both sexes and everything that might be in between. If they're occupied, you might be in Tee-Rubble.
Grade: 4 out of 10


Stall Quality: On this night, The Shit Critic used the bathroom to the left. The bathrooms here are individual rooms that are reasonably sizeable. There is one toilet, a sink, a coat hanger, a trash can and not much else (not that there could be much more). We'd prefer if there was a urinal, but all in all, not bad.
Grade: 7 out of 10





Toiler Paper: This toilet paper wasn't the best. It was two ply that had started separating and didn't look all that nice to start. At least it's covered up, right?
Grade: 4 out of 10

Cleanliness: For a dive bar, this restroom was pretty clean outside of the normal stuff you'd expect like a few pieces of toilet paper on the floor. Either the staff does good work, or the patrons are quite respectful...
Grade: 7 out of 10

Scent: No real scent here, though if need be, I imagine the window could be opened. There weren't any preventative measures, so there is some potential for disaster on this front.
Grade: 5 out of 10

Flush: The flush here was relatively weak for a standard 6 LPF toilet. I certainly wouldn't drop off all the kids at once, or see how much toilet paper can fit in this puppy. They do provide a plunger though.
Grade: 5 out of 10

Aesthetics: One of the finer points of this bathroom is the art in it. As you can see in the photo's above, the bathroom is painted with characters and creatures quite colorfully. Seems to be that the fine folks over at Urban Monsters have taken some time to make the restrooms there a bit more colorful and pleasant!
Grade: 9 out of 10

Extra Credit:
Plunger: +1
No Paper Towels: -3

The Bottom Line: Not a bad bathroom at all, perhaps one of your better late night options in the area, especially if you're just wearing jeans and a t-shirt.