As The Comet Tavern’s longtime former owner Sam Wright described its storied, filthy bathroom, “You could hock a loogie on the mirror and put a cigarette butt out on it, and it would stay there the whole week.” While the Tavern’s post-makeover bathroom is nothing fancy, it earns this award for the fact that one can now sit on the toilet seat without risk of acquiring an exotic flesh-eating virus. Hooray for healthy butts.

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