CR Diaries: Filling Station

July 3, 2008 | 09:23 AM
Category: • CR Diaries

When you’re in the urinal, you’re faced with this picture.

One thing you don’t want is people watching you when you’re doing your business. But here in Filling Station, you’ll get Sir Paul McCartney and the rest of the Beatles as your audience in the CR, which isn’t really all that bad because they’re the Beatles, after all.

You get a barrage of 50s American pop culture when you hang out at this diner in P. Burgos Street. And they take the theme all the way to their comfort room with their installation of framed posters of the Beatles and cars from the 50s. But that’s just the decoration. Thankfully, you have everything that you need to do your business in this CR (water, liquid soap and a hand dryer). But the great thing about this place is you can see that the CR once housed a shower. This is evidenced by the divider between the toilet and the sink. The management of the restaurant took away the shower and put the toilet inside without taking out the divider. They then installed a urinal in front of the sink, which means that two people can fit inside the CR. This makes things more efficient when it comes to people doing their business – no more long lines.

cr diaries, filling station

The tiles are very clean, odd for a CR on Burgos.

A minus for this CR though is its proximity to the Ladies Room (and vice versa). The two CRs are just beside each other, which means you hear everything that’s going on outside and inside the other CR. It eliminates the whole privacy of the CR, which is a definite minus.

3 stars for Filling Station’s CR.

By Karl Bustamante.

Images taken by the writer.

Filling Station is located along P. Burgos Street in Makati and can be contacted at 897-2053, 897-2054 and 897-2055.

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