Best bathroom graffiti
Graffiti writers and sticker bombers hang at the Other Side Café, a hip little Back Bay joint nestled beside the Mass Pike that serves healthy, made-to-order lunch fare (hummus wraps, stacked sandwiches, yogurt-and-fruit bowls), juice concoctions (wheatgrass, anyone?), specialty coffee drinks (peppermint-patty lattes), and 60-some kinds of beer. And since a sizable percentage of the clientele can wield a spray can skillfully, it's only fitting that the walls of the two unisex bathrooms bear brightly colored graffiti. This isn't your typical CALL FOR A GOOD TIME latrinalia (the proper term for bathroom-wall graffiti); it's a legitimate canvas of vividly rendered pieces. In one restroom, pink arrows, purple swirls, and angular letters surround the mirror, the sink, and the paper-towel dispenser. Above them, an aperture reveals a cartoony scene of a paved road leading to an alien cityscape. Across the room, there's an apocalyptic painting of bubbling lava and machine cogs inside an orange, green, and red tag name. It doesn't matter that these paintings exist inside tag names indecipherable to the untrained eye - the paintings themselves are exquisite.

The Other Side Café, 407 Newbury Street, Boston, (617) 536-9477.