Mmmmm…Claim Jumper. In my series of “wow-I-can’t-believe-I-waited-this-long-to-post-a-review” reviews, I visited Claim Jumper October 17, 2009. Yes folks, you read that right…I’m still…ahem…behind…

I honestly can’t remember what I had that night, but I can say without a doubt my bread choice was a sourdough roll. Sourdough bread has to be on my all-time list of favorite breads, very near (if not at) the top—and Claim Jumper does a great job on their sourdough. I even tried to become a fan on Facebook, or join a group, or something…but there weren’t any good ones (well, there was one, but it was for bakers intersted in naturally leavened breads, pretty outside my scope of “sourdough bread tastes good, I like to eat it…”). If you’re interested, you can see it here.

Okay, enough food talk…let’s get to the meat and potatoes of this review!

Their bathroom utilize dark woods and dark-colored tiles (dark green and a purple-red), and offsets that with bright lighting and a white floor (although there are dark green tiles in the floor). The result is a warm inviting—almost cheery—bathroom that’s not overly intimate or too cozy. Claim Jumper keeps their bathrooms clean, which is pretty amazing since it’s hard to even get a seat in the bar area (where we ended up sitting) on a Saturday night. Add to that generous portions and a stacked bar and if you weren’t on top of things…well, I’ll leave that to your imagination—Enjoy!

Claim Jumper gets four rolls for cleanliness and design…and I still don’t really get why bathrooms need to have AC adapters…hmm…maybe I shouldn’t ask…

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Delightfully tacky…yet unrefined.™ These four little words sum up the Hooters experience nicely (which might explain why the phrase is Hooters’ tagline).

To give you an idea of how far behind I am…we went 9/12/09…

There’s not much I can say over and above their tagline…the bathroom is a little on the “tacky” side without being overly so. The wood paneling maintains the feel of the restaurant, sort of down-homey and garage-y without being a down-home/garage theme…if that makes any sense. I liked the orange diamond (in the event you weren’t aware, bright orange is Hooters’ primary color) randomly placed between the urinals. They have a couple items on the walls, as you can see in the entrance picture, and I wasn’t able to get a good shot (people started filing in) but they have advertisements and the Playboy cover featuring Hooters. A quick search on Google turned up a bunch of issues, since I didn’t remember to check which issue’s cover they had posted (that’s gotta be a Trivial Pursuit question somewhere…”Which issue of Playboy is featured in the bathroom at Hooters of Natomas?”) Four rolls because it’s clean and above average…they carried over the design from the restaurant and provided me with the sports section to read (see the newspaper above the urinal in picture #2).

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