Bornstein's
Fast service, pleasant treatment, clean clothes. 1000 Beacon St., Brookline, MA .
The Red Line extension to Quincy
The Red Line extension to Quincy, which is air-conditioned, clean and efficient. MA
Gold's Gym
This clean, bright, well-equipped gym is as big as your lats will be. 71 Landsdowne Street, Boston, MA .
Boston College Student Sports Complex
New and clean and complete—if you want better, you'll have to go to Jyväskylä, Finland. off Beacon St., Newton, MA .
Healthworks
Sorry, fellas: This is a women-only gym, with a long list of classes and a bright, clean locker room. 441 Stuart St., Boston, MA 2116, healthworksfitness.com.
Another tie-Boston College's Jack Bicknell and Gary Williams, and Harvard's Bill Cleary.
Bush Quality Cleaners
They don't literally clean your clothes on the spot, but they pickup and deliver at office buildings for no extra charge. 101 Federal Street, Boston, MA .
Copy Quik
These perfectionists in red blazers use the newest machines available and make clean copies quickly and cheaply. 1230 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA .
The Legislature
The legislature refused to finance the clean elections law, then reversed a planned tax cut, even though both were approved by voters in a referendum.
Supreme Judicial Court
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that state property—potentially including office furniture of legislative leaders—could be sold to pay for the clean elections law.
Avenue C
A clean basement space where young professionals can dance in jeans and loafers and know that the next song will never be by Madonna or Paula Abdul. 5 Boylston Place, Boston, MA .
The Fairway Sports World
This place doesn't mess around. It's big and clean and uncluttered by such bowling alley side dishes as video games, coffee shops, and bars. 721 Worcester Road (Route 9), Natick, MA .
Meritage
It should come as no surprise that the wine list at Meritage is outstanding. The entire concept of the restaurant is, after all, about pairing food and wine. After 15 years as executive chef of the dining rooms at the Boston Harbor Hotel and of its annual Boston Wine Festival, Daniel Bruce is now cooking for a wine-first audience. The menus at Meritage lead off not with first courses, but a selection of wine styles—sparkling, light, full-bodied, and so on—that are then paired with an appropriate dish. Such a system demands a wine list that's substantial, varied, and reasonably priced, and sommelier Jamie Moore has seen to it that this one is. Moore changes the 850-choice list every two weeks to make room for more bottles of special but recognizable Rhone varietals like Cline, Côtes d'Oakley, or rare gems such as an Aile d'Argent, Château Mouton Rothschild from Bordeaux, or the heaven-on-earth elixir 1990 Château d'Yquem Lur-Saluces, Sauternes. The informed servers want you to enjoy the wine as much as they clearly do, and manage to explain the options in plain English. Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, Boston, MA meritagetherestaurant.com.
Star Market
Clean, well-stocked and so vast that some shoppers have never come back. Try it when you get a craving for paté at 4 a.m. 800 Boylston St., Boston, MA .
Black Magic Chimney Sweeps
Larry O'Connor is even honest enough to tell you that you don't need your chimney cleaned when you think you do. 10 Spring St., Cambridge, MA .