Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water

Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water

By MARIAN BURROS
Published: May 30, 2007
DON’T bother asking for Fiji, San Pellegrino or any other designer water at either Incanto, a restaurant that opened in San Francisco in 2002, or at Poggio, which opened in Sausalito, Calif., two years later.

Good, the fewer people who give into the bottled water myth the better.

[Happy Monkey]

While bottled water is just tap water, it is also tap water from a place where the tap water isn't manky. My tap water is fine (if you're not too chicken to drink lead), but there are plenty of places where the tap water is not pleasant.

"Designer water" is just silly, though.

[piercehawkeye45]

If you do buy bottle water, I think it is only pure if it goes through reverse osmosis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse...r_purification

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

"Designer water" is just silly, though.

Without designer water, where would we get enough plastic bottles to fill the landfills?

[Happy Monkey]

If it's really designer water, it comes in glass bottles.

[Clodfobble]

We live in an area with safe and completely drinkable but relatively "hard" water. It does have a mild flavor, but not as bad as, say, rural Illinois where I simply could not drink the tap water it tasted so foul to me. Anyway, water softeners are common, and some of the restaurants have them on a stronger setting than is necessary for our area. The result is that the water is too soft for my taste. Its utter tastelessness is actually a little unnerving, and even doesn't feel like it quenches my thirst as well. The ice is almost mushy.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

If it's really designer water, it comes in glass bottles.

No shit, really? Anywhere I've been that had it on the menu, had something I'd rather drink than water. No wonder it's so expensive, shipping glass will kill ya.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

The result is that the water is too soft for my taste.

The non spring waters like Coke bottles, they clean it up and then put minerals back in so it won't taste flat.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

No shit, really? Anywhere I've been that had it on the menu, had something I'd rather drink than water. No wonder it's so expensive, shipping glass will kill ya.

Yeah. I actually once bought a bottle of it because the bottle was nice. It was deep blue glass and a nice vase shape. The water in it tasted like water.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hmmmm, yeah...blue glass.... I've even paid money for empty bottles of cobalt glass.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Though the from the spring and not messed with a-tall is fun. I like the flintiness of Trinity bottled water. It's like the anti-Evian.

And we use filter pitchers.

[glatt]

I grew up in Maine, and the tap water there was freaking awesome!

In fact, I had a friend a couple miles away in Poland Maine, just down the road from the big water bottling plant, and since his house used well water, he used to joke that he used Poland Spring water to flush his toilet.

Here in the DC area, the water comes from the river, and isn't as yummy, but it's just fine.

[Spexxvet]

Our water company bottles and sells their water retail. As is.

[Rexmons]

proof consumers are stupid:

$40 - $50

[Happy Monkey]

Even stupider: "hexagonal water".

But homeopathic water is the most expensive tap water out there.

[wolf]

Several of my new-agey girlfriends swear by placing their bottled water on top of their Messages from Water Oracle cards overnight so that their water embodies the quality of the cards.

I think the cards are too expensive to use as coasters. They are poorly laminated, and setting a cold glass/bottle of water on top of them pretty much guarantees that you'll need to buy another set of the cards ... oh, wait. I get it. It's a sales tool.