A Requiem for Sparkling Water in SF Restaurants

Posted by Jessica on Nov. 25, 2008

I travel a lot for business and love to order sparkling water in leiu of an alcoholic beverage. But in San Francisco, I can do that no more as restaurants have adopted an anti bottled water policy.

The irony, as I lunched at Zuni, was that I could order Aranciata or Limonata, which are flavored versions of Pellegrino, but I could not order a Pellegrino plain. I also could have fested on Zuni’s vast menu of beers and boutique sodas by the bottle, as well as their wine selection, all of which clog landfills as much as a bottle of Pellegrino does. But my ordering sparkling water resulted in my waiter saying, “Sorry Ma’am, we no longer offer that. I can offer you tap water instead.”

  • Michelle
    SF's water is famously pure and clean; more restaurants should follow the example set by Incanto, which for years has offered glass carafes of its house-filtered and -sparkled water.
  • talboito
    I'd heard more restaurants are moving toward sparkling their own water rather than selling it in bottles. Perhaps we're just in a transition period with many of them.
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