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So Long, San Pellegrino?

Written by Todd Kliman
, Ann Limpert
and Cynthia Hacinli
| Published on December 29, 2008
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Could bottled water at restaurants be going the way of Châteaubriand? Restaurant Eve, Hook, Cork, and Poste have all taken to bottling their own sparkling and still waters.

Eve chef/owner Cathal Armstrong says the do-it-yourself water costs more, but he doesn’t miss the 80 cases of empty bottles that were ending up in the trash each month. Another perk: Some of the restaurants can customize the size and effervescence of their sparklers.

Even so, the movement toward self-bottling isn’t likely to get too precious. “At the end of the day,” says Armstrong, “water is water.”

This appeared in the January, 2009 issue of The Washingtonian. 

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