Special still water

I’ll bite: How is it that water tastes better in a restaurant?

I went for lunch with an old friend today. We went to Chambar, a downtown restaurant. It was a little strange, with everyone in masks but the food was pretty darn good (more on that later).

To start the meal, our server asked if I wanted some water – still or sparkling. I asked for still and a bottle of this showed up. Check out that label! I’m assuming that in the cooler they have a multitude of bottles – some still, some sparkling and the labels are to tell the two apart when servers are grabbing them in a hurry.

Regardless, I think they’re snazzy.

And I think the water tastes better out of a bottle like this. Strange, but true. I had several glasses. They just kept on bringing more bottles of this wondrous stuff.