THE STARS (Party Edition)
Sparkling water, Honor Levy (again), buses, plus details for our upcoming soirée
★★★★★ Complimentary sparkling water
Sparkling or still: Is that the question? Not long ago, if the waiter posed this binary, you’d simply say, “still please,” and not even consider forking out $12 for a 700ml bottle of San Pelli (or maybe two, the second opened sneakily without consent). Why go into debt when you could have a long glass of Melbourne’s fluoride-spiked finest? These days, it’s not so simple. There are cafes, sandwich joints, and fancy restaurants that have sparkling on tap—and they will serve it gratis if you ask. The problem, of course, is that asking for anything, let alone “is your sparkling free?” is pure humiliation. Not to get all Larry David about it, but they should have to put a sign up somewhere indicating whether the bubbles are on the house or not. As a public service, we have compiled a catalogue of free-sparkling joints in this city. (List, below, is compiled from reader submissions. It is neither exhaustive nor fact checked. Jesus Christ, we’re not Broadsheet.)
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