Would You Pay £60 for a Bottle of Water in a Restaurant ?
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This is what one restaurant is charging customers in a restaurant in London
To be honest i would not even pay that for a bottle of champagne never mind water
But i am sure some idiots will pay it , despite filtered tap water being free of charge
One reason for the price increasing is that more people are going teetotal so they have swapped the price and put the premiums on water
To further justify their costs they say drink is where they make their profits
Its enough to make you turn to alcohol !!
I'd rather go in the toilets and drink from the tap than pay that, £60 is ridiculous....
telmel or you had to pay to use them lol , there is absolutely no way I'd pay £60 for water, that's a good night out and a pizza to walk with for us 
I wouldn't, but the people willing to pay £1,000+ for a restaurant meal probably wouldn't care. There was a time when people baulked at the idea of buying any type of bottled water. Now there are water sommeliers. Upmarket restaurants will likely try to normalise expensive drinking water. There are also websites, such as Fine Waters, trying to raise the status and appreciation of bottled water - finewaters.com/bottled-waters-of-the-world/uk
I wouldn't mind trying Kona Deep, which is deep ocean water from Hawaii - konadeep.com/
Or, Beverly Hills 9OH2O - www.beverlywater.com/
To be honest I'm not the sort of person that would ever be in such a restaurant that would charge that much. Even recently when I've been making use of Hungry Horse's 2 English breakfasts for £4.80 I still ask for tap water with the meal which is free.
BonzoBanana The Hungey Horse is a great restaurant B, you always get good offers there
If people are stupid enough to pay it, let them do so and give the sellers a good laugh at their stupidity. Even if I were rich I wouldn't allow myself to be taken for a mug.
Are people that daft that they would pay that amount for water, I would just go without, in fact it's probably not the sort of place I would visit anyway.
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Jerseydrew The only place i might be willing to pay that would be if i was dying of thirst in the Sahara Desert, but i would look for camels milk first though 
MelissaLee1 I bet some people are reluctant to ask for it incase they think the waiters will look down their noses at them, but it would not bother me, tap water it is
MelissaLee1 In Wetherspoons you can just ask for a free soda water even if you are just buying a cup of coffee for £1.20 or something which in itself has free refills. They often offer to put in ice and lemon or lime too. This is really appreciated in the summer months.
BonzoBanana That's why they are so popular B, its a shame other establishments don't go the extra mile like they do
BonzoBanana Really? I didn't know this. I have never been to a Weatherspoon's pub, but I will now for a hot and cold drink. Thanks for the tip.
No way. I don’t think any of us in this group would. The filthy rich might but doesn’t mean they are intelligent just because they are rich. I’d probably just go for a normal drink but I doubt I’d go to such a restaurant anyway unless I was invited to some special occasion. Very unlikely though.
We have been to some nice high end resturants and the most i have paid is £5 and moaned about that. They will normally, if you ask, give you a jug of Council Pop. (Tap Water)
Free publicity for the so-called restaurant. Who are their customers? Drug dealers and their sorts?
Tax invaders! I can't think of anything positive about this so-called business.
It’s a status thing isn’t it and like others said if you’re paying £1000+ for a meal you aren’t going to care about paying that for water.
Sad though cause i’m sure most wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from cheap bottled water.
jms19 I know someone who worked in vegas who said he was told to rub alcohol around the rim of the glass of sozzled buyers.Bet they do that in some of the shady clubs as well.
jms19 Who's to say it isn't just tap water or some cheap supermarket bottled water siphoned off into expensive bottles J ?
I am sure there are ways to open and reseal a bottle so it looks unused, and they would make even more of a profit on it , and as you say there are not many water 'connaisseurs' out there that would taste the difference , especially after a hot and spicy meal
I would rather pay 60p for a bottle of water. I wonder if they have many customers? Some people have more money than sense.
PhilipMarc Don't give them ideas P, they might put some gold leaf in it and charge £300 a bottle
Ridiculous. However some people pay huge prices for drinks without even questioning the price. Big city thinking Big city drinking syndrome I call it.
Some people with money have no sense of how most people have to live.Most people can not afford to go to a restaurant of any kind.£60 will go along way but not on water.
Never.
I probably spend that much on my weekly food shopping. And there's no water bottles included.
Find it hard paying £1 on a water bottle.
Never mind £60 ridiculous
Absolutely not. I'd order tap water (it's safe where I live) if it's water I want. But eating out warrants a drink other than water but costing less than a tenth of that usually!
Some people have more money than sense. Mind you I wouldn’t mind better our drinking water quality has worsened over recent times
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