Article: Tapping into greener dining, eateries table bottled water

At the restaurant T.W. Food, a black-clad server circulates, pitcher of water in hand. "Good evening," she says to a table of diners. "Can I offer you a glass of Cambridge filtered?"

At Small Plates in Harvard Square, the menu lists "Individual Bottled Water," but instead of a price you'll find this message: "Not sold here because plastic bottles are BAD BAD BAD for the environment & that water is really no better than tap water."

Boston-area restaurants are beginning to climb aboard the no- bottled-water bandwagon rolling in from California, where big-name establishments such as Berkeley's Chez Panisse have sworn off bottled and Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco decreed last summer that ...

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