toronto restaurant serves up water in reusable bottlesby laurie |
Toronto’s Bloor Street Diner deserves a gold medal in my books for being the first restaurant to join the innovative Green on Tap program: it will offer customers filtered water in the usual bottled water options (still or sparkling), the customers will receive their water in reusable 1L bottles, and $1 of the $4 cost will to toward the cost of transforming the Brick Works in Toronto’s Don Valley.
It’s estimated the initiative at this one restaurant alone will save some 12,000 bottles each year – absolutely mindboggling! Just think what would happen if more and more restaurants took part!
For more info, check out www.greenontap.ca. or click here for info on the Bloor Street Diner.
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Tags: Bloor Street Diner, Don Valley Brick Works, Green on Tap, Toronto
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I love this trend! Canada has amazing water resources so it’s nice to see a restaurant capitalizing on this wonderful natural gift that makes our country both special and blessed!
It’s fabulous, isn’t it? Let’s hope more restaurants get in on the action. Perhaps your husband’s fab Toronto restaurant Pangaea (http://www.pangaearestaurant.com/Pangaea.html) would consider it?
Have a great day, Dana!
Now I have another reason to hit up the Bloor Street Diner — besides their chocolate fountain at brunch, that is!
Chocolate fountain!! That is another good reason, isn’t it? For a do-it-at-home version (and no, I’m not being risqué!) check out my chocolate fondue post at http://www.styleathome.com/blogs/naturalchic/2009/02/10/green-amp-blacks-organic-chocolate-fondue/
Could one possibly ever have enough chocolate? I think not!
Although I like the idea, why not really save the planet and stop trying to be fancy by ordering Toronto tap water. We need to remember that the first R in the three R’s to going green is REDUCE! By ordering tap water there’s no glass or bottle to produce, transport or recycle.
Hi there Julie,
This is tap water! Just superfiltered and sparkled up, if that’s what you want! Plus, you get to donate money to a good cause to boot! And there’s no transport involved. The glass bottles are all on site, the equipment is right in the restaurant, the water is filtered right there, put in the bottles, brought to your table and voilà, superfiltered sparkling or still water with no recycling involved….just what you asked for!
Cheers, Laurie
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