Playing “Where’s My Water” In London

By Aarthi Aruna

London is expensive: there is no denying that. It’s a big city-the biggest in the entire United Kingdom. We found some affordable gems, but in general it was easy to run up the bill. The easiest way for a massive check? Ordering water. Part two to my Dishoom story is that some of the food was quite spicy. Living in America, we’re all too familiar with asking for more water and when the spices were burning our mouths, it slipped everyone’s mind that across the Atlantic, water suddenly gains a price tag.

Dishoom is by no means cheap, but to our horror, we realized we spent 24 pounds (about 30 dollars) on water when we got the bill. It simply didn’t click when we asked for more water over and over again.

I’m not sure how we figured this out, but some sort of angel sent from the heavens told us that tap water was often free at restaurants. It was funny because at Dishoom this wasn’t an option that was given to us. We were simply asked: still or sparkling? I almost felt cheated because how would we have known about this third option? After learning about this tap water life hack, I did not hold back. I had to try not to interrupt our server when they gave us just two options.

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