This week's edition of "Sh*t That Could Only Happen in Los Angeles, Like Seriously" is brought to you by LA-based eatery Ray's & Stark Bar, which will make history next week by unveiling a brand-new, 45-page menu featuring . . . water. Just water. Different bottled waters, to be fair, including water from ten different countries and carrying a variety of price tags. But still, water. The same stuff that you can get at your neighborhood Starbucks or McDonald's for exactly $0. Welcome to Los Angeles.
Ray's & Stark Bar's bottled water selection is billed as the city's "most extensive water menu" and features everything from the super luxe Berg, (harvested from glaciers in Western Greenland, retails for $20 a bottle) to the more commonplace Evian (filtered through sand and gravel in the French Alps, $8 a bottle). The menu also features bottles of "9OH2O" water created by Ray's & Stark's GM Martin Riese and described as "the champagne of waters" by. . . Riese's restaurant, of course.
It's true that there's probably a taste difference between the water gushing from a Chevron bathroom sink and the glass-bottled selection that Ray's & Stark is offering. We're just not really sure that taste difference is worth a $20 price tag. But hey, what's Los Angeles without a group of aficionados loudly declaring their preference for volcanically filtered groundwater over the freshwater spring alternatives?
Peep the menu in its bougie entirety here:
H/T + PicThx Eater, The Bitchy Waiter
