5$ (more or less a few pesos), depending if they do “alcohol” or other kind of beverage service.

using bombillas to sip “regular” (or herbal) tea here in the US, but I don’t see why you couldn’t if you wanted to. You can dispense with the strainers and infusers in that case. If you have a Mexican Mercado (market) nearby you...

one of us put it quite aptly with “friggin ugly”) have been entirely ignored. And for all the nifty bottled soda pops, there is not one diet beverage. I continue to out myself as an excoriating bitch at...

? Have the owners been able to supply any more info? Chocolate shakes have been around forever; iced coffee, too. 7-11’s have dispensed “slushies” for a pretty long time; the juicing craze took off in the...

and one larger picnic style table with benches inside, about 4 small tables for 2 outside) and no highchairs or booster seats. Also no beverages except bottled water and beer were available although it looked like they might have...

the personal touches. The large metal milk dispenser was covered with pictures of the staff’s family. Little Christmas stockings with the staff’s names were hung. Someone’s child was hanging out. That was nostalgic for me. My mom...

I’m thinking of saving for a new fridge. Can I talk about that on this board? I really want one of the big side-by-side american style ones, with an ice dispenser and water filter. The best one I’ve seen is the Samsung...

Does someone monitor the beverage dispensers at these ‘free refill’ places? The few that I’ve seen are away from the cash register and I guess if a person wanted to slosh out of the restaurant, they could. GF,...

I just ate there for lunch. It was surprising to see such a basic pizza joint in posh Chevy Chase. It’s basically just another pizza place with the parmesan and pepper flake dispensers on the table, and possibly a half step...

a shrimp and snow pea stir fry that was served with a side of steamed rice. I didn’t taste it, but eventhough it looked fresh, it still looked quite ordinary. And like Pei Wei, there’s even a place in the back near...

-flavored drinks)? Or do some tea shops specialize in natural brews, and others in powdered instant versions? And what’s the relationship between bubble tea and other tapioca pearl beverages? In a Vietnamese place on a...

own. Self-serve food and beverages. Oh, and don’t be misled by the website’s picture of a table with a wine bottle on it; your beverage choices are water, fountain drinks, tea, and coffee. To be fair, the cashier, the...

The reason why fountain soda is less fizzy or carbonated is first due to it being dispensed into a cup or container, Salesman and technicians from all the major players have also told me the type of ice used will also affect the...

be more a way to adapt to the constraints of the room than an attempt to impose a utopian “know your neighbor” philosophy on customers. I was a little worried about the limited beverage selection in light of my wife’s pregnancy,...

, cheese tortes, wine, foie & apple tarts... could it be an improvised food vendor not in the Roseland barrio? Yup... a pickup truck, a tarp, folding table, catering steam table, hot beverage dispenser, paper napkins, plastic...