Where do you report a restaurant that wont give you tap water if you ask for it?

ECHR.

There is a special priority list for such urgent cases

Its gouging but is it really worth the effort of reporting? The people running this restaurant are idiots. Go elsewhere in future.

The best restaurants Ive been to get a jug / jugs of water and glasses on the table even before the orders go in. They dont have to be asked.

Everyone then orders their soft drinks, alcohol etc. as they know they wont get done on water or have to go asking for it. Smart restaurants do this in my opinion. More chance of desserts / coffees ordered a tip left also.

Absolutely that is what the OP should have done once they came out with the BS suggestion that the water is unsafe.

If so then the food is unsafe.

They have the right not to give the customer free tap water, but it seems exactly the kind of pointless, miserly thing that makes everybody at the table think 'Well I won't be coming here again' and the cost of that (and word of mouth) obviously exceeds the cost of the water and 30 seconds of a waiter's time.

They'll be getting the same pay for their shift regardless of how much they serve.

It's not the same at all. There was nothing wrong with the water in this restaurant, it was just a mean, total BS, excuse to try to gain a few euro in extra profits which appears to have backfired spectacularly.

what if the water was undrinkable? It's not unheard of.

I had a restaurant for 9 years.

You do not make much money on the food. It mostly comes from the beverages.

So unless you are ordering the scallops and lobster, please remember this.

Your friend though wasnt refused water - they were refused free tap water and there may very well have been a good reason for this. Your friend could have paid for bottled water.

A person that goes to a restaurant and only wants to drink tap water and nothing else it not a good customer from a business point of view. Possibly they need to give their head a little wobble and next time think about how unreasonable it is sitting in a restaurant and only wanting to drink what is free!

Also your approach should have been to complain to management if it annoyed you so much. But your first reaction seemed to be to report the restaurant and make them suffer which is very unreasonable on your part. What did you want to achieve - close them down, put people out of jobs, make them pay a big fine.

Buy a coke etc and then ask for some tap water.

Have some respect.

There was mention in one of the OPs posts that the water drinking friend having her christmas party there but now it wont be... How true that is, we will never know. If s/he was only going for the cheap and free stuff, it's probably no loss to the restaurant, at a time of year when most restaurants are booked out.

They were probably all going to drink water, have no starters and pay separately anyway.

No loss.

Christmas parties are usually never held in indian restaurants as Indian cuisine is not loved by everyone. I dont believe that part of the story that their christmas party is planned for this restuarent!

What was the name of this Indian restaurant? I'd like to experience their customer service myself.