Frenchette NYC - anyone BYO?

[Zachary Ross]

Excited to go to Frenchette this Sunday. Wine list looks great, but just curious if anyone has gone and brought their own wine?

[ybarselah]

it's a hard no.

[Zachary Ross]

Thanks.

[WvanGorp]

Hope you enjoy natural wines.

[Zachary Ross]

I do - no worries.

[mark rudner]

Hope you enjoy natural wines.

one of the reasons i haven't gone yet. and i want that duck frites so badly!

[p@ulbortin]

I’ve enjoyed my visits with beer off the list.

[Mike Cohen]

The duck frites was great. I went during dry January to avoid the pain of the wine list.

Zak...food is very good and the people watching is even better.

[Zachary Ross]

Lots of good choices on the list - but man is it pricey.

[ybarselah]

Hope you enjoy natural wines.

... out of water glasses....

[Mich@el Ch@ng]

Champagnes look nice but $$$

[Sarah Kirschbaum]

Hope you enjoy natural wines.

... out of water glasses....

Really? They suffer from that affectation as well?

[ybarselah]

Hope you enjoy natural wines.

... out of water glasses....

Really? They suffer from that affectation as well?

not like gibralters, but these short-stemmed odd glasses that most places use for water. we asked for "wine glasses" and they said "these are them!" okay cool.

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[Ethan Abraham]

Those looks like the sort of glasses they serve you beer in at breweries.

[Sarah Kirschbaum]

... out of water glasses....

Really? They suffer from that affectation as well?

not like gibralters, but these short-stemmed odd glasses that most places use for water. we asked for "wine glasses" and they said "these are them!" okay cool.

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Ugh, horrible. I always figured the tiny glasses they normally use at natural wine bars are because no one actually *wants* to accentuate the nose on them. But these are egregious.

[Robert Dentice]

I have literally started BYOZing to many restaurants. BYOZ = Bring your own zaltos!

[Zachary Ross]

I bring stems to places with crappy glasses. Looks like I will to Frenchette too!

[ybarselah]

I bring stems to places with crappy glasses. Looks like I will to Frenchette too!

please post their reaction here

[Zachary Ross]

I bring stems to places with crappy glasses. Looks like I will to Frenchette too!

please post their reaction here

You expecting fireworks?

[DanielP]

I thought the glassware was fine. Bowl is reasonably shaped and sized. The disgust seems a little extreme

[Peter Kleban]

Really? They suffer from that affectation as well?

not like gibralters, but these short-stemmed odd glasses that most places use for water. we asked for "wine glasses" and they said "these are them!" okay cool.

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Ugh, horrible. I always figured the tiny glasses they normally use at natural wine bars are because no one actually *wants* to accentuate the nose on them. But these are egregious.

Be thankful. They could use Mason jars

[ybarselah]

I thought the glassware was fine. Bowl is reasonably shaped and sized. The disgust seems a little extreme

i think given the type of restaurant, the prices, the wine list (and its pricing) and all else, results in a very reasonable expectation for proper wines glasses. the glasses they offer were a choice to do so - i don't know why they made that choice - but it was a choice nonetheless. no one is demanding zalto, but to expect a proper glass is normal.

[m. ristev]

small bowl = less exposure to oxygen = less mouse???

[DanielP]

I thought the glassware was fine. Bowl is reasonably shaped and sized. The disgust seems a little extreme

i think given the type of restaurant, the prices, the wine list (and its pricing) and all else, results in a very reasonable expectation for proper wines glasses. the glasses they offer were a choice to do so - i don't know why they made that choice - but it was a choice nonetheless. no one is demanding zalto, but to expect a proper glass is normal.

Again, I thought the wine glasses were fine. What's the complaint, that the stem is too short?

[Victor Hong]

small bowl = less exposure to oxygen = less mouse???

Applicable strategy, when dining in Chinatown.

[Mike Cohen]

Z-

How was Frenchette?

Like I said before, I thought the food and people watching was a ton of fun. But we were there while I was adhering to dry January, so no issues with the wine list. My wife did order one of their cocktails (the Rayuela) while we were waiting for our table. She said it was undrinkable. Way too much ginger. When we sat down our server asked if we wanted drinks and my wife ordered a negroni. Our server noticed that the previous cocktail was basically untouched and said, "let me take care of that for you". She took it away and when I looked at the bill, it was removed from the bill as well. It was handled in a classy way.

[Zachary Ross]

Didn't go! Rescheduled for Feb 24 - I'll post then!

[WvanGorp]

The one time I went my dining companion commented “why is everyone drinking cocktails and not wine?”