Perfect! I suggest you advise your friends their policy is illegal. There are several things they could do to increase their alc sales. The food was decent with two great dishes and a few mediocre ones.
Will pass it along if you have a link to the violation or an email referencing to the illegality of it.
Would a $60-70 beverage minimum have been different for you? I’m happy to pass along suggestions with the code violations.
Their wine prices are at basically retail pricing plus a small markup. They have a bunch of like $20-30 btls as well
I was told about 2 btl min but I got 1, shared with the staff / team etc. and no one bugged me to get a second btl.
Tasty food. Would definitely go again. As innovative as I’ve seen for Thai food. Note: I went on omakese night. Not ordering dishes off a menu.
U just have to buy the btls. U don’t have to open them. U can take it home. Tho admittedly that policy would not work well if u can’t or unable to drink!
Chock this thread up to another classic wine board whine fest…
They have well priced cedric Bouchard you could have taken home and eaten there happily sober. But since you wouldn’t be able to make a reservation without knowing the requirement, you also wouldn’t make a reservation when you’re on call and can’t drink. So kind of a moot point in your situation
I’m not very sympathetic to any beverage charge requirements. Just call the LA ABC office
for the code.
Unfortunately, those prices are seemingly part of a bate and switch. See my comment up stream on pricing. I would guess the mean price is $60ish
Out of curiosity, when you asked ABC about the legality issue how was did you describe it? Because initially it sounded like you needed to buy two bottles for on-site consumption. Then it was pointed out that it’s two bottles for on-site or to-go. I’m personally not a fan of the policy either way but leaving out key details was misleading.
$85 sounds more like a one gram minimum.
Anajak? Man did we go to the same spot? Haha
Maybe they changed their offerings in the last couple of month. When I went In Feb, I thought they had mostly $25, $35 btls. I had to dig around and found a Cedric Bouchard.
Shared with the server and kitchen team. No one mentioned btl count to be honest. I’m not a fan of the policy either, but I do think being chill solves a lot of these issues 
I looked at the screen shot Fu posted where they ‘politely decline substitutions’ right after they warn patrons they have peanuts and all kinds of allergans. If someone comes in and requests that they not have peanuts on top of their Pad Thai, do they really reject that?
14 year old kid here just died from analeptic seizure of some kind. That NFW substitutions policy is kind of whacked.
Just made reservations. Been meaning to try this place. Thanks. Lol
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Omission and substitution are different things.
Most restaurants are not rigid with rules. If you’re allergic and they can take it off without ruining the dish - I can’t imagine a place won’t do it. Publicized rules are mostly so ppl won’t ask for stupid substitutions.
I don’t eat meat. So they do a pad Thai for me without meat.
Also the substitution policy is only to do with their Omakase tasting menu which is separate from ala charge.
That no substitution rule applies to their omakase table only, I believe.
Cheers.
Fortuitous timing. I reached out to them to discuss this and they stated they had already stopped the policy as of Sunday. They were changing Resy now to reflect the change so there would be no further confusion.
I just looked and the minimum is gone from Resy
Did you reach out to them about this Charlie or did they do this without knowing about this thread? The policy was in place about 15 minutes ago when I checked resy
Cheers
I asked if he ever considered changing to a beverage minimum opposed to two bottles per person. (He doesn’t know what wineberserkers is)
He replied “as of Sunday we got rid of the minimum all together”
I said “oh I saw it was still on resy”
he was going to change it later in the week since they do not do sit down service until Thursday night but he went ahead and altered resy tonight. He didn’t think it was actually going to be an immediate issue so this thread was more unfortunate timing than anything.
Either way - I still highly recommend the restaurant. Outside of GG - all other wineberserkers have loved it. I know Robert dentice gave a glowing reviewing of the omakase.
It was very cak handed, ill advised, and to their credit changed when they realized the problems. Sounds like a fun place.
just finding my legs. seems like a nice place.
This would be a serious issue in Oregon. Oregon law requires you to not to serve and to remove drinks from visibly intoxicated patrons. It takes few violations to lose your liquor license. And if a patron were in an accident, the restaurant would most certainly be in a liability situation.