Updated through January 2, 2016. All new additions to the first post have the date that they were added to the list. Hope this helps.
Enjoyed Santa Fe last night. Convenient to Lincoln Center. Reasonably priced southwest cooking and attentive service. Creative specials. We brought a full throttle Napa cab that worked well with the spices. Corkage is still $15. Not sure how much they charge for more than one bottle. Even though restaurant was crowded, kitchen and servers were on the ball.
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I’ve a couple of French visitors that I will be taking out to dinner and they voiced out their preferences for Mexican or American or Tex-Mex. I don’t do much of those locally, hence may take them to this place. If I do, I’d like to byob, what’s the stem situation like?
Red or white wine bar stems. Bring a corkscrew unless you don’t mind the bus person opening your bottle.
Had dinner at Fatty Fish (East 64th). It was very acceptable neighborhood sushi… There was a bottle of BYO’d wine on nearly every table. Attitude was very good.
Funny, I went there for the first time this weekend. Went there because I took my younger daughter and a couple of her friends and didn’t feel like spending $1000+.
No corkage fee and as you said, very solid food. I was pleasantly surprised.
Peking duck house is the best for nyc corkage. No charge, but bring glassware.
This is a useful tip. Thanks!
I don’t have much experience with Tex-Mex/Southwest, but our small non-uber-winegeek group, with visiting friends from Lyon, enjoyed all our dishes last night at Santa Fe in UES. Just as mentioned above, the food all appear to be well-executed and appealingly-presented, and were delicious, the service was attentive and un-rushed, and the ambiance was not uncomfortable. The restaurant was receptive to our byo’d dry German starter and 2 syrah that went well with the dishes, was quoted $15 corkage (stems are not the good kinds, but serviceable for the lower end CA syrah and Crozes Hermitage that we brought).
At Scarpetta for dinner last night. $35 corkage, 1 byo bottle per table max. Very helpful and attentive sommelier and wine service on both our byo and purchased-from-list bottle.
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Marea corkage is up to $65
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That’s a lot, though last time I was there they didn’t charge us when we ordered 1.5 more bottles (both <$100) off the list.
Another vote for fatty fish. We have opened probably ten bottles there at once. Always cool and they try to give you as many glasses as you can reasonably fit on the table.
Last Saturday’s dinner at El Quinto Pino, a Spanish tapas joint in Chelsea, included 3 BYOB’d bottles for $15 each. Stemware is not near the better kinds, but serviceable for the <$40 bottles that we brought. The food’s good and the staff were all byob-friendly. Most in our party liked the authentic Spanish tapas, but also commented that Txikito’s food, from a block away, is slightly better.
Txikito is same owners, also byo friendly, cost is similar for corkage from memory. But no stems, need to bring your own.
Txikito has stems. Not great but not terrible.
Hakata Tonton corkage is $40. Pretty steep given that’s close to the average price of the bottle of wine on their list.
Noreetuh, a Hawaiian fusion place in the East Village, just announced corkage-free Sunday.