L’artusi in the west village has a $25 corkage but has a great private room and will work with you on the on the corkage if you plan on bringing lots of bottles. They have done a flat $25 per person fee in the past regardless of number of bottles.
Also, if looking for a private room event, the BLT group restaurants have been very willing to work with us as long as we can meet the room food and beverage minimum. We have byo’d 6L and 9L bottles before for no corkage.
Last I checked it was a limit of 2 bottles per table. Can still be worth it.
La Silhouette - $40 corkage. Free corkage on Monday nights.
Food is quite good and the somm is great - Ryan Mills-Knapp who most recently worked at Tribeca Grill and Corton.
very good dinner and great wine service. nice stems, decanters
Also enjoyed a couple of dinners at this restaurant before. Good to know that they have free corkage on Monday nights.
Ramon,
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Yep … and my local Chinese and pizza delivery places can confirm that, too.
Quoted over the phone:
MIllesime – $30
Recette – $20
Novita – $28.
Brought a bottle of 2004 Ridge Grenache to Kaz An Nou in Prospect Heights last night. Unbelievable restaurant. Cozy, romantic, byob (although lousy stemware), and delicious food. It’s a French-Caribbean spot, cash only, but very affordable.
Brought a bottle of 2004 Ridge Grenache to Kaz An Nou in Prospect Heights last night. Unbelievable restaurant. Cozy, romantic, byob (although lousy stemware), and delicious food. It’s a French-Caribbean spot, cash only, but very affordable.
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Jeanne & Gaston in Chelsea, a freshly-opened French bistro with menu that’s skewed towards rich Burgundy dishes is currently offering $20 unlimited-bottles corkage as liquor license is still pending. I was there for dinner last Friday and had a good Tarte Flambee and Boeuf Bourguignon. Friendly chef/owner but with a few opening week misses on the staff service that are tolerable and understandable at this point (at least to me and my party). OK stems.
that’s pretty funny since BYO is illegal unless you have a license.
Not that funny because the owner apparently already has license to serve alcoholic beverages and allow BYOB in another restaurant that he owns/operates in the city. Having that license permits the owner, with an additional fee, “to furnish alcoholic beverages allowed by their license at events located off the licensed premises”.
interesting. so you read that to mean that if you have 1 restaurant with a license then you can apply that license to all other restaurants owned by you?
Just went with what the maitre’d said over the phone when I called for reservation and inquired about their wine list and he advised me to bring my own bottles if I want to have wines with my food.
Let’s just say that I‘ll leave it to you to get hung up over restaurant byob practices in NYC and I’ll just bring ‘em when they tell me that I can bring ‘em.
BYO is the only way to go if there is no license. Done it plenty of times.
Please start a thread in the forum of your choice.
The main purpose of this thread is BYO.
Updated. Let me know if I left something out. If you don’t have the website information of the restaurant, please mention it’s location.
I was told that purchasing wine from the folks at Brooklyn Fare will start at $50/bottle. Newly implemented corkage: $70/bottle.
Never, ever go to apiary for monday night BYOB. Worst wine service ever.