Peter May wrote:Vin Pina wrote: I want to know exactly which restaurants allow BYO in the Portland, OR area. However, it sounds like no such list exists. You just have to wing it and ask each and every restaurant, is what you're saying?
Your second post asked, as I read it, about restaurants that allowed you to bring in your own wines
without paying corkage.
Don't know about that but in past week we have been bringing our own wine to dinner in a hotel restaurant with airs and paying $15 corkage, in a branch of Elmers they first had to ask the manageress and search out a corkscrew but it was just $5.
Paying corkage when you're not buying wine from them seems only fair.
Just ask.
Thanks for the note. I'm not asking about fairness or willingness to pay a corkage fee. I'm only asking if there is a list of BYO restaurants with zero corkage (I'll take a list with corkage fees also). Fairness, in Peter's words, implies a restaurant where they have liquor for sale. That was not my question. My question was far more general. So, the word fair is not relevant to my question. if there is a list of BYO restaurants in Portland (with or without corkage), as I asked, great. If not, that's ok too.
FYI, La Sirene in NY, or Yama in Wellesley, to name just two of many, promote BYO with zero corkage fee. Should I ask them "is that fair." No, as it is not relevant. As an aside, I tip them handsomely for their food service.