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Hoke
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Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:07 am
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Vin Pina wrote:I'm looking for BYO restaurants in Portland, Oregon area. I've looked on Zagat, Yelp, Wine Spectator, and Urban Spoon with not much in the way of results.
Any suggestions?
Hoke wrote:Vin Pina wrote:I'm looking for BYO restaurants in Portland, Oregon area. I've looked on Zagat, Yelp, Wine Spectator, and Urban Spoon with not much in the way of results.
Any suggestions?
Not quite sure what you mean here, Vin. If you're looking for restaurants that are benign about bringing a special bottle in, that's pretty much every one I know. Might charge a minimal corkage fee, but maybe not if you buy another bottle.
This is considered wine country so bringing bottles in---again, for certain reasons---is de rigeur. I personally wouldn't worry about it much.
Of course if you do it because you're trying to avoid paying wine list prices, that's another thing entirely.
David M. Bueker
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Peter May
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:24 am
Snorbens, England
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?
Hoke
Achieving Wine Immortality
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Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:07 am
Portland, OR
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.
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.
David M. Bueker wrote:No idea, but hello Vin. Long time no see.
Peter May
Pinotage Advocate
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:24 am
Snorbens, England
Hoke wrote:
Did you have the German Pancakes in Elmers, Peter? It's something of a Portland tradition.
Jenise
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
The Pacific Northest Westest
Vin Pina wrote:David M. Bueker wrote:No idea, but hello Vin. Long time no see.
Good to be back! Best to you and Laura!
Jenise wrote:Vin Pina wrote:David M. Bueker wrote:No idea, but hello Vin. Long time no see.
Good to be back! Best to you and Laura!
Vin, here on the west coast there is no such list or tradition. A proprietor who knows you might not charge you corkage personally, and a Somme might not charge you if you offer him a glass of something interesting, but as others have inferred corkage in the kind of restaurant you'd want to take a bottle to is pretty much standard.
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