4/6 What are people's experience with corkage? Cafe de la Paz charges
$15/750 ml bottle. Does anybody know prices from other places?
I'm specifically looking for places that host banquet dinners.
-- ulysses
\_ DUDE, you on drugs or what? $15 buys me 3 really really nice
meals at Carl's Jr. or 4 decent meals at Burger King. Gimme your
money if you have so much to waste -poor ucla student
\_ in college, my roommate and i debated on whether or not we
should invest in a pallet of topramen. If you need to understand
the scope of this... you can buy topramen in bulk at Costco for
$0.06/package. I think the cost of the pallet came down to
<$0.03/package, but mostly we thought it would be cool to have
a pallet of ramen sitting in our living room.
\_ From my general experience, $15 is about average, give or take a
buck. Restaurants usually mark up low-end bottles by $15-20.
So I figure unless the bottle I'm brining is at least in the
$50+ range, it really doesn't matter.
\_ I don't know about banquets, but it varies. Some places won't
let you cork a bottle that's on their list at all. Some places
discount corkage if you also buy a bottle from their list. Some
places have free corkage. In general, corkage is supposed to
cover the cost of the stemware and the sommelier/server. $15 is
a fair corkage fee.
\_ You can get a deal in San Francisco by going to a place that
has applied for its liquor license but doesn't have it yet.
They almost always let you bring your own vino and don't charge
corkage. Sometimes, other places with no liquor license will
just let you bring your own, too, but they tend to be lower
end places. I have never seen this in any other city.
\_ This happens in SoCal, too. It's probably common. |
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