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Welcome to No Corkage Fees!
Written by Web Master   
Friday, 14 December 2007

Welcome to No Corkage Fees . com !!

We have created the NoCorkageFee.com site as a resource for any and all lovers of wine and food who occasionally (or all the time) like to take their own personal wine selections to their favorite and or new restaurants, bars and clubs. 

We have nothing against corkage fees per se, but we especially like venues that occasionally, if not always, do not charge corkage fees. We understand that some venues feel as though they need to offset some potential losses due to those of us who like to bring their own wine but, over time we would like to think that this site might help encourage some venue owners and managers to rethink and or modify the corkage fee policies to encourage people to bring in their own wines and spend more on food, desserts and other beverages.

We thank you for visiting our site and hope you become an active member. We greatly encourage our members to post listings of their favorite venues and note the venues corkage fees and policies. Some venues offer One-for-One corkage, whereby if you buy one of their, they waive the corkage fee for yours. We think One-for-Ones are a great compromise, in that it allows for experimentation and guaranteed results, all at the same sitting.

As a visitor, you can search and browse our Directory but, to contribute to the directory and gain access to our forums and other features and special offers, we do ask you to register. It only takes a few moments and we do not share your information with anyone, without your advanced permission. 

 If you are the owner or manager of a venue listed here or not and would either like to add, correct or modify the listings here for your venue, please send and e-mail to ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and we will make any and all corrections, as needed.

If you are a new member or thinking about becoming a member and you have questions and or comments of any kind, please feel free to e-mail us ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and let us know what is on your mind. We want to make NoCorkageFees.com as fun and useful a site for everyone and appreciate your input.

Cheers for now,
Mike & Hillary

 

 
Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
 
Taming of the screw
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 29 June 2007
Taming of the screw
Diners and restaurateurs alike are confounded by corkage fees

Amanda Gold, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, April 6, 2006

When Craig Stoll decided to prohibit diners from bringing their own wines into his Pizzeria Delfina, he didn't think he was doing anything newsworthy.

Was he ever wrong.

Just ask the angry pack of wine-toting customers huddled on the sidewalk outside Stoll's San Francisco pizzeria on a Friday night after they were told they'd have to leave their bottles at the door.

Sure, it's just a pizza place, and with a very reasonably priced wine list. Yet the backlash that ensued when Pizzeria Delfina opened in July 2005 with its don't-bring-your-own-bottle policy shows that the ability to take one's own wine into Bay Area restaurants has become as commonplace -- and accepted -- as sharing plates. It also spotlighted the dilemma restaurateurs face when they create their BYOB policies -- and few Bay Area restaurants don't allow the practice.

Restaurants charge what's called a "corkage" fee to open and serve the wines brought in by patrons, but corkage doesn't make up for lost sales from the restaurants' wine lists, or the resources it takes to pour customers' wines. BYOB also shows a disregard, restaurateurs say, for the wine program they have carefully crafted to match their cuisine and atmosphere.

While it's up to individual restaurateurs to set their corkage fees -- or as Pizzeria Delfina has done, ban corkage altogether -- the ambiguity of corkage policies has created heated debate among restaurateurs and their customers.

For some consumers, taking a bottle to dinner might be considered a necessity; high markups and/or limited wine list selections encourage them to bring wine from home. The amount they pay for this privilege -- usually between $15 and $25 in the Bay Area -- is often less than the amount spent ordering from the list.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 April 2008 )
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Corkage for Dummies
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Friday, 29 June 2007
Wine editor Lettie Teague tells how to bring your own bottle to a restaurant without feeling embarrassed or annoying the sommelier.

By Lettie Teague

While I would never think of lugging my own linens to a restaurant or supplying my own stemware, I have been known to bring along a bottle of my own wine. In fact, I'll go out of my way to patronize a place with a friendly corkage policy. (Corkage is what restaurateurs call what they charge to open and serve your wine.)

It's not that I'm cheap (although I'll admit I take a 400 percent markup on Pinot Grigio more personally than most) or that I don't respect the hard work (and money) that goes into making a great wine list. It's just that sometimes I want to drink one of the hundreds of wines gathering dust in my basement with a meal that isn't homemade no offense to my husband, the family chef. Add special occasions like birthdays and dinners with our friend The Collector (a lawyer who pulls bottles of La Mouline from his pockets the way others do mints) and I'd guess I bring wine to restaurants about three times a month.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 30 June 2007 )
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