BYOB restaurants

[MrChad]

I've been to A in NYC.

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/a/

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zolty
Weird I guess I have never seen one because I won't move to a dry county / area ever.

There are reasons for BYOB other than being in a dry county. Liquor licenses can be limited in numbers and very expensive to obtain. Some places have kind of stupid laws about the mixing of alcohol and nude women. You may be able to have topless + beer or fully nude w/ no alcohol served, but BYOB is allowed. Some places allow you to bring your own wine, because it's impossible for them to carry every variety you might want.

 

[oiprocs]

Definitely a great idea. You'll spend more on food without worry 'bout booze.

 

[spidey07]

http://www.google.com/search?q...z=1B2DVFC_enUS221US221

Looks to be extremely common

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: mugs
The only ones I've been to had dim lights and only served pretzels.

No legs and eggs special?

 

[Taughnter]

As many people have pointed out, there are a plethora of BYOB restaurants in NJ. State law actually allows for any unlicensed (that is, no liquor license) restaurant to permit their patrons to consume beer or wine. The restaurant MAY provide ice, glasses, etc. but may NOT charge a corkage fee. Of course, the restaurants are still responsible for checking IDs and individual towns may impose stricter limits if they wish. Generally speaking, many restaurants allow BYOB simply because many towns in NJ have pretty strict requirements for obtaining a liquor license as well as a limit to the amount of licenses in the town. The biggest restriction is usually a minimum distance required between two establishments with licenses. New restaurants often don't even have the option of getting a license, so they allow BYOB in order to stay competitive. In the past couple of months some establishments WITH licenses have begun to allow BYOB without corkage fees due to the economy.

 

[judasmachine]

You can always hide a flask in your purse/pocket.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I just found out these actually exist. Anyone ever been to one?

Absolutely, great Pizza place in Flower Mound (N Dallas suburb) that was BYOB, Palio's.

Originally posted by: ElFenix
yes

salt lick in driftwood, tx (just south of austin)

people will bring their own keg

Also incredible. All you can eat meat plus BYOB = win.

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Platypus
There are tons of BYOB places all over Chicago, even shithole dives

I enjoy them, aside from one thing. The ones that do NOT have a liquor license (because they didn't pay up with the right people in Chicago) should not charge you a corking fee. I can understand the fee if the restaurant already serves liquor as they're losing a ton of profit that way, but fuck the ones that charge you yet provide no alternative. They're few and far between but they exist.

Bring Your Own Cork?

And drink it out of the bottle?

Well if you're going to go to the trouble to bring your own chilled fucking wine, you'd think considering to bring glasses wouldn't be unreasonable.

Besides, hell yeah why not? A bottle per person isn't a bad thing. You can even share a single bottle with your special hunnybun and not worry about germs and cooties :heart:

BYOB places typically have wine glasses for you.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
I used to live in a dry city in texas.
there were several restaurants that were BYOB/BYOW.

This is how dry towns get around it...it's very popular.

A lot of private 'clubs' are BYOB. The better ones actually have a bottle service.

With bottle service they store your drinks and serve them for you.

In Japan bottle clubs are popular as well.

When not needed though most restaurants would rather sell you the booze, mark up is insane and it's almost all profit.

 

[Kanalua]

I think in places that restrict the number of liquor licenses, that's more common. Plenty of Resturant's here are BYOB, a waiting their liquor license, or have an establishment that would never qualify or justify the expense of a liquor license...

Some people prefer the BYOB places because the alcohol is cheaper and you get exactly what you want...

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I just found out these actually exist. Anyone ever been to one?

yes.

and they rock me hard.

very common in Chicago.

 

[techs]

I think its a great idea to Bring Your Own Bacon.

 

[beat mania]

The only one I've been to was because the owner is a muslim and won't serve alcohol.
But there was a liquor store right next door

 

[herm0016]

the nudey places are byob...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: beat mania
The only one I've been to was because the owner is a muslim and won't serve alcohol.
But there was a liquor store right next door

that makes no sense really though...if he was the owner and wanted no alcohol, why let you bring it in...

I think even if he was muslim he didn't want to buy the license.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: beat mania
The only one I've been to was because the owner is a muslim and won't serve alcohol.
But there was a liquor store right next door

that makes no sense really though...if he was the owner and wanted no alcohol, why let you bring it in...

I think even if he was muslim he didn't want to buy the license.

In my experience Muslim owners just don't want to profit or deal with alcohol, what you want to do is up to you.

 

[DrPizza]

Plenty of places in Western NY are byob. I generally don't though.

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I just found out these actually exist. Anyone ever been to one?

yeah, great place in Western Massachusetts, the best cajun restaurant in the north apparently, is BYOB.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: MrMatt

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I just found out these actually exist. Anyone ever been to one?

yeah, great place in Western Massachusetts, the best cajun restaurant in the north apparently, is BYOB.

Big Mamou? It is good.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Aren't most restraunts like that?

No...

are you being serious?

you bring your own booze/bottle into any restaurant?

A ton of restaurants will let you bring your own bottle of wine. They'll just charge a "corking fee" from 10 to 20+ dollars. These are generally nicer restaurants.

Also they're letting people take home a bottle of wine purchased at the restuarant. Say you order a bottle and only have half of it, you can take the rest with you. Not letting people take the wine that was left only encouraged them to finish every last drop because they paid for it.

there are some nice restaurants in california that let you bring your own wine and do not charge a corkage fee.