We're thinking people default to Canada b/c theyre prone to bringing their own wine to places to eat. Anyone have any ideals about this practise,which many claim about taking over Montreal?Jury still out on this one so theres time to get your veiw heard.

I know the locals are doing it like crazy in California too, and even though restaurants may add $20 or more for a corkage fee on your own bottle, it still saves over the huge mark-up restaurants there do on good wines.<BR>But in Paris, it just doesn't seem logical. Restaurants really don't mark up their wine much (well, maybe the really expensive places do, but you wouldn't want to BYOB to Tallivent or somewhere anyway). In fact, I've often gone to wine stores in Paris to search for a particular wine I've had the night before in a restaurant and found the market price was higher than the restaurant price.

In Paris you can drink wine very inexpensively and som of the table wines are so good you don't need to order a bottle. <BR>But usually, isn't the reason for making a restaurant BYOB because of licensing in that city?<BR>In NYC and NJ &amp; Fla., there are limits to the number of licenses for sale of alchohol, so the restaurants, some very good, are able to make customers happy by being BYOB. Is that not the case everywhere?

In London, there are restaurants that offer BYOB with a corkage fee.(Posh restos too)

Hasn't this been done to death on the Canada forum and now on the US forum also?

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In France and in Italy it is ludicrous to BYOB. The prices for common wines are the same as retail and most of the hot producers are cheaper at the restaurants than the wine shops and those wines won't be available from the wine producers. Here in SoCal we are starting to see some restaurants get back to corkage of reasonable prices because wine lists are ridiculous. It is one thing to charge big markups on rare aged vintages but the common stuff at 5-6 times wholesale and cheap glassware to boot??

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