Originally Posted by gutt22

I wish more restaurants would encourage customers to bring their own wines
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I know I must come off sounding like the restaurant wine Nazi, but that's just how it is for me. Most of the time, I avoid drinking when I eat out because it's just not affordable. A lot of restaurants, though, are beginning to recognize that having reasonable corkage is a good thing. I've found an increasing trend of places in Houston offering low corkage -- $7 or so. It's become a really nice thing in Napa Valley, too, where a lot of places charge $10 or $15.