travel and BYOB dining
 

business now takes me on the road more often.
my wife and I enjoy BYOB dining (you know where you bring your own bottle)
I'd be interested in hearing of BYOB places that you may know....
all types of cuizine and no town is too small, as I end up going to lots of out of the way places.....

Bob

Sign up for www.erobertparker.com

They have a forum for this very topic.

Welcome to Flyertalk nevadabob.

I think my favorite BYOB place here in Houston is Collina's. They have (I think) four locations and I know two are strictly BYOB (one because of the school district's building across the street [Richmond Ave.] and the other because that part of town is dry [the Heights]). I've only paid the $1.00/person corkage at the Heights location.

My favorite BYOB place of past was East Park Grill in Worcester, MA. It closed down about ten years ago but it was, as I said, BYOB and cash only. The plates were about $10 and the food was great. They had a dip for your fresh italian bread that was to die for....it was so d@mn good.

BYOB in the Great Outdoors...
 

This is kind of a "BYOB" in a natural setting... This past weekend my spouse and I spend a long weekend in San Luis Obispo, in California's Central Coast wine growing area. On Sunday, a beautiful, warm and sunny day, we packed a small picnic of a fresh bakery baguette from Soleri's Bakery, a hunk of local cheese, some fresh local peaches & figs and a bottle of Calera 1996 Pinot Noir Reed, and went a few miles up the Coast to Morro Bay and sat on the Pacific side of Morro Rock, enjoying that wonderful wine and picnic, watching the surfers and the sea life. What a day! ^

BYOB dining? How positively revolting and low class! :eek:

But I guess I've done this when eating at Taco Bell drinking my own Colt 45 malt liquor and wearing one of my tank-top t-shirts, flip-flops, and cut-off jeans :D

M8

Very common in Texas because of the prevelance of dry counties. At least you can drink a nice wine at a decent price. I am so sick of place like Mortons charging you $100 for a wine you can buy for $20 in the grocery store.

My favorite is just outside of Dallas, to the north of the race track. It is called the Ranchman Cafe in Ponder, Texas. The town has a population of maybe 50. The steaks are excellant (Porter house), and everything is homemade (really homemade).

When I was little (the 70's), it use to take about 3 hours to make your meal because the owner/cook did each order one at a time from scratch and they actually had an outhouse for the facilities. Now it is a lot faster and they have indoor plumbing. Good idea to call your order in advance and make reservations. But when we go we are not in any hurry.

They sit the locals in the front and at the counter, and they have the addition in the back for out of towners.

Look up Ponder on Map quest, you can not miss the restaurant. Also, the bank next door, now out of business, was robbed by bonnie and clyde. They still have bullet holes in the walls. Last time a noticed, the Bank made cowboy boots to order.

IF you want to go back to Texas in the 1920's go to Ponder.

Save room for their homemade pies.

They are more modern, here is the link:

http://www.ranchman.com/

If we dined and you brought a 1999 Screaming Eagle Cab, I guarantee I would definitely not think you revolting or low class. ;)

Very common in Australia to do BYOB as many places don't have licenses to sell but can open and serve your bottle.

In the US, most any place will allow you to bring your own generally providing it's not on their wine list, it's not something low-class and revolting like 2 Buck Chuck or equivalent, you pay their corkage (which is something like $75 or more at French Laundry, but more like $15 or $20 at moderate restaurants), and you share with the wine steward. (That last part is just good manners, and depending on the wine, could get your corkage waived.)

thanks for the info....I'll be sure to add to my TX list of byob dining.....

thanks for the info, two more states and good places to eat and drink....
my family lives in CT so I'll try the east park grill next time I am that way.....

Bob

thanks for the info....
I signed up for their free trial but could not find the forum or byob under their search engine.....
I'll look around some more....
Bob

For years one of the highest Zagat rated restaurant chains in Los Angeles, has been Cafe Bizou. In addition true great and inexpensive food, they have a $2 corkage charge. Everybody BYOB's (although they do have wines available, at acceptable prices).

www.cafebizou.com

Locations in Sherman Oaks and Pasadena. Reservations are generally necessary.

I should have been more clear...East Park is long gone....I think it closed 10 years ago.

It only goes to show that a snooty mindset might make you miss out some wonderful dining experiences. :rolleyes:

Should you ever visit Philadelphia ( a city many foodies claim is a somewhat undiscovered dining mecca) you will find tons of very good restaurants, some of the city's best which are BYOB. The number of such places make that city unique among most other cities, at least in NA.

After one " retracts one's nose from out the clouds" :D
They can check out chowhound.com or e-gullet.com for others who have enjoyed such eateries.

mike

Moi? Never! :D Besides I did say in my post that I take my own Colt 45 malt liquor to the my local Taco Bell :D

M8