- Bottoms Up (RSS)Corkage deals in the Bay Area
By Jessica Yadegaran
Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 10:56 am in Corkheads.
Thanks to Reid Edwards’ suggestion, let’s start compiling deals we hear about low or zero corkage fees at Bay Area restaurants.
I’ll start. Khoon Chang, one of my favorite Thai restaurants in San Francisco, charges $6. I brought a special German Riesling there that my boyfriend brought back from Frankfurt recently.
The Barney’s chain, with locations in Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco, does not charge corkage. Some friends and I split the price of a fabulous Sonoma Pinot Noir at Solano Cellars in Albany once and walked across the street to the Barney’s and drank it with turkey burgers in the restaurant’s tumblers. Good times.
Recession or not, isn’t that what wine should be?
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March 1st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
La Fondue in Saratoga does no corkage nights on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays.
March 1st, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Los Altos Grill in Los Altos has No Corkage Fee ever.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Dead Fish in Crockett always offers free corkage.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Ah, yes. Thank you. And they have alligator.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Never been. Thanks for posting.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Good to know. I’m adding a new one from a reader who emailed me: The Fig Cafe in Glen Ellen. Zero corkage. Always.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Another one: Prima Ristorante in Walnut Creek isn’t offering free corkage, but Sundays throughout 2009, you pay just the retail store price for a bottle of wine from a rotating list of 75 bottles from the adjacent Prima Vini.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:38 am
In Livermore at many resturants there aren’t any corkage fees if you bring in a Livermore Valley wine.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
This is true.