Where can I bring my own wine in Arlington?

[Epicuriean Bostonian]

I have a date with a really cute red head this week and would like to pick a restaurant where I can bring some wine for the occasion. Does anyone have some suggestions in the Arlington area? Also for future reference, what places allow you to do this in D.C.?

[Pool Boy]

Virginia laws prohibit restaurants with liquor licenses to allow BYOW (except, I think, in private dining situations). However, there are a great number of restaurants in Washington DC that allow this. Most of them, in fact. Just pick the DC restaurant and give them a call, chances are they will allow it for $15 to $30 corkage fee per bottle.

[Meg]

There's an excellent Vietnamese Restaurant in Arlington that allows you to bring your own wine. It's a stand alone on Wash. Blvd. (I think). I'll check on the name and report back.

[Meg]

It's called Little Saigon. Correction, it's technically Falls Church, on Wilson Blvd. on the border of Arlington. My brother, who's utlra serious about both wine and food, loves this place. I went once and really enjoyed it. If I remember correctly, their corkage fee is minimal. Sounds like they may be breaking the law, so I suppose I shouldn't be advertising this!

[chriscatva]

Um, yeah, they are breaking the law. See ABC 4.1-315:
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp5...

[monavano]

AFAIK, there is NO byob in VA. Here's a close second which is nearby-Evening Star in Del Ray allows you to buy wines from their adjacent store, Planet Wine for a very low fee over the store price.
Please to call them to confirm, but I believe they still do this.
http://www.dcfoodies.com/2006/10/even...

[jaydreb]

I believe Tallulah is also adjacent to a Planet Wine and may have a similar offer.

[monavano]

Same restaurant group, but Tallulah is in Arlington.

[ktmoomau]

In DC I believe Charlie Palmer will allow you to bring wine, I don't know there exact corckage fees and policy. I thought it was something like maximum 2 bottles of domestic wine will have no corckage fee?

I thought Dino might allow corckage, but I am really unsure about that one.

[Pool Boy]

Charlie Palmer indeed does allow you to BYOW with zero corkage fees, limit 2 bottles of DOMESTIC wine per table. Dino also allows BYOW, with a reasonable corkage fee (I think it is $20).