Restaurants with free (or cheap) corkage?

[arlenemae]

After being delighted to learn that Five (Scott Howard's new restaurant in Berkeley) does not charge any corkage, I'm wondering if people know of any other restaurants in the Bay Area that have free or cheap (<$10) corkage. So far I only know of the following...

Five (Berkeley) - FREE
Los Altos Grill (Los Altos) - FREE
Fish & Farm (SF) - $5

I got a bunch of bottles in my wine fridge that I would love to try soon. Usually when I open a special bottle, I try to cook something that would go with it, but sometimes I'm just lazy and would prefer to just sit down and have a professional do it for me. :-)

Does anyone know of any other nice restaurants with <$10 corkage?

[beerandpork]

Checked out Weird Fish tonight with a couple friends, and the corkage was $0/bottle and $2/glass. I'm assuming this means a flat $2 fee per person drinking wine, but didn't ask. At any rate, sounds like a good deal.

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Weird Fish
2193 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110

[adamshoe]

Taylor's Automatic refresher- $1.00 corkage!!! adam

[Glencora]

Rendez-Vous Cafe Bistro in Albany -- no corkage on Sunday.

[DandySF]

Houston's in San Francisco has free corkage. It's affiliated with the Rutherford Grill in Napa.

http://thesluicebox.blogspot.com/

[Robert Lauriston]

If Fish & Farm hasn't changed, corkage is $5 for California wines, $10 for others.

[Joel]

Toast in Novato:
Always free corkage.
My review: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/646734

and here's a link to the previous thread on "no corkage":
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/492059

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Toast
5800 Nave Dr, Novato, CA 94949

[vulber]

In wine Country; The Girl and the Fig in Glen Ellen (not sure about the Sonoma location); Flatiron Grill in Calistoga (food is decent, but nothing special); Bleaux Magnolia (overpriced), Rutherford Grill (haven't been, but hear unanimously positive things)

those are all free

[bbulkow]

The glen ellen location is called the fig cafe.
In bold print they state they will not open more than one bottle per person.
http://www.thegirlandthefig.com/html-...

[adamshoe]

I thought Rutherford Grill waived the cork fee for Local (Napa) wines only. I could be completely wrong about this, too. adam

[wolfe]

Last years corkage thread for Napa.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/537195

[tvham]

Fog City Diner - never a corkage fee.

Can someone confirm that Poc Chuc is indeed BYOB?

[grayelf]

When we went on one of our trips last year, Poc Chuc was what we call unlicensed in Vancouver. Of course, here that means no alcohol allowed on the premises :-).

[Robinez]

http://www.thedeliciouslife.com/2009/...

Hi,

I like this blog and remembered the article.Hope it helps.

Take care,Robin

[skwid]

Don't know how long they are doing this, but Lavenda in Palo Alto was charging 25 cents for corkage back in May/June.