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RE: How much will you pay for restaurant corkage?

Posted by Inmate51 on May 5, 2015 at 09:46:09:
$10 max. Otherwise, I'll drink Scotch or a Black Russian, or water, or maybe I'll buy something from their list by the glass.

I think it's common knowledge that restaurants, especially the more upscale ones, mark up their wines by a pretty hefty amount. That's why I rarely buy a bottle from them.

Go ahead, call me a wine snob. ;)

Fortunately, our favorite restaurant doesn't charge us anything when we bring our own wine.

I think you made a tactical error in paying the $40 corkage fee. Your cost was $63 for one bottle. Had you bought their wine for $65, and kept your $23 bottle, your average cost per bottle would have been $44 - much more 'palatable' in my book. (Also, remind me not to go to that restaurant!)

:)