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Which restaurants allow you to bring your own wine?

According to Swiss James, Aimo e Nadia does.

If I remember correctly, Santorini (the Greek restaurant in Itaewon) does, too, though I could be mistaken.

So which other restaurants, if any, allow you to bring your own wine?

deeluvskitties · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: songpa-gu

i went to a nice cozy italian one called "cusvas" on exit-7 side of gangnam. corkage fee is W15 000

Troll_Bait · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

One response?

Oh, come on, people!

You're letting this thread die a slow death on the day before Valentine's Day?

Are you ... ?

- soju-drinking ajoshis?
- too cheap to buy wine?
- with so much money to burn that you're satisfied with paying for the overpriced wine in restaurants?

What?!

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

they definitely do at Aimo e Nadia- my buddy Chanyeong works there and he says some people plough through 4 bottles before he kicks them out in the early hours.
Just as well because the food is pretty expensive.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Bring your own wine is a rather rare concept. Popular as all get out in, say, Quebec, but unknown and illegal in Ontario and probably much of the rest of North America.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Xerxes · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:35 am Post subject:

The only restaurants in Korea that DON'T allow you to bring your own booze (wine or otherwise) are the Bennigans, TGIs, Outbacks or any of those "Western" restaurants. I worked at a school were the k-teachers habitually brought their own booze to any and every restaurant that they could. They even brought their own to a swank restaurant on the top of the 63 building in Yuido (with some loaded parents buying for us), and the serving girls brought out shot glasses and ice buckets for our own scotch. Granted the scotch were the really the expensive kind. If you tip the waitress before the meal (rather than after--and you have only to tip 10k to 20k won), you could bring your own case!

The k-teacher that I drank with were so brutish that they didn't even bother to tip, or did so only much later in the meal, and only then to cop a conversation with one of them to sit next to them.

The nicer Korean restaurants with the owner on the premises would be your best bet, I think. The Korean restaurants don't even know how to open a bottle of wine--let alone know anything about a "corking fee."

Slug away. BTW, you should really post here after you've had the shot or ten.

paperbag princess · Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell

jackie's kitchen in itaewon has a corkage fee of 10,000 for the first bottle and 5,000 for the rest.

their isn't alot of a lot of byow here.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

J.B. Clamence · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Troll_Bait · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

Troll_Bait · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:08 am Post subject:

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Actually, thanks to our erstwhile friend Toby, I know a superb restaurant near Seolleung station that not only allows your wine, but will sell you better wine than you brought at a "speak English for a discount" price.

PM for details. It's worth it.

Troll_Bait · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: