- Location
- London
Dining at a London restaurant in a couple of weeks time and asked what their corkage policy was.
Was sent the following response earlier today:
It is possible to bring a bottle of wine with you, the corkage starts at £35 for a regular bottle of wine or £50 for a sparkling wine, however, can go higher depending on the wine, vintage, and the procedures we have to follow whilst serving the wine.
If you have any bottle that you wish to bring with you, please don’t hesitate to send me the name and vintage and I will pass it to our sommelier team so we can have that checked for you.
I've not come across this before. In my experience of doing corkage at restaurants it's always been a flat rate (some variation on sparkling vs still wines) and that's the end of it. Is this standard practice at some establishments?
Was sent the following response earlier today:
It is possible to bring a bottle of wine with you, the corkage starts at £35 for a regular bottle of wine or £50 for a sparkling wine, however, can go higher depending on the wine, vintage, and the procedures we have to follow whilst serving the wine.
If you have any bottle that you wish to bring with you, please don’t hesitate to send me the name and vintage and I will pass it to our sommelier team so we can have that checked for you.
I've not come across this before. In my experience of doing corkage at restaurants it's always been a flat rate (some variation on sparkling vs still wines) and that's the end of it. Is this standard practice at some establishments?