Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man opening a bottle of wine - New Africa/Shutterstock If you've ever brought your own bottle of wine to a restaurant, you ...

New York-based Lettie Teague is a multiple James Beard Award-winning writer and author of three books on wine. She served as the wine editor at Food & Wine for over a decade before joining The Wall ...

Talia Baiocchi is the founder and general manager of Punch. She has spent her career specializing in wine, restaurants, and culture. Previously a columnist at Wine Spectator, she went on to become the ...

Here is a sampling of corkage fees and policies at a few local restaurants. All Wolfgang Puck fine-dining restaurants, including Spago and Cut in Beverly Hills and WP30 downtown: $50 per bottle with a ...

When Farmstead, a casually rustic restaurant, opened at Long Meadow Ranch Winery in St. Helena earlier this year, the owners decided to take a novel approach to corkage fees, the money restaurants ...

Approximately nine out of ten wines made in the U.S. are grown, aged, and bottled here in California. We love our wine, and our local restaurants know this, often commanding their sommeliers to ...

Have you ever been in a restaurant and noticed a couple walk in with their own bottle of wine and wonder, what's the deal? How did these people get special privileges? Are they friends of the owner?

Until last week, the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection warned present and prospective restaurant owners that — unless their restaurants had liquor licenses of their own — ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 2/3/2016, pg. A4) A story in the Eat Drink Play section about wine corkage incorrectly reported that customers who bring their own wine into restaurants cannot ...