California Grill Corkage Fee

[amytracy]

Are you allowed to bring your own wine to California Grill? Is there a corkage fee?
If unknown, what is the best way to receive an answer to this question? Is there a direct number available to the restaurant?

 

[Mac4life30]

Why would you go to the California Grill and take your own wine

I can understand anywhere else but why here.

Take your own cork and have the wine at a lounge or at a nice spot. Perhaps like the Wilderness Lodge or the Beach the Poly perhaps even the Boardwalk.

 

[vettegirl]

Since alcohol is served there I highly doubt you could bring your own wine. I am sure it would violate Florida laws to do so.

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[Mac4life30]

I don't think she will violate any laws I have brought wine to Boma and it was fine.

 

[ElizabethB]

Here is a thread on corkage and fees at certain WDW restaurants. It suggests that it is permitted at numerous restaurants, including V&A, but not California Grill (at least prior to the re-do).

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3129004&highlight=corkage

And, another one:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3073142&highlight=corkage

A search likely will turn up others.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Why would you go to the California Grill and take your own wine

Sometimes people want a special wine that they like.

Also sometimes it is cheaper to bring your own, even if you pay corkage.

 

[rwdavis2]

Sometimes people want a special wine that they like.

Also sometimes it is cheaper to bring your own, even if you pay corkage.

Correct. Corkage is quite common on the West Coast. Wine prices at California Grill are atrocious. Usually 3-4 times retail prices. I despise spending as much or more on wine as I do on the food.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

. . . Usually 3-4 times retail prices. I despise spending as much or more on wine . . .

1) I agree.
2) Paying $6-$7 for a bottle of Ripple or Boone's Farm at an eatery is outrageous.
3) Bring your own and save $3-$5 per quart.

 

[rwdavis2]

I am sure it would violate Florida laws to do so.

I did a little research and restaurants in Florida do corkage. It's up to each individual place to allow it and what to charge. Some may say it's against the law but that appears to not be true.

http://www.gobyo.com/popup.php?act=regulation&ls_id=27

 

[vettegirl]

Thank you for sharing the clarification on the law, I know here Texas it's a little different if a restaurant has a beer/wine license

 

[amytracy]

I called Disney Dining and corkage is not allowed at California Grill.

 

[asc]

I called Disney Dining and corkage is not allowed at California Grill.

but allowed at several other places.

i have BYOW'd some very special bottles from time to time at Citricos, Artist Point and V&A's over the years.

i have also BYO'd at flying fish.

i want to say it was about 2004 or 2005 that they rolled out BYOW at many disney restaurants. just a vague memory.

i want to say at the time, it might have been John Blazon who rolled it out when he was wine director at WDW.

http://www.winespectator.com/restaurants/search

you can search here for those that allow. the corkage fee should also be listed.

 

[asc]

Correct. Corkage is quite common on the West Coast. Wine prices at California Grill are atrocious. Usually 3-4 times retail prices. I despise spending as much or more on wine as I do on the food.

i noticed a few bottles on their list were only 2 times my mailing list prices.

for example, i once saw some older vintages of saxum on their list for just marginally above what i currently pay for the current vintage of the same wine off the mailer...

you can generally ask them to send you the list in advance and then do your research.

i have also found that the cheaper the wine, the higher the mark up.

note, this was pre-renovation so perhaps things have changed.

 

[btk2333]

wine laws are funny- for example here in Iowa if you buy a bottle of wine with dinner you can take it home, the restaurant just has to put it in a sealed ziplock bag for you