On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 08:43:05 -0700 (PDT), lleichtman
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>On Jun 2, 2:43*pm, Ed Rasimus > wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:07:06 -0700 (PDT), lleichtman
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>> >On Jun 2, 9:27*am, Ed Rasimus > wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 07:21:14 -0700 (PDT), lleichtman
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>> >> >On Jun 2, 5:49 am, "st.helier" > wrote:
>> >> >> "lleichtman" wrote in message .....
>> >> >> >>On Jun 1, 12:03 pm, Earle Jones wrote:
>> >> >> >> Most good restaurants derive a good bit of their revenue from wine sales
>> >> >> >> and therefore charge a corkage fee for those customers who bring their
>> >> >> >> own wine.
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>> >> >> >> One waiter told me that their corkage fee was $15. He also said that
>> >> >> >> there was no corkage fee if the customer brought a screw-top bottle.
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>> >> >> >> But there is a $15 screwage fee.
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>> >> >> > I would gladly pay a corkage fee but it isn't allowed in the New
>> >> >> > Mexico so I'm stuck with whatever is on the wine list and often at 3
>> >> >> > times retail not wholesale.
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>> >> >> ???? Larry, I am confused???
>> >> >> What do you mean "it isn't allowed"
>> >> >> Are you saying that there is a law against BYO restaurants in New Mexico?
>> >> >> Therefore, if I decided to open a restaurant in Albuquerque, some lawmaker
>> >> >> could dictate whether or not I could let my customers bring their own wine
>> >> >> while I reserve the right to charge a corkage fee???
>> >> >> And I thought that the USA was the home of free-enterprise!!!!!
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>> >> >> st.helier
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>> >> >Yep, State law prevents bringing your own bottle to a restaurant.
>> >> >Don't know why. I can't get any rational explanation. It protects
>> >> >restaurants but allows them to charge ridiculous prices. You can,
>> >> >however, walk out of the restaurant with an open bottle you bought!!
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>> >> Alcohol laws remain largely state-by-state, which can be very good or
>> >> very bad, depending upon the state. Over the last fifty years the
>> >> trend has been favorable and each election more areas go "wet" and
>> >> there is better availability.
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>> >> As I recall, when I lived in NM (long ago, galaxy far away), you could
>> >> "brown-bag" beer and wine if a restaurant did not have a liquor
>> >> license. If they did, however, then you had to buy their offerings.
>> >> There also were beer/wine licenses and full-service licenses.
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>> >> Total licenses for the state were fixed in number, so to open a new
>> >> facility with a license you had to find a license holder willing to
>> >> sell his license. Made for a very lucrative market and often the
>> >> license was worth multiple times what the entire business was worth.
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>> >> Worst state I ever lived in for alcohol laws was Alabama, but that was
>> >> thirty five years ago. Colorado was excellent except for no beer sales
>> >> in grocery stores on Sunday before noon. Texas is rapidly reaching
>> >> into the 20th century with few dry counties remaining and even Dallas
>> >> expanding the wet precincts last election.
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>> >> Federalism reigns and I still like it better than having the feds
>> >> involved.
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>> >You can no longer brown bag beer or wine to any restaurant liquor
>> >license or not.
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>> Well, I'll be in Santa Fe for a week, in about ten days. Inn of the
>> Anasazi and some very fine dining on the agenda. No brown bags in my
>> future.
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>> Skipping the Compound and Geronimo this vist, but will do Anasazi,
>> Coyote Cafe (new management last year and back to the glory days!),
>> Ristra and 315 Wine Bar.
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>> Anybody got other favorites?
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>The O eating house in Pojoaque has excellent Mediterranean style food
>and an excellent and reasonably priced wine list. Coyote has certainly
>made a comeback with Eric Destefano in charge. I also really like
>Galisteo Bistro on Gallisteo street.

It's amazing that Destefano doesn't have a coronary in the kitchen. At
Geronimo you didn't see him, but at Coyote with the open kitchen it's
tough to miss.

We generally stay right downtown, so O will be missed. For Spanish we
really liked La Boca last time we were in town. Pretty close to
authentic Spanish tapas. And, they introduced me to albarino. A
win-win!

Might be able to squeeze Galisteo Bistro in to the mix, but there is
also the mandatory visit to Tomasita's and I've only got four days of
gluttony available.