On Jun 3, 3:07*pm, Ed Rasimus > wrote:
> 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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> >> >> >> --
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.

And Tomasitas isn't open on Sunday. Great call on La Boca. Very
authentic tapas and good but not cheap wine list.