than stemmed glasses). The best looking coasters don’t prevent the glasses from sticking, while the ugly cork ones do. We have some wooden ones with circles carved into them which work fairly well.

I’m curious if you could get around this somehow. Could one simply offer PB&J, and cheese sandwiches? How about simply grabbing take out from elsewhere and then adding on a sort of "corking fee"?

"If you live in an area with dry humidity, consider keeping a damp sponge in the refrigerator to keep the corks from drying out." I agree in concept, but you may or may not need it in practice. Depends how full the case is and how...

minutes to receive them. When the server brought them she offered no apology. Guess we should have ordered wine. The decor was lovely and the wine by the bottle concept, where you choose off the wall and they only charge a...

) for better choices. Corks has an inviting 5 to 6pm early bird dinner. We really enjoyed the Corkscrew Swamp Reserve, about 15 miles east of Bonita Springs. Lots of birds, gators, snakes, frogs, etc for an afternoon walk. 2.25...

store such wine in a dark, relatively cool place, always away from direct sunlight and artificial heat sources. We generally store it on its side or inverted to keep the cork wet. Screwcaps are stored standing upright. As others...

dinner bill) and charge a corking fee. The though being that you paid retail for the wine, not the marked up restaurant price. Still a good deal with a $5-7 corking fee.

service here is open the wine at the bar, check if its corked, and then let you pour yourself." Wow, thought I, it looks like all the wine is still in the bottle. How do they check it? Smell the cork, which smells like cork but...

Charleston is great, but not quirky. For something more interesting, you might try Roy’s Restaurant, across the square from Charleston. Or better yet, to get “cozy” in there too, try Corks, on Federal Hill. Very...

It’s a weird concept, but as value to the consumer goes it’s ok with me. At least it’s not a BYOB place charging corkage, which i consider completely unacceptable.

-Americans that lived in the midwest for a while, so we miss traditional American cooking. I am a budding cork dork, and I have little access to California wines so a wine bar (with contemporary American food) would be good too. We...

decanting for at least half an hour and then it continues to decant as the meal progresses. But usually I bring my own wine to restaurants and if I think the wine needs some serious decaning I do that at home then pour it back...

+ main meal + sharing a dessert will cost less than $30 per person, and you have your own wine! The first time I heard "corking charge" term was in Toronto, I thought the concept was ridiculous! :)

think my stomach would have been happier if the egg was more cooked. Dessert was a chocolate cupcake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Yummy, but I would have liked a moister cupcake and less frosting. Neat concept and fun...

I ate there right after they opened and it was pretty decent. We had a nice bottle of wine (though our waitress didn’t know how to use a cork screw and the manager had to do it for her) for a resonable amount. We also had...