Will bringing your own bottle of wine to a restaurant in France cause bad service?

8/19/2013 8:23:42 AM

I’m French and I didn’t know about this law, nor can I find any mention of it in a casual search. This site with teaching material for the restaurant business claims the contrary:

Can we make a customer pay a supplement if he wishes to bring his own bottles?
Yes, it is possible to charge a “corkage fee” if the customer wants to be served his own bottles. The restaurant owner is free to set the amount. Restaurants are not required to accept this practice.

BYOB isn’t a known concept in France. A few restaurants are trying it out (here’s a list for Paris), sometimes with a corkage fee. But it goes strongly against the French culture — why not bring your own food while you’re at it?

If you go to a random restaurant, you should expect that they’ll say no. I doubt that they’d spit in the food (what a strange idea!), but they might ask you to leave.

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