Stage House Inn

[birder53]

I received the following email from Stage House Inn. Besides the upcoming wine dinners, they have waived their corkage fees Monday thru Friday for the months of July and August.

we have some fun, recession busting events planned for this summer that you

won't want to miss...

australian wine dinner - monday june 9th at 6:30 pm

$79.00 per person

featuring the wines of kaesler vineyards

come meet the winemaker, reid basward, and taste his selection of outstanding,

award winning wines!

menu

chef's selection of passed hors d'oeuvres

old vines semillon 2001

peppercorn crusted yellowfin tuna. roasted torpedo shallots, fingerling

potatoes, green asparagus jus

avignon red 2001

smoked leg of duck confit, black eyed peas and hickory bacon compote, corn

broth, mexican cilantro

cabernet sauvignon 2001

braised short ribs, grilled red onion, tomato confit

old bastard 2001

chocolate savarin, cherry gelee, shiraz reduction, fresh cherry ice cream

the bogen 2001

and on june 26th...

sign up now for the wines of spain dinner

thursday, june 26th, 2003

6:30PM tapas bar in the chef's herb garden!!

7:15 PM four course tasting menu

$89.00 per person

menu to follow...

don't miss this very unusual and interesting event

summer events

bring your own wine

every tuesday we wave the corkage fee

during the months of july and august the corkage fee will be

waved every day, monday through friday.

daily market menu

beginning july 1st and continuing through the

end of august, the stage house restaurant will offer

a new dinner market menu for only twenty nine dollars.

the stage house continues its special nineteen dollar market prix fixe menu for

lunch:

both menus are offered monday through friday

reservations can be made on line at stagehouserestaurant.com

under "make reservations" or by calling 908.322.4224 ext. 3.

www.stagehouserestaurant.com

Stage House Inn is located at:

366 Park Avenue

Scotch Plains NJ 07076

Phone: 908.322.4224 Fax: 908.322.4225

Did you know that you can make reservations for Stage House Inn at

http://www.OpenTable.com/single.asp?ID=946

Click on the link below for driving directions:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&...z=Scotch+Plains

+NJ+07076&Get+Map=Get+Map

[menton1]

According to Rosie, corkage fees are ILLEGAL in New Jersey. So how can they waive an illegal fee?

[tommy]

According to Rosie, corkage fees are ILLEGAL in New Jersey.  So how can they waive an illegal fee?

no, corkage fees are legal in jersey, as long as you have a license to sell liquor. here's a thread on which i'm hoping we compile facts and discussion on the laws.

Edited June 4, 2003 by tommy (log)

[Rosie]

Corkage fees are illegal if you are BYO.

[Rachel Perlow]

So, is this restaurant BYO or does it have a liquor license?

[tommy]

So, is this restaurant BYO or does it have a liquor license?

oy. it has a license. it's also widely regarded as one of the top restaurants in the state.

Edited June 4, 2003 by tommy (log)

[Rachel Perlow]

I was just asking because it wasn't made clear within the thread, tommy.

So, as a restaurant with a license, they are within their rights to charge corkage, so offering to waive the fee is a legitimate offer to benefit their customers who would prefer to bring their own wine.

[tommy]

I was just asking because it wasn't made clear within the thread, tommy.

oy rosie should have made that clear, but didn't. and i didn't either oy.

('oy' in the previous post wasn't direction towards you rachel, but rather in general that we have to rehash the ABC rules when there's a thread devoted to it. we might as well delete the thread).

Edited June 4, 2003 by tommy (log)

[menton1]

This is probably a moot issue because, if a resto has a liquor license, 99.999% of the time they are NOT going to allow you to bring your own!!

[dbrociner]

When we had the egullet lunch at An American Grill this topic came up. I remember that Lou said that they do have a corkage fee but I don't remember how much it is. He did say that he doesn't like to allow someone to bring in the wine when it is a wine that is on his list. I hope he weighs in on this topic.

[Lreda]

This is probably a moot issue because, if a resto has a liquor license, 99.999% of the time they are NOT going to allow you to bring your own!!

This is certainly not true as I have read here previously of other restaurants with a license that charge a corking fee. In addition there are places like Blue Sky & I believe Mattise that own wine stores attached to their restaurants and will serve wine. ( This is a different type of license, I own a broad C license that allow me to served alcohol and wine but cannot sell package goods.)

In addition, as I have stated before that if someone wanted to bring wine to The Grill, I would certainly allow it and base the corking fee on certain circumstances.

Just ask Viejo

[viejo majadero]

In addition, as I have stated before that if someone wanted to bring wine to The Grill, I would certainly allow it and base the corking fee on certain circumstances. 

Just ask Viejo

I can confirm that I was in the certain circumstances category.

I also concur that many restaurants that sell wine allow corkage.

I personally seek out BYO's over non because I have a large wine collection. It behooves those places that sell wine, and want my business and the business of those similar to me, to make it clear that they do corkage as well. The John Foy day Sonoma Grill for example made it well known that corkage was acceptable. It was printed on his menu along with a cute formula as to what he would charge. No one would deny he had a large and deep selection.

Viejo