The Best Corkage Fees in New York City

Ai Fiori has an award-winning wine list with more than 1,000 selections, but Mondays offer a reason to explore your own cellar instead. The restaurant waives corkage all day, allowing up to two bottles or one magnum per reservation. Settle into the luxurious dining room inside The Langham hotel on Fifth Avenue, and pair your wine with handmade pastas and French-Italian dishes.

When this London-born steakhouse touched down near Gramercy Park, its ice-cold martinis and dry-aged American steaks commanded attention. Mondays offer another draw: $10 corkage per bottle, available all day. Guests can bring one bottle each, with a maximum of six bottles per reservation.

This Brooklyn neighborhood pasta spot punches well above its weight when it comes to wine. But when you want to stray from the team’s extensive list, Wednesday evenings bring free corkage. For wine drinkers who don’t mind a commitment, its three-tier wine club offers producer tastings and access to an off-menu cellar list. The Premier Cru and Grand Cru memberships also include a year of free corkage.

This East Village Hawaiian spot has a following among NYC’s wine insiders, thanks to a deep list focused on France and Germany and a regular corkage fee of $30 per bottle. Sunday nights draw local sommeliers and in-the-know drinkers, when corkage drops to just $10 per bottle.

Take refuge from the Rockefeller Center crowds at Jupiter. From the team behind King, this rink-level restaurant serves handmade pastas and seasonal Italian dishes, with a generous corkage policy for enjoying your own special bottles. On Monday evenings, it waives the usual $35-per-bottle fee for up to two bottles to pair with dinner.

Tucked inside a cozy Tribeca townhouse, One White Street bridges neighborhood dining and special-occasion meals, with seasonal dishes available à la carte or as a chef’s tasting menu. Its cellar holds about 6,000 bottles from around the world, but Mondays give you a reason to open one of your own: the usual $75 corkage fee drops to $10 per bottle.