BYOB doesn’t mean you’re a cheap monster. You just want to feel European, sipping endless notes of gooseberry and forest floor and barnyard and pencil shaving (note: all real tasting words) from the bottle you carefully selected at Trader Joe’s. Or perhaps you have a ’61 Château Latour lying around and just need a quick bread basket to go with it. For all the nights you’re not sipping $15 cucumber gimlets to block out the impending doom of the civilized world (RIP: democracy), pick up a bottle (or three) and tuck in to one of these BYOB spots.
1. Bottega Louie
Downtown
Free corkage on first bottle
2. Water Grill
Santa Monica & Downtown
Free corkage on first bottle
3. Fritto Misto
Santa Monica
$2.50 Corkage per person
4. Courtyard Kitchen
Santa Monica
No Corkage Fee
5. Pitfire Pizza
Multiple
No Corkage Fee
6. Providence
Hollywood
No corkage on Mondays
7. Hillstone
Santa Monica
No Corkage Fee
8. Duke’s Malibu
Malibu
Wednesday No Corkage Fee, free corkage nightly on local Malibu wines
9. Open Sesame
WeHo
$15 Corkage Fee
10. Drago Centro
Downtown
No Corkage on Sundays or 20% off any bottle from wine list
11. Red O
West Hollywood
No Corkage on Mondays
12. Il Forno
Santa Monica
No Corkage Monday – Wednesday
13. Maré
Melrose
$10 Corkage Fee
14. The Hart & The Hunter
West Hollywood
No Corkage on Tuesday