NYC Corkage Fees at Italian Restaurants: What's Published

Published corkage fees at Manhattan Italian restaurants run from $50 to $110 per 750ml bottle: Via Carota charges $50, L’Artusi $55 and Carbone $110, or $190 for a magnum. The other four of the seven rooms checked publish no corkage or BYOB policy at all, which is not automatically a no, so call before you arrive holding a bottle. If you don’t finish a bottle, New York’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Law lets a restaurant licensed to sell wine allow you to take one partly finished bottle home, provided you ordered a full-course meal and drank some of the bottle with it; the restaurant reseals it in a tamper-evident bag and gives you a dated receipt.

Corkage is rarely published on a restaurant’s own website. Silence usually means the policy lives at the host stand, not the homepage. The practical move: check the restaurant’s own site first, and if it says nothing, ask when you book.

Which NYC Italian Restaurants Publish a Corkage Fee?

Whether a published fee is worth paying depends on the bottle in your bag. This site’s guide to ordering wine at Italian restaurants in NYC runs that arithmetic against L’Artusi’s $55.

How These Seven Were Checked

Each restaurant’s own domain was searched in September 2026 for the terms corkage, BYOB, “bring your own bottle,” and “wine list only,” across its homepage, FAQ or questions page, menu pages, and private-dining pages where one exists. The three published fees were re-read on each restaurant’s official site in October 2026. Nothing here comes from Yelp, OpenTable, Tripadvisor, Grubhub, or a review site — those aggregators carry outdated and sometimes invented numbers, and a restaurant’s own site is the only source that counts for a live policy. Nobody was called for this piece; a phone call is the next step, not a substitute for what’s already checked.

Carbone Publishes the Most Specific Number of the Group

Carbone, at 181 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village, is the most explicit of the seven. Its own site states a corkage fee of $110 per 750ml bottle and $190 for a magnum, and asks guests bringing more than three bottles to coordinate with the reservations team first. That’s an unusually precise, tiered policy for a restaurant this size to put in writing, and it reads as a room that gets asked about corkage often enough to have standardized the answer rather than leaving it to whoever answers the phone.

Two More West Village Rooms With a Number in Writing

L’Artusi, on the West Village stretch near Hudson Street, states its fee on its own menu page: “Please note that our corkage fee is $55.” Via Carota states its policy on its own Questions page in plain terms: guests may bring a bottle of wine that isn’t already on the current wine lists for a $50 corkage fee per 750ml. Via Carota’s wording is the clearest of anything found in this research — it names the fee, the bottle size, and the one condition (not already on their list) in a single sentence, which is exactly the kind of published answer this piece went looking for.

Which Restaurants Publish No Corkage Policy?

Four of the seven say nothing at all, which is the more common outcome in this research, not the exception.

Isabelle’s Osteria, at 245 Park Avenue South between East 19th and 20th Streets in Gramercy Park, has no corkage or BYOB policy on its own site. Its menu and FAQ pages cover the dinner and lunch programs, the aperitivo hour, and private events, but corkage and bringing your own bottle don’t come up anywhere in what’s published.

I Sodi, Don Angie, and Babbo — all West Village or Greenwich Village Italian rooms with serious wine lists — publish nothing about corkage or BYOB on their own sites either. A wine list with real depth is sometimes read as a signal that a kitchen would rather sell you something from it than open your own bottle, but that’s an inference, not a published fact. The only way to know at any of these four is to ask.

What to Ask When You Call

Three questions get you an answer faster than guessing:

1. “Do you charge a corkage fee, and how much?” Ask for the number, not a yes or no — some rooms allow it but charge more than you’d expect.
2. “Is there a limit on bottles, or a night it isn’t allowed?” Carbone’s own policy caps it at three bottles before a separate conversation; other rooms may waive corkage on slow nights and refuse it on busy ones.
3. “Does the fee apply to a bottle that’s already on your wine list?” Via Carota’s own answer specifically excludes bottles already on their list — worth confirming anywhere you call, since bringing a duplicate of something they sell is the fastest way to get a no.

Ask when you book, not at the table. A restaurant that has to make a corkage decision on the spot, in front of you, is more likely to say no by default.

Bring the Bottle, or Don’t, Based on What’s Actually Written Down

Two facts settle this for most tables: whether a fee is published, and whether it applies to what you’re bringing. At Carbone, L’Artusi, and Via Carota, the number is already public — plan around it. Everywhere else checked here, including Isabelle’s Osteria, the honest answer is that nothing is posted, so the bottle goes in the bag only after a call confirms it. For more on reading a wine list once you’re seated, see this site’s guide to ordering wine at Italian restaurants in NYC, and for a related look at another policy Manhattan Italian rooms mostly don’t publish, see who actually states a bar-seating policy. The same walk-in research that turned up published seating rules is collected in where to eat Italian in Manhattan without a reservation.

The same published-versus-silent pattern shows up elsewhere in Manhattan dining. Menu pricing works the same way — see what a $38 pasta is actually paying for — and private-dining rooms have their own version of an unpublished policy, covered in why no private-dining inquiry form asks about allergies.

Corkage policies checked September 2026, read directly from each restaurant’s own website; the Carbone, L’Artusi and Via Carota fees were re-read on their official sites in October 2026. Policies change without notice — confirm by phone before you bring a bottle.

Frequently asked questions

Is it rude to ask a restaurant about corkage before you book?

No — asking ahead is the version of this question that restaurants actually prefer. A corkage question sprung on a host at 7:45 on a Saturday competes with seating a full room; the same question asked when you book, or in a call earlier that day, gives the restaurant time to check with the kitchen or the wine director if the policy isn’t posted. Most of the restaurants checked here have no published stance either way, which means the person answering the phone is your actual source, not the website. Framing it as a direct, specific question — the fee, the limit, whether it applies to bottles already on the list — gets a faster and more useful answer than asking generally whether BYOB is “allowed.”

How much is a typical corkage fee in NYC?

Among the seven Manhattan Italian restaurants checked here, published corkage fees run from $50 per 750ml bottle at Via Carota to $110 at Carbone, with L’Artusi at $55. Carbone charges $190 for a magnum. The other four publish no fee at all, so the only way to know there is to ask.

Can you BYOB at Italian restaurants in NYC?

Sometimes, for a fee. Carbone, L’Artusi and Via Carota each publish a corkage fee for bringing your own bottle, and Via Carota’s applies only to wine not already on its lists. The other four restaurants checked publish no policy either way, so call and ask before you bring a bottle.

Can you take an unfinished bottle of wine home from a restaurant in New York?

Yes, if the restaurant agrees. New York’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Law lets a restaurant licensed to sell wine permit a patron to take home one unfinished bottle, provided the patron bought a full-course meal and drank part of the bottle with it on the premises. The restaurant must reseal the bottle in a bag that shows it hasn’t been tampered with and provide a dated receipt.

Hero image: Wine bottle and glass on patio by Pjrsoap, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Editor’s note: Isabelle’s Osteria is affiliated with this publication. Restaurants were selected using the criteria described above.