Ever wonder whether you're permitted to bring wine to a restaurant and what the corkage and other wine-related policies are? Now there's a new free (ad-supported) website called GoBYO.com (also see their iPhone app) that is essentially a restaurant guide viewed through the eyes of wine lover. Read the story on the Springwise.com site titled Guide to BYO-friendly restaurants.
The site provides a variety of ratings including a composite restaurant rating from multiple online guides, a most popular list, Yelp ratings, and perhaps most importantly for readers of this blog, the "Wine-Friendly Rating." The wine-friendly rating formula covers the basic wine policy and its restrictions (if any), corkage fee levels (over $20 is the worst category), the number of wines offered by the glass (50+ is highest score), and whether the restaurant's wine list is online and if it's at least 50 wines.
