BYO Best of NYC

July 20th, 2011
Good dining options that permit you to bring your own beverage.
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Whether you bring a bottle of 1997 Opus One to the table, or a favorite local vintage, dining at a restaurant with your own wine can be liberating. Few New York City restaurants permit guests to BYO, however. But we’ve uncovered a handful of good dining options that permit you to bring your own.

Cube Sushi, located on a lively block in the Lower East Side, is known for its fresh, inexpensive sushi. Bring a bottle of 2010 Avinyo Vi d’Agulla Muscat and see why this crisp, spritzy white matches perfectly with a Cube 63 roll.

At famed Brooklyn pizzeria Di Fara, you can have your pizza Margherita and your bottle of wine, too. Try a refreshing Lambrusco such as Vecchia Modena Cleto Chiarli.

The Upper West Side’s A Café serves organic French-Caribbean fare, including jerk duck leg confit that begs for a bottle of 2008 Bone-Jolly Gamay Noir.

Casa Adela, a Puerto Rican mainstay in Alphabet City, serves garlicky rotisserie chicken worthy of a slightly weighty rosé like the 2010 Bisson Ciliegiolo from Liguria.

The West Village café Tartine lets you bring a bottle of earthy and bright 2009 Gérard Brisson Gamay to sip while you nibble on a croque monsieur, et voila!—you’re at a sidewalk café in Paris.

  • Cube Sushi, 63 Clinton St., 212.777.2718, cube-sushi.com
  • Di Fara Pizza, 1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn, 718.258.1367, www.difara.com
  • A Café, 973 Columbus Ave., 212.222.2033, www.acafeny.com
  • Casa Adela, 66 Avenue C, 212.473.1882
  • Tartine, 253 West 11th St., 212.229.2611 
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