What is a BYOB resturant in Houston?

Question

WHY do they have this?

Answer 1

Bring your own bottle.

The restaurant does not have a liquor license to serve liquor.

They will charge you extra for a mixer, coke etc.

Answer 2

BYOB - stands for bring your own bottle.  The restaurant will charge you for setups, glasses, ice, soda, tonic, etc.

Or when you get a party invitation with BYOB on it, that's what it means also.

A lot of little Italian restaurants have this policy.  This is because they don't have or can't get a liquor license.

One very nice Italian restaurant is La Vista

where the BYOB (wine in this case) is rather upscale, but very casual with the prized table locations being right on the sidewalk!  There's a $5 corkage fee.  The food is excellent and the prices fair.

Try one of their two locations:

La Vista

[phone] - 1936 Fountain View Dr, Houston, TX

or

LA Vista on Memorial

[phone] - 12665 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX

Enjoy!

Answer 3

Collina's on Richmond.

It is usually because they are too close to a school - law says a school can't be within 300 ft. In the case of that Collina's, the school went away but the customers are used to bringing their own wine and it does not cost the business anything in stocking wine.

Answer 4

It means Bring Your Own Bottle.  It is from the days when most establishments in Texas only had "beer" licenses and could not sell hard liquor.  You had to "bring your own bottle".  Usually the place sold "setups".  Coke, ice, mixers, etc, etc.  Now it is often used by beer joints but as someone said the nude clubs.  They can't get a liquor license so they are BYOB with a huge cover and big prices on setups.

Answer 5

bring your own beverage... bring your own beer????

Answer 6

I'm thinking Azzarelli's on Memorial is BYOB. Both times I went (but I have not been since last November) we brought wine. Wonderful food, service mostly very good. No corkage fee.

BYOB stands for Bring Your Own Bottle. This was in reference to wine, not beer (because you see it on party invitations) because alcohol licenses can cost quite a bit to a startup restaurant. In addition, smaller restaurants don't need to maintain any kind of wine cellar if space is a problem.

Answer 7

it stands for bring your own beer. i never seen it at a restaurant but it is common at all nude strip clubs.