Originally Posted by chicagoamdream

Restaurants without liquor licenses are permitted to be BYOB...there may be some kind of lesser license or paperwork a restaurant has to go through, but it's really nominal. You can bring beer, wine, liquor, what have you to a restaurant--some have corkage fees, but most don't.

It's ****ing great! cogsci and I went to Irazu, the only Costa Rican restaurant in the city, with a bottle of tequila, a carton of OJ, two pounds of kosher salt and a liter of Rose's Lime, and the staff kept bringing us ice. That's what summer's all about.