Dermot said: > "This situation used to be very common in Birmingham on the "Balti > Mile". There, Indian restaurants offering affordable (and tasty) food > traditionally did not have licences. "
I always assumed that this was because most Balti Houses/Indian Restaurants are run by Bangladeshi Muslims who don't sell alcoholic on religious grounds. PY On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Dermot McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/18 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Are there still proper restaurants in the UK without a license? Can you >> then bring your own alcoholic beverages and have them served? I read >> something about a "corking fee" related to this, but this may well have >> been from 20 years ago. > > This situation used to be very common in Birmingham on the "Balti > Mile". There, Indian restaurants offering affordable (and tasty) food > traditionally did not have licences. Off-Licences (shops licensed to > sell alcohol for consumption "Off" the premises) began to spring up > next door to the restaurants, and members of the public would bring > their own beer and wine into the restaurant. A corking fee is exactly > what you describe, a surcharge on self-brought (usually) wine, but > whether one will apply is very much down to the restaurant itself. > Corking fees are not confined to unlicensed restaurants either - it > could happen that a customer would choose to bring a very special > bottle of wine he owns to enjoy with a meal. > > A lot of the Birmingham restaurants I mentioned do now have licences, > but self-brought booze was still common enough last time I was there. > > Dermot > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Iren sind menschlich > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk