Where can I ‘BYO’ my wine in Manila?

So you’ve finally started your own cellar but which are the best restaurants to enjoy your wine?

While the food scene in Manila has really improved in recent years, restaurant wine lists continue to disappoint, and when you’re on a special occasion why take the risk, when you can BYO a great wine from home?

Manila restaurants vary wildly in their corkage policies which range from the very reasonable, to the downright absurd. Below you’ll find a summary of restaurant corkage policies arranged by simple traffic lights to represent whether a restaurant is ‘safe’ to bring your premium wine to.

Green: Corkage is <400PHP per bottle Amber: Corkage is between 400 and 600PHP per bottle
Red: Corkage is >600PHP per bottle. Yep – more expensive than Sydney.
Black: BYO wine is not permitted by the restaurant

For now, we’re just covering fine dining restaurants in Makati City – but email us if this section is useful and let us know what areas you’d like us to cover next!