About this site

What this site is

What Is Bottle Service is a small independent reference site about one nightlife custom: buying a whole bottle for a reserved table at a club, and the bill that comes with it. It is run by a private publisher. It does not book tables, sell drinks, promote parties or work for any venue, and no venue named on these pages paid to be named.

It exists because most pages on the subject are written by people who sell tables, and their prices rarely carry a source or a date. Here a price is shown only next to the menu, the price list or the official page that prints it, with the day it was read.

Who writes it

The pages are signed "the editorial desk", because that is the honest description. No bartender, nightclub host or hospitality lawyer wrote or reviewed them, and the site does not claim one did. Nobody behind the site visited the venues named, booked a table or called a host for these pages. Research and drafting are done with software assistance, and every figure goes through two separate checks before a page is published. The sources and methods page describes the process and its limits.

What the site does not do

• It does not tell you what a table will cost on a given night. Clubs change prices by night and event, and many print none.
• It does not rank clubs or recommend one.
• It does not give legal advice. Rules on alcohol service differ by state and city.

Contact

Corrections, questions about a figure and notes about a menu that has changed go to [email protected]. Please include the page and the line you mean. How corrections are handled is on the sources and methods page.