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BYOB Restaurants in New Haven, CT

New Haven, Connecticut, is home to a diverse array of highly rated restaurants that represent cuisines from around the world. The city also boasts a few gastronomical firsts, including the thin crust, wood oven-baked pizza and the hamburger, which was purportedly invented at Louis' Lunch around the turn of the 20th century. New Haven also features a number of B.Y.O.B. restaurants that allow patrons to bring along their favorite wines, beers or liquors.

Nini's Bistro
- Nini's Bistro offers prix-fixe dinner. The food is gourmet, but not intimidating, and ranges from osso bucco of pork and jerk escolar to local melon soup and portobello mushrooms stuffed with goat cheese and grilled vegetables. The restaurant is the brick-and-mortar face of a high-end catering company, so it's open only Wednesday through Saturday for dinner. Nini's prides itself on its B.Y.O.B. status, encouraging patrons to bring along their favorite drinks. Guests who don't order food are charged a $15 cover fee, and every table is charged a $2 corking fee. Reservations are suggested, but not required.
  
  Nini's Bistro
  
  40 Orange St.
  
  New Haven, CT 06510
  
  203-562-6464
  
  ninisbistro.com
Caffe Bravo
- Caffe Bravo specializes in Italian cuisine and gourmet pizza. It began as a small market with a few tables, but has grown into a full restaurant offering lunch and dinner to take out or eat in. The dinner menu includes everything you'd expect from an Italian joint, ranging from lasagna and eggplant parmigiana to penne a la vodka and rigatoni meatballs. For lunch, there's a selection of pastas and salads along with a full menu of panini sandwiches. Reservations are suggested, but not required.
  
  Caffe Bravo
  
  794 Orange St.
  
  New Haven, CT 06511
  
  203-772-2728
  
  caffebravo.com
Saray Turkish Restaurant
- Saray is an authentic Turkish restaurant in the heart of downtown West Haven. The menu focuses on kebab dishes that feature spicy lamb and beef, but there is also an extensive list of appetizers, both hot and cold. Hummus, haydari and other dips are served cold with fresh-baked flatbread. The restaurant serves a number of salads and yogurt-based dishes. Desserts include cookies coated in honey and kazandibi, a Turkish custard.
  
  Saray Turkish Restaurant
  
  770 Campbell Ave.
  
  West Haven, CT 06516
  
  203-937-0707
  
  saraykebab.com
Caseus
- Caseus is a bistro and boutique food shop that features artisan cheese, exotic candy and imported olives. Both the lunch and dinner menus feature cheese plates and charcuterie platters as well as burgers, soups, salads and sandwiches. Caseus was exclusively BYOB until 2008, when the bistro obtained a liquor license. You can still bring in your own wine or beer, but a corking fee will be added to your bill.
  
  Caseus
  
  93 Whitney Ave.
  
  New Haven, CT 06510
  
  203-624-3373
  
  caseusnewhaven.com