I doubt that they would charge you corkage. This restaurant is not that upscale. As a matter of fact, it's well, kind of dumpy, but they are trying. You have to go and check it out yourself. If you're expecting something comparable with a West Village quaint little restaurant, or a Lanza's on the LES,you'll be quite disappointed. I liked the food, but being a new ethnic restaurant in the middle of a neighborhood that is sooo. ethnically un-Italian, may be a problem The folks in the neighborhood expect Colombian, Ecuadorian, Mexican not as a Restaurant for fine dining, but as a place to just hang out. I'm used to going to an Italian Restaurant for fine dining. If I want to hang out and chew the fat whle eating Italian food, I'll go to a pizzeria. If this place had a pizzeria section, it would probably do well, snce Pizza is popular with all ethnic backgrounds.
I hope I'm wrong and this place flourishes. But talking about it, whether positive or negative is like talking about a movie that is so offensive or so vulgar. It's so extreme, people want to check it out because of curiousity. If you knew that a singer or other entertainer was just so bad wouldn't you want to hear him/her becaue it's the talk of the town? Not that this restaurant is that bad, but there are like a zillion comments about it in less than a week.
(I think we're all desperate for something othet than a chicken house!!)