I have noticed that many restaurants near my home in Denver are
raising their wine prices. They are already charging three to four
times the retail cost of a bottle. When my local French bistro raised
theor prices so that there were no bottles under $30, I stopped going
there and let them know why.

However, recently a Pasqiuni's pizzaria opened in the neighborhood
with no bottle over $20 and many around the $11 mark. Shortly after
this, Swing Thai lowered their wine prices so that decent bottles can
be had for $14. Then another downtown restaurant started offering
bottles for half price before 7:00. I hope these are not all
coincidental, and that they are trying to compete. Just two weeks ago
I ate in a wine bar-restaurant in San Diego, and they had good
Australian Shriaz for $7 a bottle.

Lobster