For those of us who lament how most restaurants in New York City can offer beer and wine with food, unlike New Jersey, there’s a certain satisfaction in knowing that most New Jersey restaurants without liquor licenses allow beer and wine to be brought in as “BYOB,” or “Bring Your Own Bottle.” A lot less expensive, to be sure.

Only problem was, until recently it was actually illegal for New Jersey restaurants to advertise availability of BYOB. N.J.S.A. 2C:33-27(a)(2) prohibits restaurants from advertising that patrons are permitted to bring their own alcoholic beverages either inside or outside the establishment. It’s one of those laws that was long past its due date, like N.J.S.A. 51:1-13 (requiring burning a brand into a wooden container of butter or cheese) or N.J.S.A. 33-1-2 (limiting driving from out-of-state with more than one gallon of wine or 12 quarts of beer or two quarts of other liquor into the state). The law was not only frequently honored in the breach on restaurant websites and elsewhere, but you could always find any number of lists of the state’s BYOB restaurants on Yelp, Google or Trip Advisor.