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    The Cornell Restaurant + Bar

    3.5 (53 reviews)
    Closed 11:30 am - 10:00 pm

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    Jason B.

    Holy cow. About as bad an experience as I've had in my life. Truly awful. Our tour group took us here as part of our day trip. It was a buffet-style meal, which was 'ok'. But the truly beyond-horrible service made this an absolutely dreadful experience. The first thing the waitress did was take our drink orders. The person before me orders a Coke, and she says they have Pepsi products. So he orders a Pepsi. I order a Mountain Dew (a Pepsi product), and she says she doesn't know if they have it. How do you not know if they have it? But, to keep things moving and easier, I just get a Pepsi. The rest of the table orders their drinks and waits. And waits, and waits. 45 minutes later people had eaten their food, and everyone at the table is still waiting for their drinks. Two different waitresses said 3 different times the waitress says, "it's coming". I finally got fed up and left before our time was completely done because I was on the verge of saying something that probably would've gotten me arrested. Talking to people outside after, apparently, the drinks did finally come after getting a 3rd waitress and an additional 15 minutes. And they were watered down.

    Old fashioned
    Deb D.

    Passing through the area and stopped for dinner. Love the ambiance and decor, clean and fresh. Our old fashioned drinks were perrffect, sooo refreshing and poured well balanced. Our waitress was friendly. The food was delicious! Short rib and burger. Just loved everything. Side Caesar was phenomenal, anchovy dressing, great flavor. Found room for the warm brownie w ice cream. The outside could have been a bit softer, mostly soft towards the center, otherwise we enjoyed it very much. Would definitely return if in area.

    Fried chicken
    Lonnie S.

    Terrible food, awful service, all around disappointing. Literally every aspect of our experience was problematic. Meal starts off with complementary truffle fries-was expecting that, but quickly let down, they were cold, undercooked, and not enough to share for the table. We arrived at 1:30, we were told to late for brunch, that we needed to order from the dinner menu- except we searched for this place via its lunch menu, which has about twenty more items then the dinner menu items- why is your lunch menu larger than your dinner menu? We ordered kids meals first, and our waiter disappeared for 15 minutes. Our orders came over an hour after the kids meals arrive. Some food came cold (Pot Pie, and Fried chicken), others in my party had extremely small portions (short rib, tuna and burger). All came with disappointment. Our waiter sensed our dissatisfaction and was quick to assure us things are weighed before cooking... i'm sure the food looked and tasted good before you cooked it too. They wouldn't let me pay cash, and had difficulty producing a check- we ended up splitting it three ways, but they came out with four checks, one a hundred dollars more than the rest- when we inquired about that, they said it just happens and my party member was not charged twice (ironic though that it came to the table, and looked like the other three checks, and had the sane card number on it)- after a terrible meal of restaurant remorse, everyone loves to go home and check if they were accidentally charged triple. Food was mediocre at best, serving staff had no concept of prioritizing customers, The interior is super cool. Hopefully the next owners will care more about food. This is the type of place that is killing the restaurant scene.

    Jessica P.

    Delicious food. Incredible service. Quirky atmosphere. Clean interior. We enjoyed everything about this lunch that we came to celebrate two birthdays. Of course we came early so we had the server's undivided attention. She recommended some great items and we enjoyed a leisurely lunch. There were a bunch of fruit flies which isn't necessarily the restaurant's fault but there were a bunch in the bathroom as well... Portions were plentiful and had good flavor. My fish & chips were super greasy, though, which means the fries were sitting in grease. That needs to be remedied.

    Thomas A.

    We'd parked a few blocks away (by accident) and got excited as we walked past an array of unique and interesting shops as well as two different museums in route to our dinner destination. When we arrived at The Cornell you couldn't help but be impressed. This (obviously) historic building now remodeled for the present-day, right near the Hudson River? C'mon, man, this is going to be epic. Hot and muggy with a ton of flies... eating outside for the view was a (major) mistake. (I don't fault the restaurant for any of that, of course. But the mess all over the ground by our table... crushed crayons, discarded sugar packets - yes, that was definitely on them.) The (leather-bound?!) menu was tight with dishes bouncing between Japan to Italy to Peru to America - so we decided to dabble all over. Unfortunately we dropped almost $200 (including the tip) and half of us were still hungry. I'm not joking when I say we immediately left to find a Taco Bell so we could get some more grub. Inside the place looks great. The staff were definitely friendly. Watching the boats (and ducks) passing by was fun. The complimentary starter app (truffle French fries) was a nice surprise. If you can overlook the price vs. the portion size - you might dig what they're slinging. (Half of us really enjoyed the food, the other half were majorly disappointed.) If we did live in the area I don't think we'd come back though.

    Lobster pasta
    Daniel G.

    We liked all of the food and thought the portions were plenty big (contrary to some other reviews). The complementary truffle fries were a great touch and delicious too. It was a little too humid to eat outside on the water when we came, but the inside is pretty nice. Service could have been better though- they took our plates and knives after we finished the fries but before the rest of our food came. It took several minutes for anyone to bring new plates and knives which we did need to share the chicken parm pizza and lobster pasta, which was pretty awkward (but fortunately, the food didn't get too cold while we waited. Definitely room for improvement there.

    Chicken parm pizza
    Lizzy K.

    You know a place is good when another resturants' waitress recommends it! Service was a little shotty, (our waitress was also assigned to a big party next to us to I do wonder if that was the reason), although the staff was friendly and helpful. The food was so good, everything was so flavorful and made for a very memorable experience! Everything was well cooked, well seasoned and so delicious. The free truffle fries were a fun touch. I would recommend everything we ate.

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    The service is amazing and the food was so delicious I will recommend this to family and friends. Great server Kevin was very hospitable.

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