I called to make a reservation and was asked if I was vaccinated- I am and said yes. The reservationist proceeded to tell me I would have to show proof to get into the restaurant. This is not required of restaurants and is invasive, also sounded like she did not trust my answer? Vaccinated people can transmit the virus so why discriminate? If the workers are vaccinated it is not the restaurant's business whether their customers are or not. Anyway, there is no excuse for being rude on the phone. read more

Where to start...between the exceptional service (Katherine was our waitress), amazing food and top notch atmosphere..the entire evening was a 10. We started with two glasses of wine, the grilled Caesar and oysters. We had both never seen a Caesar that was grilled, highly recommend for a salad. I went with the fluke and he went with the steak frites. As they warn you, the fries are deadly addicting and worth it!!! We decided to skip dessert but the bread pudding that passed by definitely would've been worth it. Can't wait to go back! read more

The $100 booking fee that Cornerstone Bistro holds just to make a reservation is really hurting their business. It really sets an unpleasant tone for the interaction from the beginning. That hold alone would have been enough to warn us off but we needed a restaurant near the Wayne train station and my Mom said she had seen this place. Had the restaurant been packed full of people, perhaps I would have understood, but we were the only people there. Or maybe it would have made some sense if they had delivered an outstanding meal and great service, but the meal was mediocre at high prices and small portions and the service was just okay. We won't ever be going back, and if this charge doesn't come off my credit card in 3 days, I'm calling the better business bureau. read more

Expensive and small portions, mediocre overall. Two people in our party had upset stomachs after ordering the oysters. Drinks were the only decent part. Won't be going back. read more

Positive: Food tasted good and the service was great. Negative: Way overpriced. Steak for two $100 for a bone-in ribeye. Half that at a prominent steak restaurant. Bottom line: Ambience is good. Service is solid. If you are looking to spend $400 for two couples, this is the place for you. For me - one and done. read more

I love going to Cornerstone with family and friends. From the time it opened it became clear that everything is first class and there is an amazing attention to detail. The expansion made it even better! From the food, wine list, charcuterie selection, all are amazing. The owners are very genuine and give back to the community. Great experience in the perfect location. read more

Place is small and seating is limited (about 20). It somehow manages to include a meat/ham station plus a cheese locker in its already limited space. We were there 8am early on a quiet Saturday. I wonder how the scene would be like during regular dinging rush hour. Food wise, $12+ for a sandwich only 4" in its diameter reminds me dearly that I am in one of the Philly's richest suburb. Food taste great though. Both breakfast and pull pork sandwich we ordered are well seasoned and flavorful. And the egg souffle in our breakfast sandwich is probably the best one I ever had so far, even trumps the Eggslut in Vegas. Oh...and it is one of the very few brunch places that actually get its coffee right and NOT taste sour. read more

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What a wonderful experience! It was our first time and it won't be our last. The space is charming and our server was so knowledgeable of wines and the source of our food. We thoroughly enjoyed the oysters and everyone loved their meals which included lobster, swordfish and burgers. The chocolate truffles were delicious as was the strawberry galette. Cannot wait to go back. read more

We went again, and I must change the rating down to one. I won't go into details, but the female manager's behavior and attitude towards us simply cannot be excused or overlooked. Why am I spending hundreds of dollars per visit for this kind of abuse? Food is good, but not worth this. read more

Excellent all around, and one of the only places to find real frose to go with a great meal or share plates and the seafood was my favorite. Fun events too, looking forward to the Next movie night and Nantucket festival. Gift baskets are also really great. read more

This place is great. Nick and Christine, the owners are lovely. The food is fantastic. Definitely one of the best burgers around. We also love the mushroom pasta (very unique home made noodles). The vibe is great, though not the biggest fan of some of the squat leather chairs. All around definitely recommend. read more

While there is a slight pretentiousness to this place, from the patrons, not the staff (but that's Wayne, and why I kinda like it)...the food is really really good. we've been there a couple of times. for light bites and full meals and have always been happy. It is pricey, but when the food and service are good we are willing to pay more. read more

Cornerstone - Cheese Shops Near Me - Wayne, Pennsylvania

One of Wayne's best restaurant experiences. Especially fun to eat at the counter. The owners are a couple who left their jobs in finance to open this gem of a restaurant. It's a great place to host small private parties. read more

Cool looking spot right in the heart of the Wayne action, that we were very excited to try. Holy smokes was this place expensive! Don't get me wrong - the food was very solid, but for the portions we got and the prices we paid? Leapfrogged "gouging" and was borderline "insulting". Also expected a better tap list. read more

Chef owner / operators. Friendly and welcoming. Small venue with most seating at chef's table. Loved it.

Main Line location( across from Wayne Station)with a culinary high end Nantucket pedigree,Cornerstone is a fantastic addition to the Wayne dining scene. Only issue will be getting seats( reservations highly recommend/a necessity) unless you wander in at 5 and promise to eat and leave quickly as there are only 15 seats. Tapas style makes it fun to share plates( but you won't) and the cheese and charcuterie plates are great. Did I mention it's BYOB? #Winning Haven't tried breakfast or Lunch yet but the menu looks great for that as well. Great guest chef series happening mid week twice a month I was told, and apparently Wednesday is a busy as a Friday/Saturday. Great cheese shop if no seats available,and the owners and staff are fantastic and very accommodating. Fun crowd as well. New menu is fantastic, call way ahead though!! read more

Somehow my partner and I spent $50 on lunch here for 7 tiny pieces of mediocre cheese, bad crostini from a box, bland crackers, an ounce of salami and one bowl of soup. The 'small chef's board' for $35 is enough for 1 not 2-4...and its $35. If we'd had 4 people, one person wouldn't have even had a chance to taste one of the cheeses, as there was only 3 small portions of it. The bisque soup was fine, but not great. Props for using real lobster meat. Maybe the other items on the menu are fantastic, but the pictures of the 'chef boards' on the website are nothing like what we were served. We essentially spent $50 for two appetizers. Unbelievable. read more

Cornerstone - The $35 chef's board. - Cheese Shops Near Me - Wayne, Pennsylvania

Excellent, yes it's pricy, but the quality is so worth it especially as the owner trained under Marc Vetri. Pasta dishes are always to die for as is the duck on the charcuterie board. The texture of the cavatelli is out of control!!!!!! Steak is buttery at medium rare. Grilled Cesare is amazing! Was beyond stuffed and shared with a friend! read more

We were excited about trying this restaurant since they just recently expanded to include full service bar. Still small but comfortable venue about 42 seats. We like siting at the bar which was very comfortable with attentive bar tender. It was a little chilly since one entrance was at bar area. The hostess was more than accommodating, called us by name since we spoke on the phone and had reservation. Menu was expansive, something for everyone. Only thing we may point out, we ordered wine by the glass and were a little surprised when we received bill, they were $24/glass. Looking forward to returning. Highly recommend. read more

Another.Great.Evening. Christine, Nick and the team do a fantastic job. Great food and atmosphere unlike anything else on the Main Line!

Love this place. Only reason for the 4 instead of 5 stars it is hard to get seating. The food is really good. The bone marrow butter is outstanding and their moroccan nut unique and delicious. The warm olives are also a wonderful touch while starting the evening off with a cocktail. read more

I really wanted to like this place. It's got a great cozy vibe to it with a little market inside. We went for brunch and had steak and eggs, shrimp and grits, and French toast. The French toast was too dry and the crust was too hard. I tried the other plates from my party as well but nothing stood out. The portion was small and the food pairing (with other food on the same plate, not wine) was fairly plain. Maybe we need to come back and try the breakfast sandwiches or dinner instead. read more

Overrated and subpar are perfect descriptions of both the food and service. So many better mainline restaurants to choose from for both food and service. read more

This is our second time there, as we live out of town but the food is consistently good and the service is solid.

My husband and came here 2 weeks ago for Sunday brunch. We had never been here, so we decided to try it out. The place was beautiful, however the service left much to be desired. There was only one other table seated when we arrived and we still had to wait for our server to great us. When they did arrive no drink menu was offered and she seemed displeased when we requested one. Our food order came out before she even took our drink order. When our mussels arrived I requested some spoons and bread and the server seemed annoyed. We were never checked on to see how everything was. Finally, we were greeted with the bill with no option of ordering coffee or dessert. It's was a hefty price tag for a poor a poor experience. read more

It's almost not fair how good Cornerstone is - no restaurant in the area even has a chance to compete. I've been multiple times in person but have not been since COVID started. I've gotten takeout multiple times during COVID though, and one thing that really sticks out is that somehow, the food is as delicious as it would be in the restaurant. How do you make lobster, Wiener schnitzel, and veal shank that travels well? Not sure, but they manage. They're just the best!! read more

I had a very disappointing meal at corner stone this week. Not only did they fail to mention that I would be dining outside when I made the reservation but the service was deplorable. The food was average at best. Stay away! read more

short & sweet: these guys are amazing, from their cheeses & charcuterie to their small plates to their entrees, everything was amazing. my boyfriend and i celebrated our anniversary here and our expectations were blown away. cheese: phenomenal. salted & spiced nuts: one of the biggest reasons to try a cheese board. cavatelli: if you're lucky to get it for a small plate it is 100% worth the $23 price tag. i'm certain any of the entrees would be outstanding after trying the veal cutlet and the crab cakes. everything was outstanding. i have nothing bad to say... side note: anyone who says their crostini is from a box is delusional and the small chef's board is a generous serving for 2 people although it would be small for 4. although i have had cheese plates this size that have served 4 so nothing out of the ordinary. at $35 it is the most money i've ever spent on a cheese plate (yes, more than talula's garden who has the best cheese plates in my opinion) but it was amazing. and the servers were kind enough to ask us what our likes and dislikes were before preparing. you get what you pay for: quality over quantity. read more

Great dinner, dining experience. We were hesitant to try this place because the prices were steep, but kept hearing good things. What we found were generous portions of excellent quality, exquisitely prepared food and a cozy setting. We brought our wine, and had a great time in this friendly neighborhood location. We will be back for burgers which I have heard are the best. read more

Went a few years back for lunch and was totally underwhelmed, so stayed clear for awhile. What a mistake that was. Finally tried it again recently, and it was fantastic. The tastings menu was excellent, and Isaac matched great wine pairings. The Wayne Line is a restaurant waste land for much that's good (regardless of price level), with a few exceptions. This last visit to Cornerstone shows that it is now one of those great exceptions and well worth revisiting. We will definitely be back. read more

This was our second visit to Cornerstone. The food quality and service quality is very good overall. We ordered two burgers cooked medium rare, a Ceasar salad, and mussels. We loved every bite! We enjoy sitting around the island with the open kitchen concept - it creates an intimate feeling and its entertaining to see the staff cooking. We also enjoy being able to bring our own alcohol - there are not many BYOBs on the main line, so we appreciate this. We love the atmosphere so we will probably return again down the road because we live so close by, and I love small establishments! The downsides are that there was a $50 cancellation charge for our reservation, which many restaurants do not do on the main line, so beware to couples whose babysitter may cancel last minute! Also, some basic cooking mishaps occurred that I'm surprised would happen in this restaurant at this price point. We requested medium rare for our burger temperatures, but we received burgers cooked medium well to well. Second, I noticed the chef selected the mussels by volume and not weight when preparing this dish for us, and to no surprise about a third of the shells were empty with no mussels. At $20, I was disappointed that the mussels were half the quantity you would receive down the street at Teresa's for the same price. Thirdly, our crostini bread was removed from our place seating about twenty minutes before our entrees arrived; it would have been nice to munch on crostinis while drinking our wine. So 5 stars for the atmosphere and friendliness of the staff, but 2 or 3 stars for the basic cooking mistakes on preparing meat temperatures and weighing (lack thereof) of mussels for this price point. read more

Sucked, sucked, sucked......the worst dinner in Wayne in a long time!!!! UGHHHHHH, haven't gotten a reservation for a year now every time we call. They are SO rude on the phone and in person!!!!!!! Was there tonight and sat in their 'lounge ' area, no reservations and they were rushing us from the minute we sat down!!!!!!! Omg, ordered dinner saying NO SALT on my Beet salad and my salad came with No Beets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, nothing had salt on it though there were No Beets in the Beet salad, so they brought me a thimble full of heavily encrusted salted beets and I put it on my salad . DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!! NOT GOOD, don't go there! they have an enormous attitude and don't have the correct way of handling it verbally handling that they are booked . RUDE!!!!! We live a block away and have tried for over a year to get a reservation there, sat at a lounge table and we trying to give them the benefit of a doubt and they BOMBED TONIGHT!!!!!!! They are in our neighborhood, will never recommend them and will NEVER go back. RUDE & UNPROFESSIONAL!!!!!!! read more

I'm loath to tell others about this gem as seating is limited but it's too delicious not to share.

First, I have to begin with something relatively negative because it's important. This restaurant is really feeling themselves with their cancellation policy. I understand that a party cancelling last minute can be financially disastrous, but $50/person is usury. I made a reservation for four and was literally living in fear of one of us getting sick or in an accident or something else that would have kept us from keeping our reservation. $200 for a meal I didn't consume is over the top. That said, I appreciate that they are requiring vaccines and have no issue with proving it when asked (although no one actually asked). We were seated outside and it was chilly. I could see a stack of heaters in the corner and asked the waiter if they could turn one on for us--nope, sorry we don't have heaters available this evening. Seriously? So we sat on metal chairs with no cushioning at a metal table, shivering. The food that was ordered was...delicious. My friends are serious foodies and they were impressed, which is hard to do. When the bill arrived, my friend who has been in the food industry his entire life looked at the bill first. His eyes popped. Honestly, there is a lot of care and attention put into what they serve and I do expect to pay for that, but at that price point, your customers should be comfortable. They shouldn't be cold, the chairs shouldn't be hard and the view shouldn't be of a chain link fence. I realize that Covid has hit everyone hard and there are some kinks to work out, but when it's your job to put out a quality product, the entire experience needs to reflect that quality. They do an excellent job in so many ways, but if people aren't comfortable, then it's not going to be a memorable experience. Threatening someone with such a harsh penalty in the event that something unforeseen happens in their life before they even walk in the door doesn't set the stage in the right direction. read more

This was an amazing experience. The owner, waitress, was knowledgeable about where all the food came from and pairings. The experience is one that I would like to have at least once e a month. I highly recommend this restaurant. read more

Beyond overpriced--especially for a BYO. Party of 4 for dinner was over $200. Did I mention it was BYO? I agree with the other reviews--$35 for a sample cheese/meat tray?! How about the $45 chicken--seriously?! I don't care how great it may taste. Do not recommend. But if you do go know that you'll be ripped off. And hungry. read more

We had a wonderful date night here! Quality food and quality service. We started with cheese and charcuterie which was to die for. We moved on to the Caesar and a pasta dish I can't remember the name of. Loved the Caesar! We split the burger which was delish. Not cheap but so worth the price tag! read more

I am absolutely SHOCKED that Cornerstone was not yet on Yelp. The owners, Nick and Christine, truly know their stuff. This inviting space is perfectly cozy, as you enjoy your meal around the "chefs kitchen". You watch them prepare everything right in front of you. They offer something like 60 meats and cheeses, and are very selective in their choices. I have had quite a bit off the menu, and everything is incredible. The dessert is amazing, and blue fish is fabulous, and the crab cakes were some of the best I've ever had. My husband said the steak was outstanding. I cannot speak more highly of them. I love it so much I want to work there - I did offer myself as an intern, but I think they thought I was joking .. well I'm not :) This is a "must go"!! read more

We tried several times to eat at Cornerstone but our timing was off; closed for summer vacation, closed on Monday, no open reservations... Finally went for lunch two weeks ago. My husband and I each had the burger which was delicious. Problem was the soup order- never arrived. When our server came to clear the plates we reminded him about the soup and then quickly brought it to the table. Bill arrived and we paid, but soup was not removed from the bill. Left us feeling cold. Upon our recommendation, our daughter and son in law went for dinner last night. Had reserved one of the 3 tables. Upon arrival the hostess/ owner told them that she had given their table away to other diners and offered them seats at the bar. Our daughter is heavily pregnant and was not thrilled. Absolutely no effort made to soften the mistake- no complimentary appetizer or dessert, etc. They said that food was good. So.....Cornerstone 's service does not meet expectations, especially at their price point. Will not be in a hurry to return. read more

My husband and I had brunch here and there was no one else there... And we don't understand why! It was a delicious, interesting menu! The decor is so cute, and the staff especially the owner are super friendly and personable. They serve breakfast lunch and dinner. We will most definitely be back to try lunch and dinner too, with a bottle of our own wine. read more