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It didn't take long for me to start thinking that my meal here wouldn't be perfect. I had arrived a little bit late due to traffic, so everyone else in my group was wrapping up their order as I walked in. No big deal: I slid into a booth seat (right in front of the waitress, by the way) as she finished up with everyone else, picked up a menu, and I figured she'd be back in a minute to take care of me. No such luck - we had to flag her down later on to take my order, and you could see a look in her eyes of surprise when we did. Like, "Oh there's a new person here!" I admittedly wasn't impressed by this oversight but figured she might be having a bad day, and that I'd reserve judgement until the meal arrived.
Sadly my food really wasn't that good, either. It was ok enough, but my ham and brie omelet was just much too salty to be considered anything other than ok; the same goes for the side of hash browns. I mean, I expect ham to be a little salty, but this tasted like they'd added salt to the entire omelet while it was being cooked. Even the brie had a hint of salt to it. Sad as it is to say this, the best part about the meal was the wheat toast with butter and jelly - the least salty item on my plate.
By the way, that waitress' look of surprise returned at the end of the meal, when some of us had to point out to her after waiting for a bit that she hadn't taken about half of our checks back with her after we laid out our cash and cards for her; obviously we couldn't leave until we'd paid. Luckily for her no one in our party was the type to take advantage of her forgetfulness, and luckily for us we weren't in the biggest rush to clamor on out. Otherwise we'd've been significantly delayed.
I do want to add that while this is not Cornerstone's fault, it admittedly doesn't help matters that this place is located in a part of town that's primarily permit parking only. Luckily I found a stretch of street to park on that allowed non-permit holders to park on Sundays, but if not for that I might have had a lot more trouble, especially given the chilly winter weather. Someone else found meters to park at, but with the snow being the way it's been I had no such luck spotting road-side meter parking.
Overall I'd describe my time at Cornerstone as disappointing. Not outright awful and unacceptable - I've experienced worse - but unimpressive for sure, both in terms of food and service. I won't be rushing back out here any time soon.
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