Cornell Club

[Matt]

Hi. I'm being taken to Thanksgiving dinner at the Cornell Clu this year; they have a limited menu, turkey, prime rib, salmon, ham, and lasgna. Anyone been there for something like this? Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Hazelhurst]

I've not done the THanksgiving show but the track record there and else where of similar stripe is to expect precisely what you'd think it would be: a good, decent, solid meal. Sunday Country Club sort of stuff but raw materials are going to be better than average I should think.

[newsjoke]

As a Cornell grad and occasional non-member guest of the club, I'm embarrassed to say (especially considering that we have a hotel & restaurant school) that the food there is completely mediocre, or worse. But, then again, it does handily beat the Princeton & Harvard clubs' cuisine (about the only thing we *can* beat them at except, of course, in the case of Harvard, general obnoxiousness) and, as with most everything else, loses handily to the offerings at (the) Yale (club).

[Chow Dawg]

I've eaten there upon occasion and the food has bordered on institutional.

[Matt]

Well, it doesn't sound too great. Still, with a limited menu, maybe they'll do all right. I imagine they can roast a prime rib reasonably well.
Thanks,

Matt

[Julie]

I'm also a Cornell grad and have been to this place a few times as a guest. The food's just passable. Frankly, the best university club food I've had in NY is at the Penn Club (where I am also an alumna! though not a member.)

[jiimmyjazz]

i'm also a cornell grad and proud to say i've never been to the cornell club. they can keep their elitist crap.