Cornell’s

Great value for basic food. Friendly staff. Friday’s cape cod Reuben is delicious. Burgers, steak tips are excellent. Said with grilled shrimp or chicken is huge and so fresh. Everything g yummy.

I love this place. The last time I went I had the pizza special and it was excellent. Good beer selection and generous pours. Prices are very reasonable. The is also free popcorn! The crowd is mostly locals. ½ townies & ½ Hopkinton yuppies. The bar is a 3 sided peninsula with plenty of seats.
The TV’s are low quality and when I asked to change the channel to a a basketball game (family feud was on) the bartender said no.

Classic dive bar filled with locals. Cheap beers, cheap shots, inexpensive food. Burgers here hit the spot every time. Highly recommend taking a pit stop here

Someone described as a Dive Bar, that’s a perfect description. But I don’t mean it in a negative way. I have been stopping by on Tuesday evenings after a yoga class, all sweaty and in exercise clothing, knowing I would not feel out of place in that state. I’ve had their pizza, surprisingly VERY GOOD. It’s a great local dive. I would prefer to have my meals on real plates instead of the cheapest flimsy paper ones and I would prefer better wines, but that wouldn’t make it a dive. I met the owner last night, she is very nice.

Large TV, Patio, Cold beer and good food what else can I ask for !

Great bacon cheeseburger. Fast service. Convenient place to eat. Worth stopping in again.

Long time fan and first time reviewer of this great pub. Since the new owners took over this place has continued to get better while maintaining it’s low key vibe. Just had the fish and chips, they were so good I had to write this review!

Cute little place. The inside and outside are well kept and inviting, the bartender was very friendly and helpful, and the food and beer were cheap and good. Everything was very clean and tidy by bar standards. Stopped by at noon on a holiday, had the burger, onion rings and a pint. Will definitely go back when I am in the area. Not gourmet fare, but great quality for the price.
FYI — the picture of it painted red must be old — it is currently white with red trim.

When my husband and I moved to a hopkinton we were looking for a casual bite to grab some food and a beer and relax. Well Cornell’s exceeded our expectations! The food is really great. The steak tips are always delicious and if you ask for them medium rare they always are. Pizza is also great, sandwiches are awesome, wings are good– and the specials are always great. I highly recommend checking it out!

Living in Hopkinton, this area was in need of an alternative to TJ’s. So the makeover at Cornell’s was a welcome move. It’s nice to see the refresh of the décor inside. The menu has been streamlined — but while there are fewer food options, the quality of what’s coming out of the kitchen is vastly improved. Finally, the selection of ales on tap is really an advantage here. You can get as good a selection as Stone Public House in Ashland without the hefty pint price. Service is pretty good — solid but nothing more. Sit at the bar and you’ll get more attention. Sit at the tables and you may find yourself going to the bar to re-​order drinks or settle your tab. A couple of downsides here. They are trying to be an Irish pub, but without satellite access to hurling, European football or rugby, you can’t get there. And the female co-​owner is a dour sourpuss who they need to keep from the front of the business, I’ve been there several times in the past month and I’ve yet to see that woman smile. I was in there Friday night and watched her barking at kids who were having a pizza party, and chirping at the adults about keeping the kids in what is essentially an open room that really didn’t lend itself to a kids pizza party. So her demeanor and approach wasn’t helping the situation. The reason I’m not rating this place higher is specifically because of her and the need to bring the service up a notch. This place is already worth a trip but it could be so much more.

This place has had a complete makeover. We live down the road, and we love the improvements. I love the «townie» bar feel of the place, and everyone that works there as well as the customers are very nice. Good food and drinks at great prices! I highly recommend this place.

Cheap (but good) food and drinks, nice people, lots of TVs. Love the cheeseburgers! Great atmosphere if you like a regular, comfortable bar.

Uch. Chicken wings in edible Poppers stale and dry. Pizza undercooked. We brought it home and finished cooking it. Beer good. Popcorn good. We will never return.

Grilled cheese and fish good. French fries frozen stale. Waitstaff good. Beer cold. Ill be back. Wish they would allow access to outside sitting area so pups could sit with us.

Cornells is a local bar to a small town. Its not trying to be something its not. Thus being said, Its a good bar, the owner Russ is very nice and welcoming. The drinks are cheap and the popcorn is free. It has a nice small town feel. If you come from owt of town but are willing to meet new people this is the place most people here are friendly.
Im a regular and an out of towner. Highly reccomended!

The new owners have done a nice job «sprucing it up». A new face lift has made the inside look better, better menu and same great drinks.
2 dart boards, a few TVs, a jukebox, and a popcorn machine.
They have a back patio that is nice in the summer.

Renovations really brightened place up. Staff is friendly, service is quick and the burgers are real good. 2 huge burgers with fries, a couple cokes and with tip $ 20!

Good selection of reasonably priced beer & tasty typical bar eats. Friendly local crowd, mostly retirees. A great pit stop on my way home in lieu of sitting in traffic on 495. The steak & pepper pizza is great.

By far the worst experience I have had. The food is greasy and I overheard the staff degrading visitors with the «locals». I wouldn’t recommend to my worse enemy. They would not serve one person who has an out of state license but were serving others who did! They were rude and condescending. If you look on the filtered reviews you will see this has been going on for years! If you are a local then I assume you engage in this behavior and it’s disgusting. If you are from out of town avoid this place like the redneck plague it is! They give Hopkinton a bad name…

I’m a big fan of the Dive Bar, and I’m giving this place three stars because the people were really nice.
Stopped in here on a rainy Sunday for a beer (and the bathroom). Would have had a couple of beers but the beer we had was horrid.
We both ordered Bass and it tasted like the water was dirty or the pipes were rusty or something. Not wanting to waste beer, we drank ‘em, but I wouldn’t rush back.
The place was fairly neat (in ambiance) for a dive bar. The had a covered outdoor area which would be nice on warmer days. The clientele (around 5 on a Sunday) were mostly in their early 50s and up and everyone was friendly and talkative.
The did have a bar food menu that I didn’t try anything from so I can’t discuss in that review, but they really need to check their taps.
Let me make it clear that if I based this review on the beer alone, I would have given it one star.