Moakley House is also a confusing spot in Ithaca, because it’s not really a restaurant. Moakley House is the building at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course that acts like a clubhouse. They have a catering portion, which is where I ate the other day, but also a little restaurant that is open to golfers and the public called McCormick’s Grill. I suppose, since the food is entirely different and technically it’s a different establishment, that I’ll have to do a separate post about McCormick’s Grill, but let me just give you a teaser—it’s open from 9 am to 6 pm, and they have hamburgers that they boast about serving in less than 5 minutes.
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| This is not the etiquette dinner. (It IS the Cornell men's bball team eating at the Moakley House, though. Thanks Cornell Chronicle). |
Back to Moakley catering. I ate there for an “etiquette dinner” sponsored by one of the clubs at the vet school—we were learning which fork to use, how to politely spit out a bit of gristle, and what to do with the onions on your salad that you don’t want to eat. Unfortunately, the food was of the standard catering variety—overly salted and likely from Costco. You could actually find little globs of cornstarch thickener in the mushroom soup, and I’m pretty sure the same soup was used as a sauce--poured liberally over the hunk of dry chicken served as an entrée. The dessert was a giant cup of chocolate pudding with cool whip dolloped on top. At least I didn’t have trouble leaving a little bit of food on my plate.
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