Dining Guide

It’s wild west meets haute cuisine at the Cornerstone Bar and Grill. Longtime locals, Meg and Erik Vorm, welcome you to a Main Street venue as stimulating to the eye as it is to the taste buds.

Recipient of the prestigious AIA Honor Award 2010, the Cornerstone (built in 1884) remains the only building in Ketchum listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Inside its modern décor, you’ll enjoy a seasonally changing array of game, seafood and vegetable dishes, complemented by Jan Hegewald’s handcrafted cocktails and a list of beer and wine that’s both familiar and eclectic.

It’s a local twist on the city-style grill, with an open kitchen featuring buffalo strip loin encrusted with coffee and cocoa nibs, wild salmon on lemon risotto, and the famous mac and cheese. Regular items also include vegan and gluten-free dishes and a better than you’d expect children’s menu, all with a Main Street price point, so there really is something for everyone.

Call to reserve the Mafia table downstairs in the intimate stone-walled grotto, or watch the action from above in the spacious skybox surrounded by historic bricks fired in old Ketchum, or make a night of it in the bustling main-level bar with its comfortable banquette and Main Street watcher booth. Check out the guest bartender every Wednesday and bring the kids for Happy Hour Playdate in the skybox. Watch the calendar for Pirate Night, Abba vs. The BeeGees, and Use Your Words: an original poetry, prose and music event, and other themed party nights.

The Cornerstone Bar & Grill always serves up a night to remember, making it the new Ketchum tradition.