Chefs Christine Doherty Kondra and Nick Kondra's history of culinary adventures is a key ingredient to the mission of Cornerstone Bistro. The duo discovered a mutual passion for travel, adventure, and handcrafted, thoughtfully sourced fare. Between summers in Nantucket and winters in Boston, the couple spent the next few years together exploring the nation while cementing relationships with chefs, farms and artisanal purveyors along the way.
Christine and Nick sought out top-tier culinary artisans from Chicago, Louisville, San Francisco, Nashville, New England, Seattle, and beyond. They nurtured those relationships and folded them into their concepts of seasonality, quality sourcing, and every meal as an experience. Cornerstone Bistro & Artisinal Market was born.
Cornerstone has a long standing history of supporting the local community since opening it's doors in 2015. Cornerstone's co-owner, Christine Kondra, and her sister Erin Kreszl, founded The Bee Foundation in 2014 after losing their cousin Jennifer Sedney to a brain aneurysm rupture at the young age of 27 on Christmas Day. Since its inception, the organization has raised over $2M for brain aneurysm awareness, research, advocacy and support. 1 in 50 people in the US have a brain aneurysms and over 50% of ruptures end in death. Join us in supporting this immensely underfunded disease and help us in the fight to save lives.