Corner Restaurant has one owner, a new chef

Ten months ago, the Corner Restaurant in Westport had a new chef, Mickey Priolo, and two owners: Dawn Slaughter and Michael Pfeifer. Flash-forward to today and Pfeifer is gone (Slaughter purchased his interest in the venue several months ago), and this is the first day of work for the restaurant’s newest chef, Stephanie Dumler.

Dumler replaces the venue’s second chef, Mickey Priolo (who is now working with executive chef Bradley Gilmore at Gram & Dun), and comes to the Corner after an 18-month stint as executive chef at Westside Local, the urban bistro at 1663 Summit (where the talented Sam Jones has been executive chef for the last nine months).

Dumler says she’ll be creating a new seasonal menu for the Corner to be introduced at the end of September.

“I have a lot of ideas,” Dumler says, “but today is my first day.”