If you've visited the website for the Corners Inn Restaurant in the last week and wondered why you've been greeted with a blank white page, it isn't because of a website problem, it's sadly because the restaurant has shuttered.
Chef and Innkeeper Fredric Byarm sent out an email last week announcing that 'operations from this date forward are no longer the responsibility of Marby Corporation nor Fredric Byarm'.
We emailed Fredric to see if we could find out more, including if he had plans to re-appear in a new location next season but we received an auto response which said 'sorry but this company and all operations have been closed'. That was a week ago.
Then today Fredric announced via Facebook that he had secured a job with the management team at the Woodstock Farmers Market. Which is probably just as well.
The restaurant business is a tough game, one which Fredric is no stranger to. Last season he was behind the failed Twilight Bistro at the Mountain Green Resort at Killington, which this season reopened under new management (the front desk's words, not ours) as the classy sounding Double D's (we never made it there and sadly it is due to close for the season at the end of this week).
What went wrong at the Corners Inn then? The restaurant located at 52 Upper Road (between Killington and Woodstock) was in an awkward 'blink and you'll miss it' location. The night we dined there we had to turn around after driving right by it.
The reviews were also mixed with one Rutneyland resident describing it as 'one of the worst restaurants we've ever been to' while another stated the 'dinners were very slow....and that other patrons got up and left'. On a more positive note, one New Jersey diner described their meal as 'interesting and delicious'. We had a similar experience. Rut Girl thought her Carbonara was pretty bland but her friend Butternut loved the duck.
Coincidentally we see that someone with the exact same name as Fredric is due for an arraignment hearing at the Windsor District Court at the end of the month. The food wasn't that bad. 
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