Five Corners Cafe

Draw a Venn diagram where town-of-Webb roots and fine cuisine intersect and you’ll find Paul and Kathy Rivet in that slender overlap. Paul’s first professional foray into food was as a dishwasher at his father’s Old Mill Restaurant in Old Forge; at 13 there was nowhere to go but up in the business. He graduated to making sandwiches at the Howard Johnson’s across from the Strand Theater in town. In 1989, as a busboy at Thendara’s Knotty Pine, he met Kathy Elliot, who was a server at the restaurant owned by her uncle.

At 20, while working at Thendara’s historic Van