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A A A Comments By Jason Sheehan Thursday, Apr 7 2005

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Two blocks down Lincoln, Le Centralis getting into the small-plates, small-portions and small-glasses-of-wine (think the tajuts at Frasca) game with a killer deal. For ten bucks, the house will serve a five-wine flight of three-ounce pours with any main course, cracking bottles like a 2002 Graves, Château Ducasse white and the '99 Château des Gavelles (Coteaux d'Aix en Provence) for the pleasure of those grape-juice connoisseurs looking to take a long liquid lunch. Le Central is also continuing its Monday and Tuesday lobster lunches and dinners, when $22.95 gets you a three-course prix fixe centered around different preparations of Maine lobster.

Adega is jumping into small plates as well, with a menu launched mid-March that breaks down into three pages -- meat, fish and vegetarian -- and offers tapas-sized portions of chef Moscatello's globe-trotting cuisine. Entree sizes are still available (essentially by doubling the order), but this radical departure from the standard, classic main-room menu was a very deliberate move on Moscatello's part. He believes (and I agree) that the best way for people to dine is to taste a lot of different things -- to take a tour, as it were, through the entire menu. So now, rather than sitting down to a standard app-entree-dessert progression, Adega diners can wander through the kitchen's offerings and come out on the other side feeling like they've really tasted a lot.

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Frasca Food and Wine

1738 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO 80302

Category: Restaurant > Italian

Region: Boulder

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