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Frasca Food & Wine hosts the hottest pastry chef ever

Jean Georges exec pasty chef Johnny IzzuiniTonight, at 5:30 p.m., Frasca Food & Wine, at 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a winemaker dinner with Jean Georges porn star exec pastry chef Johnny Izzuini, who also did time in several other celebrated New York kitchens, including Payard and ... More >>

Frasca is moving...eventually

This past year, Frasca made plenty of buzz when the highly acclaimed restaurant that Jason Sheehan reviewed as Fantasy Land revealed that it would be moving from its home at 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder sometime in the future. But not, as it turns out, in the immediate future. Surprisingly, the ... More >>

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Appleman's cooking in Boulder tonight

Nate Appleman, author of the A16: Food Wine cookbook and chef at San Francisco's A16 and SPQR restaurants, will be cooking tonight and tomorrow night at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder; Frasca co-owner and wine director Bobby Stuckey will pair the wines. Tickets are $140, and hard to come by ... More >>

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Frasca is famous — so why is its chef doing an infomercial?

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Going fusion on Sixth Avenue.

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One of the country's best.

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Red-pepper jelly gets canned at Frasca.

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Eyes on the Prize

News from the James Beard Awards

This year's James Beard awards were finalized on Monday, and while most of it is bad for us here in the Flyover States, there are plenty of parties going on elsewhere. Colorado got completely skunked in the journalism awards, with most of the medals going to the usual suspects: Alan Richman, Ruth R ... More >>

Tonight: Frasca wines paired with small plates from MiniBAR

At 4 p.m. this afternoon, just in time for happy hour, MiniBAR, the Milk Dud-size space at 222 Columbine Street, is hosting a wine and food pairing on the patio featuring Scarpetta wines from Frasca Food & Wine master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and exec chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson who, togethe ... More >>

Barbabietola Affumicato at Frasca

At 4 p.m. this afternoon, just in time for happy hour, MiniBAR, the Milk Dud-size space at 222 Columbine Street, is hosting a wine and food pairing on the patio featuring Scarpetta wines from Frasca Food & Wine master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and exec chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson who, togethe ... More >>

Tonight: Celebrate Frasca's fifth anniversary with food and wine

Robin MosesLachlan MacKinnon-Patterson and his daughter, Lydia​It's been a fantastic five years for Frasca Food & Wine, the Boulder restaurant at 1738 Pearl Street that chef Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson and master sommelier Bobby Stuckey opened in 2004. Even now, Frasca is still the restaurant- ... More >>

Top ten Italian restaurants in Denver

Denver has many great Italian restaurants. As I wrote this week, Mark & Isabella's is not one of them. Here are ten of my favorites: ​Il Posto (2011 East 17th Avenue, 303-394-0100). Il Posto has an excellent location, crammed between other bars and restaurants, their patios shoulder to should ... More >>

Under Fire: It all comes around (at Frasca!)

Taylor Marsh​Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen.I learned many pointless things in culinary school. The knowledge of how to do tableside c ... More >>

Frasca's Bobby Stuckey kicks asphalt at the New York City Marathon

​Of the 42,000 runners who killed themselves finished the New York City Marathon -- the world's largest -- this past Sunday, Bobby Stuckey, the master sommelier at Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder, placed 283rd with a time of 2:47:23. That's right: the guy who drinks, pours, studies and explains ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

John Plessinger in a booth at the Nob Hill Inn, the bar his father put in his name back in 1969, when he was 21.​What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were hanging on every last word of our hi-larious stories about the time we spent getting up close and personal with the reg ... More >>

Tonight: Four-course food and wine dinner at Frasca

​It's not too late to make a reservation for tonight's food and wine dinner at Frasca, the Boulder food shrine to all things brilliant. Tonight's dinner, hosted by Kevin Pike of Terry Theise Estate Selections, is all about grower champagnes, often referred to as "farmer fizz," according to Bo ... More >>

Frasca's Bobby Stuckey goes cork-to-cork with Kathy Lee on Today

Frasca Food & Wine sommelier Bobby Stuckey and exec chef Lachlan M. Patterson​You gotta give Bobby Stuckey props. Anyone who's willing to endure the clownish theatrics of Kathy Lee Gifford, co-bubble head host of NBC's Today show, deserves his day in the spotlight, which is exactly where Stuc ... More >>

It's true: Kathy Lee Gifford is a wine idiot

Kathy Lee Gifford doing the sniff test.​Yesterday morning, Bobby Stuckey, the wine director at Boulder's Frasca Food And Wine, gifted himself to the Today show for a full four minutes to talk about some of the best wines to give as presents during the holidays. Stuckey, not surprisingly, mad ... More >>

The List: Top five Boulder restaurants

Boulder has some terrific restaurants, including Arugula, the site of a recent Slow Food dinner that fed the mind, body and soul of Juliet Wittman. But Arugula isn't the only Boulder restaurant that feeds us. Here are five more of our favorites: ​Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, 303-442 ... More >>

Cocktail king Bryan Dayton leaving the bar at Frasca to sling drinks at Bitter Bar

Lori Midson ​ Bryan Dayton, the bar manager of Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder, is leaving his gig of more than five years to join the über-talented mixology crew of Bitter Bar, the Boulder watering hole whose chief mixologist, Mark Stoddard, recently trotted home with gold in the 42 Below Cock ... More >>

Tonight: The wines of Querciabella, Tuscany at Frasca

A Flickr photo.​Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, is famed for its delectable dishes and extensive wine list -- and every Monday night, the restaurant offers a special four-course tasting menu, co-hosted by master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson. T ... More >>

Tonight: Wine dinners at Frasca and Elway's Downtown

​Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, is pulling out all the stops for tonight's installment of its weekly wine dinner: Marcus Samuelsson -- the Top Chef Masters 2 contestant -- will prepare a four-course menu inspired by Red Rooster Harlem, the restaurant he'll be opening in New ... More >>

Frasca Food and Wine's expansion to include pizza and panini

​Since master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson left the French Laundry to open a neighborhood restaurant in Boulder six years ago, Frasca Food and Wine has been in the business of changing the nature of the Front Range dining scene, winning national accolades, attra ... More >>

Frasca Food & Wine closes next Saturday to complete renovations

This is the last week of the original Frasca​This week marks your last chance to eat in the original rendition of Frasca Food & Wine, the Boulder restaurant at 1738 Pearl Street owned by master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan MacKinnon Patterson that started making big waves in the Fr ... More >>

Pizzeria Locale and Caffe opening pushed back to January thanks to customs problems with the oven

Pizzeria LocalePizzeria Locale's second oven is loaded up in Napoli for transport​When Frasca Food and Wine owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson drew up plans for Pizzeria Locale and Caffé, located on the same block as the original Boulder spot at 1738 Pearl Street, there was ... More >>

Laura Shunk's story begins with Chipotle Mexican Grill

Will the real Laura Shunk please stand up?​Early this month, Jason Sheehan gave Chipotle Mexican Grill a glowing review in the Seattle Weekly, our partner publication where he now works -- and where the haters haven't stopped rolling their eyes and asking why he'd bother writing about such a u ... More >>

Food and place porn: Pizzeria Locale's opening night

Laura Shunk​"There's no other style of pizza in the world that's as geeky as the Napolitano style," chef Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson said last night, as the pace started to pick up at Pizzeria Locale during its first official dinner service. "And we're trying to do it exactly right." "Makes o ... More >>

James Beard Foundation announces 2011 semi-finalists: Frank Bonanno, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, Frasca and ChoLon among them

James Beard Foundation​Last November, the James Beard Foundation summoned the public to nominate its favorite chefs, restaurants and industry professionals for the 2011 awards. And after all the self-pimping and ballot-stuffing, the poll is closed. This morning, the foundation announced its ... More >>

Sneak peek: Boulder's Caffé

Caffé​On Saturday night, the building at Eighteenth and Pearl in Boulder that now houses both Frasca Food & Wine and Pizzeria Locale was a frenzy of gastronomic activity: Both restaurants seem to have hit their post-expansion stride. And when we stopped by for a little Barbera, we also got a ... More >>

Duo and Olivéa pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom tapped to bake at the James Beard Foundation awards gala

​The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin' soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout ... More >>

Tonight: Sasa Radikon at Frasca Food & Wine

Radikon​"This one is really important to me," says Bobby Stuckey, co-owner of Frasca Food & Wine. "I've wanted to get these guys out here since we opened, but I never thought I'd really be able to do it." He's talking about Stanko Radikon and his son, Sasa, who make wine in Friuli, the Italia ... More >>

James Beard Foundation announces 2011 chef and restaurant finalists -- and two are from Colorado

Frasca Good & Wine master sommelier Bobby Stuckey is a James Beard finalist​Earlier today, in Portland, the James Beard Foundation released the listage of superstar chefs, restaurants and restaurateurs who are finalists (semifinalists, of which there were several from Colorado, were announced ... More >>

Frasca's Bobby Stuckey at the center of Denver Cochon 555 pig fight

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

Top five things I learned working in Frasca Food and Wine's front of the house

​When I first met Kelly Whitaker, chef-owner of Boulder's Pizzeria Basta, we talked about my possibly helping in the front of the house at the new restaurant he was then planning for Boulder. While I pondered the move, I eventually decided against it: I'd recently started working at Frasca Foo ... More >>

Pearl jam: Taste of Pearl food and wine (and culture) festival

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Ask the bartender: Meet Evan Faber, Colorado Cocktail contestant

​Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>

A pizza the pie: Food Network magazine names Pizzeria Locale one of Top 50 in the country

Lori MidsonFood Network magazine heralds the pizza at Pizzeria Locale​Six months ago, editors from Food Network magazine zigzagged across the country in search of the holy grail -- or, more precisely, the best pizzas in the United States, and in the September issue, on newsstands August 9, th ... More >>

Frasca Food and Wine's Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson on eating fox tartare and the get in -- and get out rule at Frasca

Lori Midson​ Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterso ... More >>

Up From The Ashes

Lori Midson​ Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterso ... More >>

The Boulder Wine Merchant will host a Burgundy festival later this month

​Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman, who took over at the Boulder Wine Merchant just over a year ago, was recently consulting on a customer's cellar when a conundrum led to a new activity. "The client said, 'I want to reload with a bunch of Burgundy, but I don't get a chance to taste those thing ... More >>

Boulder Wine Merchant's Burgundy Festival was a smashing success

​Yesterday morning, sixty people huddled over rows of glasses in the new addition at The Mediterranean in Boulder, feverishly writing notes while sniffing and sipping. While they worked, a panel of master sommeliers highlighted comparisons and characteristics of wines from Burgundy, walking th ... More >>

Union Station redevelopment may include a food hall run by Frasca

Frasca Food and Wine​The area around Union Station has recently gained several high-profile restaurants, including Coohills and Charlie Palmer's pair of spots, District Meats and Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza (opening next week), with The Kitchen and the Squeaky Bean coming next year. Now Union Sta ... More >>

Tickets now on sale for the 30th anniversary of the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen

Lori Midson​O come, all ye faithful, to one of the biggest culinary red carpets rides in the country: the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen. If you've been really, really nice this year and you've got a high roller in your circle of family and friends, then you might as well ask for the BIg One: a ... More >>

New Year's Eve bubbly: Five of the best bottles of you've never heard of

​Over the past four weeks, we've ponied up a list of wines guaranteed to make your Thanksgiving a party, the perfect set of locally sourced, wine-themed gift ideas, and our picks for the twelve most holiday-worthy bottles of 2011. And you know what? We are officially exhausted. And because you ... More >>

Pizzeria Locale rolls out a new Aperitivo hour

Rob ChristensenPizzeria Locale rolls out a daily Aperitivo hour.​One year ago next week, Pizzeria Locale finally opened its doors, revealing the Napolitano pizzeria that Frasca owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson had been working on for months, pushing forward even after their ... More >>