Subject: Frank Bonanno

• Bones: Frank Bonanno's bold new plan for Seventh and Grant

  October 17, 2008

• Oodles of noodles coming to town

  In Bite Me this week, I talk about a couple of noodle joints coming to town -- Bones and Happy Noodle House -- and a New Yorker piece that helped fuel the fad. But Frank Bonanno and Dave Query aren't the only local restaurant empire-builders getting in on this act. The Jet Entertainment Group also has a noodle bar coming: XO, which has been built onto the back of their Jet Hotel at 1612 Wazee Street. Unlike Bones's wild flights of chef-driven weirdness, XO will specialize in healthy no

  December 4, 2008

• No bones about it, Bones looks like it will open soon

  Bones looks like it will win the battle to be the first of the town's new noodle houses to open. Frank Bonanno's place at 301 East Seventh Avenue already has its name -- the restaurateur's childhood nickname -- etched on the windows, and the renovation of the space inside (the old Sparrow Market) is going fast. Fast enough to make a pre-New Year's opening look likely. More important, Bonanno has a date for Bones's liquor-license application: December 19. And it's not likely that neighb

  December 16, 2008

• The food trends--or lack thereof-- in 2009

  "Value." "The economy." "No new concepts." "Staying open." I talked to four of the top chefs in the state (and possibly the western United States) and asked each of them about the top Colorado food trends of 2009. I wanted to share their bold predictions, like "the new hottest dish will be anything with an egg on top" or "Peruvian is the new Thai." I wanted to be edgy and shock you with some random herb or vegetable that you don't know about.   I didn't get what I wa

  December 17, 2008

• Spies like us: South Pearl Street edition

  Good eyes from S.R., my new favorite deep-cover operative in the South Pearl 'hood, who came back strong from the holidays with this little tidbit: "Just an FYI . . . there is a notice for application for a liquor license at The Chocolate Berry (1890 South Pearl Street, Denver) with the applicant being Park Burger, Inc. The names listed for the entity are Jean Phillippe Failyau (pres.) and Frank Bonanno (shareholder). No murmurings in the n-hood yet." I immediately got Bonanno on the blower

  December 29, 2008

• Happy news year?

  The first few weeks of the new year are generally a quiet time in the restaurant industry. Under normal economic conditions, this is a time for the bean-counters and accountants to put their heads together over the books and figure if the twin mercies of Christmas parties and New Year's Eve festivities were enough to fill the coffers for the lean months between January 1 and the spring thaw -- or at least until the saving grace of Valentine's Day (a big one for restaurants). For cooks and chefs

  January 5, 2009

• The List: Jason Sheehan's favorite meals in 2008

  Last week, I digested a year's worth of eating. To recap, here are my six best meals of 2008, in no particular order, and one in memorium addition: 1) Le Bernardin, Manhattan. Eight or nine or ten courses, with the menu personally chosen and assembled by Eric Ripert and wines paired by Aldo Sohm, the best sommelier in the world. 2) Beatrice & Woodsley. One beautiful night full of pork and pork and pork and chainsaws. 3) Osteria Marco. While I was in New York, home of some of the best Italian

  January 6, 2009

• The Bite

  February 1, 2001

• Best Service

  April 4, 2002

• Best California-Mediterranean Restaurant

  April 4, 2002

• Bite Me

  August 15, 2002

• Bite Me

  March 13, 2003

• Best New Use of an Old Chinese Restaurant

  March 27, 2003

• Luca D'Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with Wayne Conwell

  Luca D'Italia, 711 Grant Street, marks its six-year anniversary throughout the month with a march of visiting Denver chefs, including Wayne Conwell, exec at Sushi Sasa, 2401 15th Street, who will team up with Luca (and Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones) chef-owner Frank Bonanno tonight, June 3, for a five-course wine pairing dinner priced at $90 per person. A 6:30 p.m. reception kicks off the night, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. To secure your spot, call 303-832-6600.If you can't make tonight's din

  June 3, 2009

• Best Italian Restaurant

  March 25, 2004

• Best Second Act

  March 25, 2004

• Bite Me

  April 15, 2004

• Bite Me

  March 3, 2005

• Best Last Supper

  March 24, 2005

• Best Chef

  March 24, 2005

• Drink of the Week

  June 16, 2005

• Noodling around at Bones

  I'd already been out for a working lunch, out for drinks, then out for more drinks. Stopping in at the office, I got word that the James Beard Foundation had announced its semifinalists for the restaurant and chef awards, and that Bonanno was on the list. The announcement had just been made that afternoon; I knew there was no way in hell he'd be at Bones that night. He'd be out celebrating or something, making it a light night, maybe only dropping in at three of his four restaurants, whatever. I

  March 17, 2009

• Up Close: Bones

  Mark Manger In this week's Westword, Jason Sheehan reviews Bones, Frank Bonanno's popular Capitol Hill noodle bar. See photos of the restaurant at westword.com/slideshow.

  March 19, 2009

• Star Light

  September 13, 2007

• The List: Team Bonanno

  My review of Bones -- Frank Bonanno's new restaurant at 701 Grant Street -- was a love letter, a total crush note from one shameless omnivore to another, to the kind of guy who would put bone marrow, ice cream, escargot and udon all on the same menu, from the kind of guy who would gladly eat all of that in a single sitting.After I finished the review, I got to thinking about Bonanno's other restaurants in town -- both those still operating and those that failed, and it occured to me t

  March 23, 2009

• How a big dump can wreak havoc, or how to get more bang for your buck

  First, the bad news: As Jason Sheehan just reported, a call to Frank Bonanno's Bones revealed that, you guessed it, it's closed due to inclement weather. Not only is Bones black until at least tomorrow, but Bonanno's three other restaurants -- Luca D'Italia, Mizuna and Osteria Marco -- are also dark. And that's just the short list of joints that have sent their troops home (or didn't open at all today), thanks to Mother Nature's wrath. Others that have succumbed to the white stuff? Fuel Cafe, Ro

  March 26, 2009

• Underground

  Things are looking up at Larimer Square.

  November 1, 2007

• Frank Bonanno's new restaurant will bowl you over

  March 19, 2009

• Chewing the Bones with Frank Bonanno

  March 19, 2009

• Noodling around

  December 4, 2008

• Cucumber Caipiroski at LaLa's

  October 2, 2008

• Osteria Marco

  Make a pig of yourself at Frank Bonanno’s new place.

  January 3, 2008

• An Affair to Remember

  Foodies celebrate at this taste sensation.

  October 12, 2006

• A Noble Bird

  Raising up the lowly chicken.

  November 2, 2006

• Mizuna

  Frank Bonanno's star retains its brilliance.

  October 27, 2005

• Jar Head

  Red-pepper jelly gets canned at Frasca.

  October 27, 2005

• Lost in Translation

  Milagro Taco Bar is far from the talk of the town.

  October 27, 2005

• Way to Go

  Luca D'Italia may kill me, but I'll go out smiling.

  September 25, 2003

• Life's Butter Here

  Like cream, Mizuna rises to the top.

  June 21, 2001

• Mouthing Off

  November 13, 1997

• A cornucopia of good food at The Q Worldly Barbeque

  May 21, 2009

• Birthday beat: Luca D'Italia and Jonesy's EatBar both have reasons to jubilate

  Six89 and Phat Thai executive chef Mark Fischer Luca D'Italia, Frank Bonanno's Italian restaurant at 711 Grant Street, celebrates six years in the Capitol Hill 'hood this month with a parade of visiting Colorado chefs, including Mark Fischer, exec at Carbondale's Six89 and Phat Thai, who joins Bonanno tonight in the kitchen. The five-course dinner, paired with wines, is $90 per person. A 6:30 p.m. reception starts the night rolling, with dinner following at 7 p.m.; call 303-832-6600 to reserve

  June 24, 2009

• Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today

  The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of Denver's top culinary chiefs: Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Troy Guard (TAG); Tyler Wiard (Elway's Cherry Creek); and Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D'Italia, Osteria Marco and Bones). In

  July 23, 2009

• Happy Hour: Five for five at five at Bones

  ​Bones, Frank Bonanno's fantastic ramen noodle bar at 701 Grant Street, has just rolled out a daily happy hour, which the crew is calling "Five for Five at Five." That's because the five happy-hour dishes -- shishito peppers, crab wontons, a duo of egg rolls, escargot pot stickers and black cod tempura -- each cost $5 during this time period, and happy hour begins at 5 p.m. Unfortunately, it ends just an hour later, which barely gives you enough time to eat your way through the board. Factor i

  September 10, 2009

• Chef and Tell with Frank Bonanno of Luca, Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones

  Lori MidsonFrank Bonanno in the kitchen of Luca d'Italia​ "Look, I see a lot of things in restaurants that I think are really unacceptable, and it pisses me off, because I think that Denver diners deserve a lot better than what a lot of places are doing, and if that view makes me seem too outspoken, that's okay with me." That's Frank Bonanno laying down the gauntlet. The Denver chef who raises eyebrows and turns heads as much for his brash honesty as for his unassailable cooking is in

  October 14, 2009

• Part two: Chef and Tell with Frank Bonanno

  Frank Bonanno​This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Frank Bonanno, executive chef-owner of Osteria Marco, Mizuna, Luca d'Italia and Bones. You can read the first part of Midson's interview with Bonanno here. Culinary inspirations: My mother and my sister. When I was six, seven, maybe eight, my mother and I used to cook together to the old Julia Child show. Our family ate dinner together every night, and from an early age, they cemented in me that food was more than just TV dinn

  October 15, 2009

• Cocktailing with Frank Bonanno at Luca

  ​ When I interviewed Frank Bonanno for this week's Chef and Tell Q & A, we hung out in his kitchen at Luca d'Italia, where he totally seduced me by making housemade burrata, arguably the crack cocaine of cheese. One portion was plenty for two (three if you have a skinny butt), but I'm a burrata vamp, so Bonanno let me pick from his plate, too. This is one of the perks of my job. Anyway, every so often Bonanno holds cooking classes, one of which might even be a cheese-making class where he

  October 16, 2009

• 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 shoulder. The concept is also interesting: a purely and unapologetically Italian trattoria with chalkboard menus, changed daily and almost always brilliant, an open kitchen and a dining room alive with bodi

  October 23, 2009

• Egg-ceptional egg dishes in Denver

  ​ "With an egg on top." Ooh. You just stepped up your food game. You uttered those five words to the server, and suddenly everyone at your table perks up. It's not just a sign that you're starving. It shows you're a risk-taker. Someone who has had enough of diets and eating healthy. Someone who -- for a lack of a better term -- wants to break the shell. "Screw my waistline; just bring me what I want." While Homer Simpson's Good Morning Burger hasn't made its debut (yet), you can still

  November 3, 2009

• Serious Eats chimes in on Denver's "unique food trends"

  ​Denver got a shout out last week on the eminent food blog Serious Eats, where they listed what they believe to be four unique food trends in our fair city. Our fast casual chains, micro breweries, green chili, and Beau Jo's all get mentions. While we appreciate that they resisted mentioning Rocky Mountain Oysters, and that they recognized some tasty green chili, we have to ask: are these really trends? Maybe when Frank Bonanno and Mark Dym start serving honey with their pizzas we can talk, bu

  November 17, 2009