Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson

Best New Restaurant: Our ten winners over the past decade

Twenty-four hours from now, the Best of Denver 2013 will start hitting the street -- and the web. This year's edition is packed with more than 400 winners (we're still counting). The the very last category in our Food & Drink section was one of the toughest picks this year: Best New Restaurant. In ... More >>

Bon Appétit restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton names America's top 50 new restaurants, including Linger, Pinche Taqueria and Pizzeria Locale

Back in 2010, Bon Appétit restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton pronounced Boulder the "Foodiest Town in America," a declaration that made former Westword restaurant critic Laura Shunk -- and at least one Boulder chef, Theo Adley -- raise their eyebrows in skepticism. And now Knowlton is back with hi ... More >>

Photos: Jim Meehan at Frasca Food and Wine

"I met Jim at the Gramercy Tavern," Frasca Food and Wine owner Bobby Stuckey explained by way of introduction to Jim Meehan, the star bartender who stopped into the Boulder restaurant last night to host a cocktail seminar and dinner. "He gave Danette [Stuckey, Bobby's wife] and me a really memorable ... More >>

Win a three-day culinary sojourn to Boulder, courtesy of Big Red F Restaurant Group

Lori Midson​There's a reason why Dave Query, the brains behind the Boulder-based Big Red F Restaurant Group, generates so much respect: The restaurateur, who owns West End Tavern, Zolo Grill, Lola, Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, Bitter Bar and three Jax Fish locations is, quite si ... More >>

Give us more! Denver chefs want more markets, "cheflucks" and butcher shops in 2012

For last week's Year in Review issue, we recapped what the subjects of the 2011 Chef and Tell interviews would like to see less of in Denver. This time, we're serving up their wish lists of what they hope to find on Denver's plate in the new year -- everything from year-round farmers' markets to who ... More >>

Good riddance! Local chefs don't want to see trash talk, crappy Mexican food, discount programs or mediocrity in 2012

As we've discovered in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, Denver's kitchen commanders are, if nothing else, unapologetically opinionated. We pepper them with dozens of questions, and sometimes their answers are salty -- especially their responses to what they'd like to see less of in Denver from a ... More >>

In the kitchen with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson: Frasca's summer beet salad

​The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week's Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, ar ... More >>

Reader: Boulderites should be grateful for their granola

​Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen's suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen's sake, instead of calling Boulderites the "Granola Set," just call t ... More >>

Round two with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, exec chef of Frasca Food and Wine

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

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 >>

OpenTable lists America's top fifty restaurants "fit for foodies"

​ OpenTable.com, the free (for consumers) online reservations program, just released its 2010 Diners' Choice Awards for restaurants that are most Fit for Foodies, the victors of which were determined by more than seven million online reviews as voted by OpenTable diners. The question is, ho ... More >>

Cosmopolitan names Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson one of the most sizzling chefs in the country

Frasca exec chef Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson​Okay, so here's a thoughtful question: Would you rather get naked and dirty with Lon Symensma, the Denver-bound former New York pretty boy culinary artist who NYeater called a "strong contender for the title of New York's Hottest Chef," or Lachlan ... 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 >>

Going, going gone: Twelve tickets left for the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and Thanawat Bates

Frasca Food & Wine executive chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson​The Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation lands in Denver tonight, stopping at the Brown Palace, 321 17th Street. That's where Frasca Food & Wine executive chef (and 2008 James Beard award winner for Best Southwe ... 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 >>

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 >>

Barbabietola Affumicato at Frasca

Tonight: Frasca chef recreates Top Chef Masters menu

Robin MosesFrasca chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and his daughter, Lydia​Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson, the exec chef at Frasca Food & Wine, the restaurant at 1738 Pearl Street that's the best in Boulder (and possibly Colorado), was rather unmercifully booted from Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters b ... More >>

The List: Nothin' but meat

Smoked duck breast at Olivea.This past week I reviewed Sketch--a restaurant that serves almost nothing but meat.  And a little cheese.  And a few scattered, random plates of olives, cherries, bits of this, pieces of that. I liked the place for its simplicity, for the plain way that it offe ... More >>

Frasca finally opens for lunch -- for two days only

Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson at Frasca.For the first time, Frasca Food & Wine is opening for lunch -- but only on Friday and Saturday, May 8-9. Although the schedule change is to accommodate people in town for graduation ceremonies at the University of Colorado, you don't need to know a student to si ... 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 >>

Frasca at my Block Party

Win Some/Lose Some

Burger Time

Suspicions confirmed: Bud's makes the best burger in Colorado.

Soul Survivor

Exit Ethel’s, enter Coleman’s.

TV or Not TV

Another star turn for Ian Kleinman.

Boulder Bites

In a town filled with good restaurants, Prima couldn’t cut it.

The French Connection

Southern cooks know how to make something out of nothing -- like frogs' legs.

San Lorenzo Ristorante

A weekly menu makes for a delicious change of pace — and taste.

Asia Like It

Going fusion on Sixth Avenue.

The Rest of Denver

Looking back at the Best of Denver.

New York State of Mind

New York State of Mind

Green Acres

WaterCourse is a growing concern.

Frasca Food and Wine

One of the country's best.

Sex and the City

New York State of Mind

Five in 2005

For restaurants, this was a very good year.

Bite Me

Beard House Rules

Bite Me

Eyes on the Prize

Fantasy Land

At Frasca, all foodie dreams come true.

Best New Restaurant (Since March 2004)

Frasca

Best Belly

Frasca