If you’re looking for the best restaurant in America right now, you’ll want to head to Boulder, Colorado.
Frasca Food & Wine, whose specialty is the lesser known cuisine of Friuli in northeast Italy, snagged the title of best restaurant from the James Beard Foundation at an awards ceremony on Monday night in Chicago. The casually refined 21-year-old restaurant, from chef Lachlan McKinnon Patterson and acclaimed sommelier Bobby Stuckey, specializes in dishes like cappelletto affondato— burnt flour pasta with green and white asparagus and sheeps milk ricotta—and Alaskan halibut with green strawberries, wild ramps and baccala. The vast wine list is world-wide famous; it won Beard’s outstanding wine program award in 2013.
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