“We have our mission statement and tenets on the back wall in the office from before we opened, and it’s aged really well,” says Bobby Stuckey, who worked with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson at the French Laundry, Thomas Keller’s renowned California restaurant, before the two left to open Frasca Food and Wine with Stuckey’s wife, Danette, in Boulder on August 4, 2004 — though that date was supposed to be August 6. “I had scheduled two friends-and-family dinners, but after the first one, I realized we didn’t have enough money to do another whole night of free dinners…
Frasca in Boulder Celebrates Twenty Years of Food, Wine and Community
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