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Frisco Prime is again with a sprinkling of latest fare and new administration, however extra of the identical diners love.
The property at 20 Predominant St. went up on the market close to the tip of spring with staffing shortages threatening its sustainability. Vincent Monarca, proprietor of 5 years, was trying on the similar drawback confronted by different companies in Summit County and he discovered himself doing extra administration and fewer cooking.
“I had an advert within the paper for months,” he mentioned. But all he might discover was employees for 2 shifts.
With Summit County’s minuscule quantity of developable actual property, a nook spot in Frisco drew some eyes. Builders made proposals, like new condos and potential workforce housing.
Monarca wasn’t able to let his restaurant go after the “uphill problem” he confronted reestablishing the restaurant in 2017. So when native restaurant group Rocky Mountain Hospitality, headed partly by Tim Applegate, stepped in with a chance to maintain Monarca cooking on the road and in enterprise, he couldn’t cross up the chance.
Rocky Mountain Hospitality supplied Monarca a partnership with extra employees and buying energy, in addition to extra time within the kitchen and fewer time wasted on paperwork and administration.
“I nonetheless prepare dinner 5 days per week on-line,” Monarca mentioned, and never simply at Frisco Prime. He splits his time at his second restaurant, Vinny’s Euro-American Cuisine. “Most individuals, I don’t assume, would do what I do. I take pleasure in cooking.”
Rocky Mountain Hospitality closed on the partnership earlier in August, and the doorways at Prime are large open. All goes nicely and solely getting higher, Monarca mentioned.
Total, diners shouldn’t count on many modifications. There’s been some repairs and minor aesthetic updates, however the brand new menu is all anybody ought to discover, Applegate mentioned.
“We didn’t wish to get carried away,” Applegate mentioned.
Frisco Prime will focus its menu totally on steak and seafood dishes — a small alteration from its outdated norm of Italian delicacies and steak — and extra will likely be added in time, Applegate mentioned, together with a contemporary look. Becoming a member of the meals are every day blissful hours and a brand new listing of wines and cocktails.
Applegate really useful diners attempt the onion soup, along with the restaurant’s “unbelievable hand-cut steaks.” Monarca seconded that assertion.
Patrons can nonetheless order all of that seated on the restaurant’s bar, first inbuilt 1860 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The “cowboy bar” earned its status for the scars, gouges and bullet holes marring it, Monarca mentioned.
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Frisco Prime will open in “full drive” for lunch and dinner seven days per week as soon as the winter crowds roll round, Monarca mentioned. In the intervening time, Frisco Prime is closed most Mondays and Tuesdays.
The restaurant provides one other slot to Rocky Mountain Hospitality’s utility belt. Sauce on the Blue, Sauce on the Maggie, Sauce on the Creek, Quandary Tequila Bistro, Kúcu Tequila Bistro, Tee One Restaurant on the Breckenridge Golf Course and now Frisco Prime spherical out the corporate’s portfolio, along with a few administration and catering operations.
So why add one other?
“We’ve obtained an incredible nook in Frisco and that basically makes a giant distinction,” Applegate mentioned.
Whereas different eating places just like the pair of tequila bistros supply steak, Prime will likely be Rocky Mountain Hospitality’s “true” steak and seafood restaurant, he mentioned.
