Cindi Kozak and Jordan Ware’s dinner spot at 169 Cherry Street was one of 14 restaurants honored by the nationwide food-and-dining-focused digital media site. Most of the picks are located in big-city markets such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The Eater write-up called Frankie’s “the Noah Kahan of restaurants,” noting that “both the musician and Burlington’s hottest new table express their unabashed love for Vermont in a way that makes it impossible for the rest of us not to love it too.”
Of Kozak and Ware, Eater Boston editor Erika Adams wrote, “The pair makes the case for Vermont in all its almost cliched Vermont-iness, goat cheese and creemees and all.”
They revamped the home of beloved Penny Cluse Café at the corner of Cherry Street and South Winooski Avenue, serving an ever-changing, seafood-heavy menu stuffed with local produce; sustainable wines and hard-to-find beers; and a cocktail list Kozak described in May as “classic without being stuffy.”
“Take the ego out of all this,” Ware said at the time. “Let’s just have fun.”
“Our team and community mean the world to us,” Kozak told Seven Days on Tuesday afternoon. “It wouldn’t be possible without the passion and love everyone puts in day in and day out.”
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