MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
NICKSTELLINO.COM
December 2008
Watch Chef Neal Fraser prepare grilled fillet of beef with farro, haricots verts, Italian sausage and red wine sauce, alongside Nick Stellino.
NEW YORK TIMES
October 2008
Director of Operations, Amy Knoll Fraser quoted in this New York Times article. The party’s been over for months and months in South Florida and Southern California, but restaurants there are just now starting to feel the hangover.
DAILY DISH
September 2008
Grace Restaurant to stop serving bottled water. The environmental cost of bottled water is becoming an increasingly hot-button issue
L.A. TIMES
August 2008
Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, chooses Grace Restaurant as one of his top dining destinations. There's something about running the second largest city in America that makes you hungry
ANGELENO
August 2008
Grace Restaurant named one of the Top 25 Restaurants by Angeleno Magazine's 2008 Restaurant Issue. Grace is the perfect example of of how to decorate a grand space
L.A. TIMES
June 2008
Neal Fraser was a judge at the C-CAP competition held at the Four Seasons Hotel where high school students from California competed to win more than $600,000 in culinary school scholarships
THE KNIFE
May 2008
Restaurant years should be measured like dog years. Supposedly 80% of them close before the five-year mark, which is why the five-year anniversary of Grace Restaurant
EATING L.A.
May 2008
How many upper-tier restaurants can you name that opened five or more years ago and haven't experienced any glitches
L.A. MAGAZINE
April 2008
Grace Restaurant named in the top 75 list of best restaurants in Los Angeles. Neal Fraser undoubtedly birthed the first gastrique on Beverly Boulevard
GRIDSKIPPER
March 2008
The #1 Dessert Menu of Los Angeles goes to Grace Restaurant, where Pastry Chef Mariah Swan spearheads the doughnut movement with Wednesday Night Doughnut Shoppe
L.A. TIMES
January 2008
Chef Neal Fraser kicks off his dress shoes to create a variety of gourmet burgers
LAist
January 2008
dineLA Restaurant Week kicked off in style at Neal Fraser's Grace Restaurant on Beverly Boulevard. Neal Fraser is the only Angeleno ever to have won Iron Chef against none other than Cat Cora
L.A. TIMES
December 2007
Celebrity restaurateur Daniel Boulud mixes it up with local chefs such as Grace Restaurant's Neal Fraser in Season Two of the Mojo HD series, After Hours with Daniel
SELF MAGAZINE
November 2007
Grace Restaurant investor, Connie Britton of Friday Night Lights, shares her love of Grace's Sunday Night Burger Night
RESTAURANT STANDARD
October 2007
Chef Neal Fraser is no stranger to the green movement. As partner and executive chef of Grace Restaurant in Los Angeles
JUST ONE PLATE
October 2007
One plate, one recipe, one chef, ten questions. Chef Neal Fraser's "Thai Lobster Soup" is featured
ANGELENO
August 2007
Neal Fraser named Chef of the Year. He is a chef with a conscience. He might even be the Bono of L.A.'s food scene
ELLE
December 2006
Good Morning, Sunshine. Rise to the occasion and give friends and family a proper breakfast, L.A. style
Yogi Times
September 2006
We are in for a treat as Fraser guides us on how to make Hemp Seed Crusted Tofu
Bon Appetit
August 2006
Here the humble doughnut has its own special night and loyal following.
Los Angeles
August 2006
Best of LA: Food: Burgers
Culinary Trends
July 2006
Homer Simpson's not the only one with a fondness for the puffy pastry rings. Diners at sophisticated GRACE Restaurant in Los Angeles are ordering doughnuts almost by the dozen.
Angeleno
June 2006
Three Parts Sugar. L.A.'s restaurant scene just got a little bit sweeter, with three top kitchens introducing new pastry chefs.
Angeleno
May 2006
Iron Chef Warrior...California's first chef ever to win the televised kitchen brawl.
Art Culinaire
Spring 2006
Who says that all child actors meet unhappy fates? Chef and former thespian Neal Fraser has cooked alongside the likes of Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller and David Burke, co-owns a successful restaurant with his wife, and has the easy-going demeanor of a man doing what he loves for a living.
Where LA
March 2006
The Champion! Grace chef-owner Neal Fraser is L.A..'s first Iron Chef America champion, trouncing Iron Chef Cat Cora in "Battle Pork."
VLife Weekend
January 13, 2006
Home is where the haute is. No matter how famous a chef becomes, he's still for hire.
In Style
December 2005
Hot Spots: Foodie Theme Nights. L.A. restaurants give stars yummy reasons to eat out during the week
Los Angeles Magazine, Top 25 Restaurants
January 2005
LA's Best Restaurants by Patrick Kuh.
Town & Country
January 2005
When I have a night off, which doesn't happen often, I like to go out for something ethnic...
Wine Spectator
May 2004
Los Angeles dining grows up. Several new restaurants are putting substance over style.
Los Angeles Magazine, Top 10 New Places
January 2004
Neal Fraser, who in 1995 started the Beverly Boulevard restaurant row with Boxer, twirls a baton of concepts and styles in the air like a marching-band drum major...
LA TIMES
November 5, 2003
With Grace, Neal Fraser has creatied a stylish contemporary bistro where a young Hollywood crowd is discovering his brand of contemporary cooking.
ANGELENO
July/August 2003
Neal Fraser is back, with a smart looking restaurant and a sweet surprise in his kitchen
FLAUNT
June 2003
Grace, the new star of Los Angeles' flourishing Beverly Boulevard restaurant scene, is more than a dining establishment–it's a place that offers the down-to-earth warmth of home and a decidedly modern version of Old Hollywood elegance.
LA Times
May 21, 2003
From opening night, Grace was designed to be the hot ticket in L.A. And one look at the swirling scene and frenetic menu leaves no doubt that it's arrived.