Gabriel Frasca

Gabriel Frasca is an American chef and restaurateur. He has worked in notable kitchens in Europe and the U.S., and has been an executive chef at Straight Wharf Restaurant on Nantucket since 2006. He is also co-owner of the neighboring Straight Wharf Fish Market and restaurant.

Biography Frasca grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts, in Beverley and Hamilton.

Following part-time jobs at a Hamilton ice cream shop and with a caterer in Beverly; Frasca began cooking at the age of 17 at the White Rainbow in Gloucester. In 1994, at age 20, he was cooking French cuisine for James Beard Award-winner Gordon Hamersley at Hamersley's Bistro.

In Italy, he met American chef David Bouley, for whom Frasca next help open the Danube restaurant in New York City. In 1999, Frasca moved to Manhattan and worked at Bouley Bakery (which earned a four-star rating from The New York Times) before the opening of Danube (which received three). which had opened on July 4, 1976; the same year, Frasca received the Rising Stars Award. The waterfront venue opened in June 2023, and features a fish market, ice cream shop, and restaurant.