Frasca began cooking at the age of 15 on the North Shore of Massachusetts, but went to Kenyon College to study journalism.
In 1996 he got a job at the Chez Henri in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked with Paul O'Connell and Amanda Lydon.
[1] In the same place he met an American chef named David Bouley who invited him to help him to open a restaurant in New York City called Danube.
The same year he was recognized by The Improper Bostonian newspaper as Boston's 2001 Rising Star and started working at the Radius restaurant which was owned by Michael Schlow.
In November 2003, Frasca took over Spire restaurant, couple of years later the Boston Magazine named him Best Chef, Up and Coming.