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Casa Bonita, the focus of our current cover story, isn't the only longtime local restaurant that has yet to reopen. Benny's Restaurant & Cantina, a far more authentic Mexican restaurant thanks to chef/founder Benny Armas, has been closed since March 17, the day all eateries in Colorado were shut down. But while many have come back — and others are considering it, since metro Denver restaurants can now operate their dining rooms at 50 percent capacity — Benny's remains closed. "We just hope you understand," proclaims the Benny's Facebook page. "We are trying to keep our family safe due to ...

More than 200 restaurants opened in metro Denver last year by Mark Antonation's count, which he shared this past week in "Restaurant Roll Call: Every Opening and Closing in 2020." And despite the problem that the pandemic added to an already challenged dining industry, the number of eateries that closed in 2020 wasn't much higher than in 2019. But that doesn't mean restaurants are doing well. Many eateries have decided to hibernate for the next few weeks, maybe even months, and although dining rooms across Colorado were allowed to reopen this week, they can only operate at 25 percent capacity...