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Looking back over the past year, most restaurateurs will agree that enduring a pandemic — with all of the concerns over public health and safety layered on top of operating restrictions and forced closures — has been the toughest time ever for owners. But add to that a fire and then frigid weather that froze the pipes, and you have an idea of what Nick Quintana went through before finally getting back to serving guests. But in order to do so, he had to start a new restaurant, Sazón, which just opened at 6105 South Main Street in Aurora's Southlands retail center.

It's a triple-X kind of week, with Muxagat, kalimotxo and Xatrucho — not to mention some music that comes with a parental warning label — on the menu. Keep reading for details on all the tasty events over the next few days, then read further for more food and drink events in the weeks ahead. Monday, April 12 Boulder cooking school Food Lab, at 1825 Pearl Street, is taking three hours to teach what generations of Japanese chefs have taken decades to master: ramen. From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12, you'll learn the basics of two types of ramen broths, tonkotsu and shoyu, plus how...

Get ready to usher in another sunny weekend with a cooking class, spring cocktails, mushroom madness or poutine in a parking lot. After chewing over the details for those events, keep reading for more fun things in the weeks ahead, including May the Fourth food and drink specials and a recently rescheduled kitchen takeover that had us drooling back in March before it was canceled. Friday, April 9 The Seasoned Chef, a cooking school at 999 Jasmine Street, has a few spots left for its Taste of Tokyo cooking class at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 9. For $185, you and your sous chef will learn how...

Brad Anderson has made quite an impact on the Denver dining scene over the past few decades, running the Rocky Mountain Diner, Rick's Cafe, Chopper's Sports Grill, the Castle Cafe and the Next Door Bar with partners Tom Walls and Jerry Good. Now Anderson is ready to jump back into the scene with Benzina, an Italian restaurant built from the bones of a former Phillips 66 gas station at 4839 East Colfax Avenue. Anderson began planning the restaurant three years ago when he purchased the property, which had most recently been home to a Meineke muffler shop. His plan at the time was to have the p...

The Ballpark neighborhood has a new hotel, right across the street from the main entrance to Coors Field, where fans of baseball and spring weather are now enjoying both, since the Colorado Rockies' home opener drew about 21,000 ticket holders (the maximum number allowed under current COVID restrictions) to the Thursday and Friday games. Some of them might have found their way inside the Rally Hotel, where the Original and the Rally Bar are now open.  The Original is serving up such all-American favorites as half of a roasted chicken or prime rib with Hasselback potatoes, but you'll also di...