Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Aurora, Colorado: Food Mecca

To kick this blog off, I wanted to be able to display the diversity of Aurora, Colorado with a couple of fun facts.  Aurora is home to two school districts that have a collective enrollment of 87,302 students.  These students are from over 135 different countries and speak nearly 100 different languages.

As you can imagine, the great diversity of our school systems leads to one great attraction that Aurora hangs it's hat on... a great diversity of ethnic and locally owned independent eats!

Just recently, Visit Aurora teamed with the City of Aurora to help produce YUM, a guide that lists over 150 of these ethnic restaurants and markets that are located in the city.  They are arranged by cuisine types, including African, Ethiopian, Filipino, German, Greek, Indian, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese.  

Rebecca Caro, a freelance food and travel writer and author of the award-winning blog, From Argentina With Love, has provided a narrative on each of the restaurants and markets.  She provides a little history on each place as well as their must-eats!

We understand that Aurora is a big city and finding these places may be a bit tricky.  For that reason, each restaurant and market has a number next to it indicating where in the city the establishment is located.

District Map of Aurora, CO
As mentioned in a previous post, Visit Aurora has a complete listing of all of the restaurants in town.  Today, there are 563 establishments on that listing, which includes all of the chains, franchises, etc.

The city of Aurora and Visit Aurora produced the YUM guide and online restaurant listing in hopes that it serves as a resource to help you explore the many great restaurants in Aurora.  Every effort was made to ensure that the information within is accurate.  And, while we can't guarantee that, we would love to know if we missed your favorite spot or something listed has changed.  So, if you have helpful feedback, please drop us a not at inquiries@visitaurora.com.  Thanks and Bon Appetit!