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Always a sucker for a new-to-me cooking class, I heard about the monthly classes offered at Il Fornaio restaurant in Denver and couldn’t wait to check them out. They turned out to be a terrific way to spend a couple of hours and get a nice late lunch to boot.

The macaroni and cheese, pork and chicken noodle soup your mom used to make is hitting some restaurants in Brooklyn – with a healthy twist.

The owners of Rosina’s, an Italian restaurant on Union Avenue, are negotiating an agreement to open a new establishment at the Bound Brook NJ Transit Station.

You find it on fancy restaurant menus, in 19th-century British novels and on vice-presidential hunting trips (see: “Dick Cheney Hunting Incident” Wikipedia.com ), but you don’t find it much in the supermarket: quail.

The owners of downtown Sacramento’s popular Texas Mexican Restaurant say they’re “sort of hoping for a miracle.”

Sharon Selectmen on Tuesday approved the transfer of liquor licenses to the new owners of the Coriander restaurant in Post Office Square. The name of the restaurant will not change but the menu certainly will as it will be Indian and South Asian cuisine, along with other ethnic recipes, according to new owner Dao Thach.

The old restaurant recipes have folks talking, at least they are to me.

Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 9:45 p.m. This Cinco de Mayo, why not try some Mexican restaurant specialties at home?

Butch Bone figures if his father’s business plan has been working for more than 30 years, there’s no sense in changing it now.