Located on Colfax Avenue in Aurora, La Plaza Colorado is home to 107 businesses, mostly Hispanic-owned. Vendors sell things like shoes, jewelry and accessories.
Wisps of smoke escape from the last embers in a black barrel smoker, the only evidence that whole chickens had been roasting beneath the closed lid earlier in the morning. The smoky smell mingles with the scents of meats sizzling on the grill and sauces and soups simmering out of sight in food trucks and trailers parked in a loose circle around picnic tables and open-sided tents in an Aurora parking lot.
The owner of that smoker is Tacos y Pollos ZaZaZa, which sells whole, half and quarter birds, as well as chicken burritos, tacos and quesadillas, from a yellow-and-red trailer at La Esquina Del Sabor, a truck rally of sorts at 15200 East Colfax Avenue.