Like the pure Colorado air he loves, the food that Bennito Sarlo serves at Armando’s is fresh and wholesome. “We do everything here,” said the Neapolitan restaurateur who got into the biz with his brothers Antonio and Armando in 1987, not too many years after the family landed in New York City from Naples in the early 80s. Preferring the Denver air and (relatively) less traffic to NYC, they opened Armando’s in Cherry Creek, and then nine years ago moved to a very small shopping strip in Englewood off Hampden Avenue between Gilpin and Lafayette Sts. Those of you who like hole-in-the-wall authentic Italian joints can bookmark it—it’s a keeper.
