From dim sum to Mexican at the Mee Yee Lin space

Mee Yee Lin was once the town's best dim sum restaurant. But that was before Super Star Asian moved into Alameda Square, and Mee Yee Lin left its down-at-the-heels home at 3090 West Alameda for a much bigger space out east, at 2295 South Chambers Road in Aurora. My meals...

By Patricia Calhoun

November 11, 2008

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Mee Yee Lin was once the town's best dim sum restaurant. But that was before Super Star Asian moved into Alameda Square, and Mee Yee Lin left its down-at-the-heels home at 3090 West Alameda for a much bigger space out east, at 2295 South Chambers Road in Aurora. My meals there were always disappointing, and apparently others thought so, too, because it went dark this summer, as reported at the end of this Bite Me.

And now construction is under way at the space Mee Yee Lin vacated on South Chambers. It's going south of the border for its new tenant: El Viva Villa Mexican restaurant. -- Jason Sheehan

Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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