Denver's Sakura Square Is Home to Two Restaurants
This historic LoDo development and former center of the city's Japantown is home to Sakura House, JJ Bistro and Pacific Mercantile Company.
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This historic LoDo development and former center of the city's Japantown is home to Sakura House, JJ Bistro and Pacific Mercantile Company.
Meet the Mother-Daughter Duos Behind Pacific Mercantile and Truong An Gifts The two long-standing family enterprises are at the heart of Denver’s hubs for Asian American culture, community, and commerce.Patricia Kaowthumrong • On a frigid Monday morning in late December, Jolie Noguchi leads me through Pacific Mercantile Co. in Sakura Square, a grocery store her family has owned for nearly 77 years. It’s 7:30 a.m. and the shop’s doors won’t open to customers for another hour and a half. Jolie walks me past refrigerator cases filled with containers of fresh miso and colorful cell...