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Contributed by: Michael Robinson on 7/9/2006

Junz Restaurant
11211 S. Dransfeldt Rd.
Parker, CO
Ph. 720-851-1005
Grade - A

The MSM (Main Stream Media) stereotype of suburbia being one vaccuous, monochromatic nursery is simply wrong. These MSM stereotypes of life in suburbia are visible along the main freeway passages where the big chain restaurants and big boxes lie. However, a little deeper into the pockets of suburbia is a thriving culture available to families without the drive into LoDo. Life in the new America where the smart, educated, motivated, hip and fashionable young families planted their lives, the new America yet to be discovered by the MSM, is embodied in Junz Restaurant, started and run by Jun Makino.

Junz is located in a modern, nondescript strip center. But, Junz is unlike other restaurants with its sushi chefs engaged in the tedious yet artistic work of sushi making while also carrying on conversations at the sushi bar and greeting customers with a Japanese welcome that is rather like a drum beat.

Junz is a combination restaurant. It is a French Epicurian Restaurant with a great head chef, Bika Barombadar, making Culinary Masterpieces of the simple (potatoes) and complex (Chilean Sea Bass). It is a true Japanese Sushi restaurant with a longtime Japanese Sushi Chef, Higashi who can make the raw, basic ingredients of the ancient Japanese Culinary Art of Sushi come to life. You can see a streaming video of Junz Chefs at work at Signature Dishes of Colorado. It is an Art experience from the time you enter the premises until you leave. And then the great shock.

As you leave, you are not in Lodo, Downtown, or the Tech Center. You are in Parker, in a new development with its history newly forming. The building is circa 2002, not 1872. This may be a negative if you are a Gen X single living off of Wazee St. in Denver, but if you are a married Parker couple with a small child or two being watched by a babysitter, its pretty nice.

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Castle Rock , CO

Michael Robinson has posted 421 stories and 29 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Michael Robinson's average story rating is 4.35.

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