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Charlotte Renner - Feb 7, 2024 | Frida's is an award-winning, eco-friendly restaurant that gets it's name from owner Natasha Kwan's cat, given as an homage to Frida Kahlo. TThe restaurant recently reopened with a more flexitarian menu, but the vegan menu still abounds with options. Frida's is known for…

Jessica BuelerFebruary 7, 2024

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BY BILL MORAN // SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 | When you want to get away without actually getting away, visit the Bonito Bar in University City. Technically, the bar shares the same space as Frida’s restaurant, but the room has been designed to give the bar its own identity, with a curved marble…

Jessica BuelerSeptember 2, 2023

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Bonito Bar brings new life and great drinks to Frida’s in University City

BY LIZ WOLFSON // JUNE 7, 2023 |The cocktail list reflects this equatorial setting through fruity, well-balanced drinks made with top-shelf spirits, like The Bonito, which combines two different rums with blood orange aperitif, pineapple, lime and agave, and Oaxaca’s Last Word, made with El Buho mezcal, green chartreuse, maraschino…

Jessica BuelerJune 7, 2023

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Frida’s reopens in University City along with Bonito Bar, a small but stunning new space

George Mahe | Mar 20, 2023 | The long-awaited Bonito Bar officially opened its doors last weekend alongside Frida’s, which had been closed for renovations since last spring. Bonito Bar is located in a former alterations shop space between Frida’s and Diego’s Cantina along North and South Avenue, just north…

Jessica BuelerMarch 20, 2023

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Frida’s, Bonito Bar Set To Open in University City

Jessica Rogen | Mar 14, 2023 | Two highly anticipated concepts are set to open their doors this month in University City. Natasha Kwan and Rick Roloff's Frida's and Bontio Bar are accepting reservations for a grand reopening for the former and an opening for the latter on Saturday, March…

Jessica BuelerMarch 14, 2023

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Bonito Bar, from the owner of Frida’s and Diego’s, coming to University City

GEORGE MAHE | April 14, 2022Frida’s and Diego’s Cantina will soon be united—perhaps fitting, given the restaurants' namesakes.Bonito Bar, named after artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s pet parrot, will soon fill the space between Natasha Kwan and Rick Roloff's two University City restaurants, which previously housed an alterations business.…

Jessica BuelerApril 14, 2022

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Owners of Frida’s and Diego’s will open Bonito Bar this summer in University City

ADAM ROTHBARTH | April 13, 2022Later this year, fans of Frida’s will get to enjoy a whole new experience when Bonito Bar opens inside the restaurant. “It’s really Frida’s bar,” explained co-owner Natasha Kwan. “We’ve been serving liquor for almost 10 years. Still, no one knows we have alcohol! Oh…

Jessica BuelerApril 13, 2022

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Diego’s, a husband restaurant to Frida’s, opens tomorrow in University City

George Mahe | Oct 12, 2020“The day has finally come,” quips Natasha Kwan, co-owner of Diego’s Mexican restaurant which opens tomorrow, “It only took 22 months.”Planning a restaurant, especially retrofitting an exciting one, is never easy because of the unknowns, “and there were a lot of them,” says Kwan regarding…

Jessica BuelerOctober 12, 2020