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TLO Restaurant Review: FRIDA Southwest

A few weeks ago, I was supposed to finally go to the long-admired, extremely vaunted, and utterly unique FRIDA Southwest restaurant, located at 500 Paseo, in the Paseo District. I have waited for so very long for FRIDA, come Hell, high water, or a many-layered combination of the two.

TLO Restaurant Review: FRIDA Southwest

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A few weeks ago, I was supposed to finally go to the long-admired, extremely vaunted, and utterly unique FRIDA Southwest restaurant, located at 500 Paseo, in the Paseo District.

I have waited for so very long for FRIDA, come Hell, high water, or a many-layered combination of the two.

But, true to form, God laughs at our plans, as I had to have emergency back surgery a couple weeks ago, necessitating serious time to truly recuperate.

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A few weeks ago, I was supposed to finally go to the long-admired, extremely vaunted, and utterly unique FRIDA Southwest restaurant, located at 500 Paseo, in the Paseo District. I have waited for so very long for FRIDA, come Hell, high water, or a many-layered combination of the two. But, true to form, God laughs at our plans, as I had to have emergency back surgery a couple weeks ago, necessitating serious time to truly recuperate.

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