Tapas Bar in Bonita occupies the lounge side of the Plascencia Group's Mexiterranean complex at 4342 Bonita Road, pouring Baja California wines, San Diego craft beers, and specialty cocktails alongside a small-plates menu that fuses Mediterranean and Mexican technique. The Plascencia Group — whose portfolio includes Casa Plascencia, Caesar's, Villa Saverios, and Giuseppi's — launched the Bonita location in 2005 under Chef Javier Plascencia, and the tapas program treats seafood with the same ingredient-sourcing discipline found at dedicated Chula Vista fish counters T & M Seafood. Spanish-influenced decor features dark wood, bullfight paintings, and an intimate bar layout that doubles as a live-music venue with rotating DJs and acoustic sets on weekend evenings. The tamarindo martini and Baja wine flights anchor the cocktail program, pairing with shared plates that pull from both coasts of the peninsula — a cross-cultural curatorial approach echoed by the exhibition programming at Bonita Museum & Cultural Center further along Bonita Road. The kitchen builds its signature octopus tapa by confiting the tentacles in olive oil before finishing them on a high-heat plancha with smoked paprika, charred lemon, and a romesco sauce blended from roasted red peppers and Marcona almonds.