The restaurant is the successor to the 224 King St. building, which previously housed the Present Moment Café, a raw and vegan restaurant sharing much of the same values. After two owners and 14 years of love from St. Augustine s vegan community, it closed permanently on July 11 of last year. For Buena Onda, the streetside location in West King makes it anything but a secret, allowing for plenty of business in its first couple of weeks. [It s been] amazing, said Jaclyn Briand, Buena Onda s manager. The community has definitely picked us up into their arms, and we even have a lot of people coming in because they knew the Present Moment Café.