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NFL WAG Katya Suh opens chic cocktail bar, Kaya: ‘Finding my voice’

  2024-03-24 pagesixFrancesca Bacardi24740
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Katya Suh is taking her cocktails from YouTube to the real world.The wife of NFL free agent Ndamukong Suh has opened a c

NFL WAG Katya Suh opens chic cocktail bar, Kaya: ‘Finding my voice’

Katya Suh is taking her cocktails from YouTube to the real world.

The wife of NFL free agent Ndamukong Suh has opened a chic cocktail bar, Kaya, in Portland, Ore., as a project she could have for herself amid her busy life as a mother of twin boys and a full-time WAG.

“I think when we have a partner or, you know, we have kids, our own personal lives really start to take up a lot of our world,” Katya tells Pvnew exclusively.

katya suh, Ndamukong suh and their twin boys in a jacuzzi on the ocean
She decided to pursue the venture to have something for herself separate from her husband, Ndamukong Suh, and their twin boys. katyasuh/Instagram
interior of Kaya's bar in portland, ore.
“I found myself needing to fill my bucket but not really knowing how,” she tells Pvnew. Katya Suh
interior of Kaya bar (tables against an open patio)
A licensed realtor by trade, Katya took her love of interior design to outfit her space with luxury fixtures from Restoration Hardware, CB2 and more. Katya Suh

“I found myself needing to fill my bucket but not really knowing how.”

Katya, 33, launched “Kicks & Cocktails,” a YouTube series dedicated to exploring stylish sneakers paired with alcoholic beverages, in 2022 and decided to take that idea and expand it into what now has become Kaya.

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Her love of basketball also inspired her to buy these planters for Kaya’s patio. Katya Suh
three paintings of rappers hanging on a wall
She also commissioned a black painter from Boston to depict some of her favorite artists. Katya Suh
a corner table with a portrait of tupac hanging above it
“The whole point right is to highlight folks coming in and their BIPOC community and bringing in the hip-hop and R&B music,” she says. Katya Suh

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A licensed realtor by trade, Katya took her real estate knowledge and love of interior design to build the cocktail bar of her dreams outfitted with luxury fixtures from Restoration Hardware, CB2 and more. She is also a passionate basketball player, so she used that as inspiration for Kaya’s patio, which features hoops and basketball planters.

“I think that basketball, street style, that’s kind of the blend with Kaya. You’re getting luxury with street style,” she says. “The whole idea with Kaya is that you come for a luxury experience; you come to have a really great, fun time … I call it an in-depth cocktail.

“You’re gonna have a lot of palettes, a lot of things going on, and that’s like what we want to be known for, but also the aesthetic is a big part of it right. The feeling and the ambience of a place is important.”

Katya commissioned a black Boston painter to create art of people who have “impacted” her life, from Biggie and Tupac to Michael Jordan and LL Cool J.

a wall of hanging plants
Kaya opened in December. Katya Suh
exterior of Kaya bar in portland, ore
She just came up with a tequila cocktail named after her husband, which she’s dubbed the “RNS” for “really nice smile.” Katya Suh

“The whole point is to highlight folks coming in and their BIPOC community and bringing in the hip-hop and R&B music,” she says, adding that the bar will feature hits from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s.

“We really want to bring in the intimacy and the conversation and the excellence and the luxury of a restaurant vibe, but we’re not a restaurant — we’re more of, like, a high-end bar.”

Although Katya sees her new venture as a project independent of her family, she reveals to us that she finally landed on a tequila cocktail named after husband, which she has dubbed the “RNS” for “really nice smile.”

(By/Francesca Bacardi)
 
 
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