Sala One Nine

This Flatiron restaurant offers traditional Spanish cuisine, from tapas to paella. Start with some pinchos, or bar snacks, like simple pan con tomate ($6), tuna with piquillo pepper and aioli ($12) and grilled filet mignon with valdeon cheese and caramelized onions ($11). If you’d like to keep snacking on light bites, order a Spanish feast of tapas to share with your dinner companions. You might get bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with marcona almonds ($9), tortilla espanola with chorizo ($17), grilled octopus with potatoes ($19), albondigas meatballs with brandy sauce ($18), roasted cauliflower ($12) and fried goat cheese with candied onions and clover honey ($16). Especially hungry? Get a the slow-braised lamb shank with Swiss chard and potatoes ($26), roasted chicken with chickpeas and spinach ($23) or the paella with mussels, clams, shrimp and calamari ($21 per person with a minimum order of two).