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DINING Frommer
La Paella
214 E. 9th St
(Btwn Second and Third Aves)
tel.: 212/598-4321
Location: Btwn Second and Third Aves
Cuisine: Spanish/Portuguese
Price Category: Moderate

Always-consistent La Paella serves up some of the best tapas in town -- if not the best, especially for the money -- and the paella can hardly be outdone. This is fun eating, the kind of place where patrons return again and again to wash down fish croquettes, chorizos, and green olives with bottles of chilled Negro Modela, a dark Mexican brew that goes well with the flavorful menu of (primarily) grilled delights. There's also a terrific sangria, served in generous pitchers by the frisky waitstaff, many of whom seem as though they just blew in from Madrid. Tapas here are more generously apportioned than at many other places; the grilled calamari is a perfectly sized appetizer without being overwhelming. The tapas and paellas are well priced, but it's easy to run up a tab in this festive setting, which tends to attract large parties after 8pm.

Tapas $4.50-$9; paella for 2 $22-$36.Open: Daily 5pm-midnight.Reservations accepted Sun-Thurs.Credit Cards: MC, V.Subway: 6 to Astor Place; N, R to 8th St.


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