Tapas are the new normal and Spanish food is all over town, but few do it as well as Carmen. Fried artichokes with aïoli are ungreasy, cute ‘n’ sweet. Shishito peppers (small chiles with small heat) are slightly blistered and sit pretty on chile-kissed tomato sauce. Pintxo de pulpo is #1: Crusty toast painted with tomato sauce under fab octopus with confit potato and moist chorizo. But before you start inhaling tapas, order paella cause it takes 45 minutes to get to the table. Worth the wait.