Don’t be deterred by Plaza Flamingo’s slightly cheesy exterior, the food here is exceptional. Their authentic Spanish dishes that include the Paella, rice meddled with an assortment of seafood, meat or veggies, are oven-baked and will leave your lips smacking for more. Their Tapas menu is also very extensive and well-priced.

On Fridays and Saturdays, diners are entertained by voluptuous flamenco dancers in large flowing dresses, tapping and grinding their heels on the wooden panels to an authoritative beat to the signor’s Spanish guitar.

Upstairs, there is a weekend salsa club. If you come early enough, you may catch some free lessons taught by a man who looks like Steven Segal’s long lost twin. –A.C.