2010 Fall Dining Guide By Tom Sietsema Sunday, October 17, 2010 Visiting this Logan Circle small-plates restaurant, dashingly dressed in antique tiles and iron chandeliers, you'd never guess that chef Haidar Karoum and owner Mark Kuller were unschooled in Spanish cuisine until this year. Karoum makes a fine chorizo sandwich (featuring house-baked bread), grills a tender octopus and turns out a classic tortilla Espanola. If some of his small entrees, or raciones, taste as if they belong in the modern-American Proof across town, where Karoum also cooks and which Kuller also owns, at least they're a pleasure. Not to be missed: succulent chicken presented on jalapeno-spiked yogurt and topped with a minty slaw, and tender sweetbreads served with crisp lardons and tiny green beans. Hard to miss: the exposed flesh on the murals in both the men's and women's restrooms.
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