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Few local restaurants are as sexy as Shawn Cirkiel’s Bullfight. Maybe it’s the lighting, or the almost encyclopedic selection of sherries (nerds are sexy too), or the indoor-outdoor space. But we always have our rom-com moment when we bite into tapas like branzino crudo or veal sweetbreads a la plancha. We don’t even need a date.

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