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Dining Review: Palo Tapas Bar
The Providence newcomer is a culinary love letter to southern Spain.
January 29, 2021
Quesos y embutidos. Photography by Angel Tucker.
Samir Zaiter, owner of Palo Tapas Bar, isn’t interested in riffs as much as romance his love affair with Southern Spain so pronounced that he left corporate America in pursuit of a culinary homage. In the midst of a prolonged restaurant crisis, Zaiter has taken over the old 3 Steeple Street space and turned it into a cross-cultural mecca. The building one of the state’s oldest industrial-related examples is roughly 200 years old and its history shows in dense aesthetics. Zaiter has accentuated its Colonial roots exposed stone and iron piping with Spanish posters and Moorish textiles. The space is moody in all the right ways, a vision of intimacy desperately longed for.