The team behind Customshop will open Marina’s Tapas in Optimist Hall this summer, paying homage to chef Andres Kaifer’s great-grandmother and offering a no-frills menu of traditional Spanish bites, ranging from $9-$15.

Kaifer, the culinary force behind Customshop and now co-owner of Marina’s Tapas, puts it simply: “This is going to be paper plates and good food … simple, straightforward, honest.”

For Kaifer and co-owner Alex Bridges, “good food” looks like a set menu of bonafide Spanish tapas that could be found at any tapería in the streets of Barcelona, Madrid or maybe even in Asturias, Spain, where Kaifer’s great-grandmother, Marina, ran the kitchen of a now nearly 100-year-old tapería.

Kaifer, with a “life’s worth of travels” visiting his family in Spain, will infuse Spanish ingredients and techniques into the stall formerly occupied by Velvet Taco.

“It’s really an homage to what I grew up eating when I was a kid,” Kaifer said…

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