First Taste: Palo Alto's Macarena is a Michelin-backed love song to Spain.

First Taste: Palo Alto's Macarena is a Michelin-backed love song to Spain.

Opening a restaurant—especially in a cutthroat culinary landscape like the Bay Area—is an exercise in vulnerability.Opening a restaurant dedicated to your homeland, though, goes beyond just vulnerability. It’s “like taking one of your organs out, putting it on the table, and letting people punch it over and over,” says David Linares.The tender body part under assault by the proverbial fists of Bay Area eaters is the Peninsula’s Spanish newcomer,…