Twisted Tapas Some Hair Metal With Your Goat Cheese

• Ted Cox
• “Just steps from the lake . . . “

For several years this spot on Pratt Boulevard “just steps from the lake,” as the rental ads would tout it, was home to Cafe Suron, a decent BYO Middle Eastern restaurant that closed only when the owners retired. The neighborhood hasn’t had much luck with the space in the five years or so since. RoPa, Cafe Suron’s first replacement, was a wine bar with a list full of ludicrously marked-up grocery-store critter labels; Aqua, its short-lived second, always seemed to be closed.

Then back in October, Twisted Tapas moved in, and while I can’t say the name was much of a beacon—does it remind anyone else of Twisted Sister?—well, what’s in a name? Twist, its earlier incarnation, had had a decent run in Lakeview, and judging from Twisted Tapas’ Facebook page, plenty of people like it too.