RoPa Restaurant Opens Sept. 2nd

Good news, Rogers Park foodies! The long-anticipated RoPa restaurant will open next week. This is contrary to the fear that they would not open and highlights some very bad reporting by one of the local bloggers, who wrote that the owners had "apparently run into some kind of problem." They haven't, and they will soon be serving lamb kebabs. Owner Tirak told The Bench today that RoPa Restaurant and Wine Bar will open at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2. RoPa (a contraction of "Rogers Park"). They will specialize in upscale Mediterranean-American cuisine. RoPa is located in the former space of Suron, a Persian restaurant, at 1146 W. Pratt Blvd., just east of the 7-Eleven on the northeast corner of N. Sheridan Road and W. Pratt Avenue in Rogers Park, just steps from Lake Michigan.