Strengths: Tasty tomato sauce, good hand-spun shakes
Weaknesses: Mushy thin crust and greeease galore.
Since we were in an unfamiliar neighborhood, we allowed our Dash GPS to pick our lunch spot. A quick search of eateries along our route produced an entry for The Loop Pizza Grill, a joint we’d never seen nor heard of … so we punched the Route button, punched Go, and placed our appetites in the fickle hands of culinary fate.
Things started well. My chocolate shake — hand-spun, decorated nicely with swirls of chocolate sauce and real whipped cream — was tasty, served in a chilled glass with a generous portion of leftover shake passed along in a stainless steel tumbler.
But when our trusty test-pie (thin crust pepperoni) arrived, we were disappointed by the generous, shiny layer of grease on top. After sopping some of this off as best we could, we each tried a slice. The sauce — the highlight of the dish — tasted bright and fresh … but alas, the crust was more gummy than crisp, and, instead of a rich pepperoni flavor, the pie tasted mostly of salt.
Verdict: The Loop’s pie is a cut above food court pizza — but not by much — and definitely not a competitor with the pizza-by-the-slice being served daily at Whole Foods.
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