The Loop Restaurant - Durham/Broad Street

I love the Loop for comfort food. You can get specialty pizzas or a healthy salad. Their burgers and soups are really good too! Sometimes the food may take a while but it really depends on the day and time. Otherwise I would still be back to continue to try more of their items!I love the variety they offer!

Close to museum. Great food selection. Pizza was crispy. Pesto chicken fanatic was tasty!

We popped in for lunch today. Had a beautiful Gorgonzola salad with sundried tomatoes and candied walnuts. We woofed that down, so no pictures. Then we got the portabella and bacon pizza and let me tell you, it was worth every penny of the 17.99. ...from the crust to the abundance of bacon, mushrooms and carmalized onions...absolutely delicious. So glad this place is just blocks from our new house and we will go back. Just one note: don't expect charismatic or friendly service if you're looking for that. It's more like no frills, no personality or even no response to some questions we had.

Average place with a decent menu. It's a self help place. Order your food and come back to pick it up. Self service for drinks, silverware and condiments. The menu has a small variety of choices. They do serve alcoholic drinks but no menu so you have to look at the display at a distance. I ordered the French onion soup which was more creamy than a broth. Not much flavor and pricey for the serving. The onion rings were big. The type you bite and the whole onion comes out. The bleu cheese chips were good and had the right amount of cheese on them. The pizza was mediocre at best. Not a lot of toppings including the cheese and sauce. They do offer milkshakes that look delicious but the food is basic

I got a chicken garden salad today. Service is great and the ambiance is just outstanding with outdoor dining area if you want to use it.

BLUF: adding The Loop to my rotation of lunch spots. Food: 8.2/10 and as always the company: 10/10Stopped by The Loop after a night out in Raleigh, as I was starting to feel the full effects of a zillion beers and 5 am Cookout the night before. Facing the consequences of your actions can be a real SOB. Needed something fresh and light to absolve me from this hangover; like trying to stick a piece of duct tape on the Titanic as it's going down. I digress and less about me and my poor decision making and more about The Loop. Going to stray from my typical review style and talk through this one sequentially. Walking into any lunch spot at 1pm and seeing it mostly empty made me raise and eyebrow. Not sure if they make their money on takeout/to-go but seeing a spot so quiet can make real hesitant. Hesitation was immediately removed after seeing this ice (see photo) flowing out of the drink machine. If you know anything about anything you know this ice is far superior to ice in any other form. Ordering is cafeteria style, which I like but if you are expecting 20% tip when I'm forced to do all the things that waiters do then we probably wouldn't get along. The menu offers a range of lunch food that honestly all sounded good, enticing me to come back and try something new. Food was on the money, fresh, simple ingredients that all work well together.

Place was dirty and very busy so not tidying up is understandable especially since they appeared to be short handed. Then I noticed a big guy sitting with a young girl his shirt said Loop on it. By the appearance of it he must be someone important because there was a laptop on the table .Awful Terrible leadership He should have been CLEANING OR HELPING THE POOR KID WORKING the counter. I keep trying this place , lunch with work mates is always delicious. Seems when I go for dinner with my family it's ALWAYS Something bad. I so terribly want this to be a favorite but at this point I have decided NOT

Amazing Food, Stellar Service and Awesome AmbianceHighly recommend the Loop!! I'm from out of town and was hesitant at finding a place for dinner but I'm so glad we came into The Loop! I have a tomato allergy but wanted to try the Olivia's Eden Pinsa so asked for pesto sauce and they delivered! It was so tasty! So crispy and fresh tasting 10/10 recommend

If you want the loop food go to Chapel Hill. They always have good service and food. This one in Durham was not good at all. We were almost the only ones in there at mid day and it took a long time to get food and then the pizza was burnt and yet served to us cold.

Delicious and healthy. Great selection of food. We will be back! Wish the WiFi was easier to access.