Loops

I ate a pleasant meal yesterday [7-1-2022] at LOOPS Chicago Style Eatery [at 1629 Northwest Blvd.] in the "Fifth by Northwest" neighborhood of Columbus.

I have ridden past LOOPS many times, during the past several years, on the #3 COTA bus, but I had never been able to figure out if they are indeed open when I pass because of the consistently-low level of lighting in their dining room.

Before leaving my apartment yesterday, I visited their website and made my food choices; I then took a #3 COTA bus to travel there. Had they been closed, I would have eaten at one of the many other restaurants in the "Fifth by Northwest" neighborhood.

My food choices [that I had made in advance of my visit] had been a "Chicago Fire Dog" [served with "fire slaw" and "sport peppers" on a poppy seed bun] and Spanakopita [fresh spinach, feta cheese, and onions wrapped and baked in filo dough]. I also ordered a small container of Tzatziki sauce [for a small additional charge] to eat alternately with my spanakopita.

The spanakopita had been quite difficult to eat because it had been served in an aluminum-foil-lined basket and the only available eating utensils had been plastic.

It had been nearly impossible for me to successfully cut the spanakopita into bite-size pieces without also cutting into the foil [and thereby risk touching my knife to the table immediately below my basket]. I had to be exceedingly careful to make sure that each bite of spanakopita did not contain a piece of aluminum foil.

Exacerbating the difficulty of eating the spanakopita had been that the filo dough had been microwaved [rather than heated in a regular oven] with the result that it had been nearly impossible for me to separate the cut pieces of spanakopita from the remainder of the spanakopita without inadvertently picking up the entire piece, burning myself on a hanging-down-and-still-partially-connected piece, and/or tearing the aluminum foil further.

I am quite interested that much of the food that LOOPS sells is Greek yet one would never guess that based on their name.

The next time I visit LOOPS, I plan to order something besides spanakopita; I definitely plan to order and eat something that is specifically Greek, for example, a gyro or a shawarma.