A new breakfast option

I’m sure that many if not most of you have seen the ads posted in this newspaper for the past couple of weeks advertising Loop Brewing Company new breakfast menu. They’ve been open for several years now, featuring craft brews plus lunch and dinner and decided to branch into breakfast. A couple that I’m good friends with went the very first day Loop’s served breakfast and raved about it so me and some other friends decided we would try it too. This column is not a paid advertisement for Loop Brewing Company and is based on personal opinion only.

Four of us met at Loop’s yesterday morning at 8 a.m. and, as luck would have it, we all ordered different things. We all drank coffee which is free with any breakfast purchase and we all thought that was a great marketing tool because in most restaurants, a cup of Java adds another couple of dollars to your bill. Jim ordered the breakfast burrito, Bruce a fried egg, breakfast potatoes and a sausage patty, Tom had biscuits and gravy and I decided on two eggs scrambled, breakfast potatoes and ham.

There were no complaints from anyone as we hungrily consumed our food. Bruce said he preferred hash browns to breakfast potatoes but that was really an expression of personal preference rather than a criticism of the breakfast potatoes. In fact, they were cooked in peppers which gave an extra punch to an already good product.

Tom bragged about the biscuits and gravy, primarily because the gravy contained a lot of sausage. That’s something I’ve yet to get accustomed to because being raised in the South, we never put sausage in our white gravy. White gravy only is used over our biscuits, chicken fried steak, fried chicken or whatever.

Jim had surgery not long ago and can’t eat as much as he used to so he gave Tom half of his breakfast burrito in exchange for one of Tom’s biscuits and gravy.

You have the option of ordering either a half order or a full order of biscuits and gravy and we all agreed that a half-order was the way to go in the future. But I’m sure big appetites will want the full order which covers a large plate completely.

We have a lot of places to eat in McCook but few places where you can sit down with family and friends and be waited on. Loop’s became part of that picture a few years ago and is now offering breakfast in the same style. No complaints were heard about the meal or the service which means we now have another option to choose from when we’re craving breakfast some morning.

Their menu contains just about anything anybody could want to get their day started and it’s all prepared by Suzy Mueller’s daughter, Crystal, who moved here from Colorado a few weeks ago and was hired to be the primary breakfast chef.

You’re usually not going to see her since she will be busy cooking but you’ll see the products of her labor when your breakfast is placed in front of you.

Crystal told us that currently weekdays are the best options for having a quick breakfast because the weekends tend to be busy but hopefully that will change too as the good word gets out about the quality and presentation of their breakfasts.

Give them a try some morning. I think you’ll be glad you did.