Five years after the closure of Randolfi’s Italian Kitchen, there’s a new restaurant serving up wood-fired pies in the space on the Delmar Loop: In Da Loop (6665-B Delmar).
Military veterans Demadison Fife and Darren Newman opened the restaurant in early February. It uses the same storied oven that once powered The Good Pie and Randolfi’s. The massive oven churns out other menu items as well, including house-made pizza rolls, wings, meatballs, and a cooked-to-order Woodfire Burger. Salad and soup options are also available, including a ‘pizza soup’ (with pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, onions, mozzarella, and homemade croutons). Among the appetizers: air-fried toasted raviolis, portobello mushroom dip, and a generous portion of oysters Rockerfeller.
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The interior is sleek and simple, with red table cloths and walls, wooden tables, black-and-white mosaic floors, and decorative wood panelling. A raised stage will also host live music, poetry readings, karaoke, and podcast recordings. “It will be on a variety of topics,” Fife says of the podcast. “It will feature voices from the community. It’s all about engaging people, exchanging ideas, and seeing how we can become better as a people.”
In Da Loop is open 11 a.m.– 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.–2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday.
