LOFT

Very nice restaurant, with perfect service (from Christina) and very good food. They accommodated us with a gluten free allergy and even our pet! Only managed to capture the last bite of the GF chocolate cake!!

Greasy calamari."Dusted calamari" server told us it was bread crumbs but on menu it was listed as gluten free (server said he didn't know about that). Grilled asparagus/ bacon/cheese/pine nut app had fresh asparagus but seemed like just ingredients thrown together. Not a cohesive dish. Focaccia was twice as thick as typical focaccia. Absolutely no flavor despite being topped w salt and a few olives. Manhattan was very frothy and seemed to lack sweet vermouth. Entrees consisted of mushroom. Gnocchi and calamari/shrimp marinara and pasta. Pasta cooked well, large shrimp and good amount of calamari but it was hidden underneath what looked like 3 plus cups of sauce w a pool of oil on top. Sauce had visible onions, Parsley, basil, and onions in it but for some reason had no flavor. Gnocchi dish had no flavor at all. We do have taste buds and have had delicious meals all over Door County so far this trip. Service was overly attentive to the point of the server coming every 3-5 minutes (yes, we timed after a while) to see if we wanted to place our order. On a Monday dinner reservation the place was not busy at all. We waited to place our entrees after apps were delivered thankfully because the entrees came out within 10 minutes. The look of the restaurant is beautiful w the 2 levels, water features, and open air dining but the music selection didn't seem to add to the ambiance of the place... Billy Jean and Jessie's Girl are 2 examples. IN RESPONSE to Manager response-really, what was a young kid/server going to do about the food quality? Was the Manager going to go back into the kitchen and re cook the food? And we wait for it? Our party did not eat all of the calamari and did not eat all the "house made bread" despite dipping it in the oil/basalmic mixture. It didn't help it sorry to say.We ate all of our entrees except for the 3 cups of marinara left in the bowl because it was $29.45 for the seafood marinara dish and $31.95 for the whitefish gnocci (prices are per website). We rarely experience negative quality food when dining out and hesitated to write OUR review of Loft because we saw the place full on the top deck on Sunday night. But it is OUR review of OUR experience at Loft. We're sorry to now experience push back from the Manager after writing our review.

We ended a girls’ day in Door County with dinner here, and everything was just perfect. The setting was lovely, our server was friendly and efficient, and food was delicious, there was something for everyone. We enjoyed the Addictive Asparagus and a gorgeous beet goat cheese tower appetizer, chicken mushroom asparagus, grilled garlic shrimp, and a curried zucchini noodle dish was a great gluten free entree. A chilled crisp bottle of rosè was the finishing touch. Lovely summer memory.