The Loop

965 Manitou Ave, Manitou Springs
(719) 685-9344

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Cheese Enchiladas w Fried Potatoes & Carrots
Pork Tamales and Tostada
California Burrito
Carne Asada Plate
Hawaiian Fajitas
Fried Ice Cream
Chicken Fajitas
Chips and Salsa
Enchilada Trio
Coconut Shrimp

Menu

Appetizers
Veggie Tempura
Zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms tempura style served with two special dipping sauces served only at the loop with a Mexican flare.
Ceviche Tropical (Served Cold)
Shrimp, fish, mango, jalapeno, cilantro, lemon, and lime juice combined.
Ceviche (Served Cold)
A favorite in Mexico is fish, tomato, onion, jalapeno, cucumbers, lemon, lime juice, and avocado diced and combined a favorite of the staff.
White Queso
A spicy white cheese dip from California made with pepper jack cheese, sour cream, and jalapeno peppers served in a hot skillet with flour tortilla chips.
Mini Chimis
Miniature burritos, deep-fried, filled with your choice of chicken, garlic beef, or shredded beef served with green sauce and sour cream.
Coconut Shrimp
Five large Butterfield shrimp breaded with baked coconut flakes and deep fried served with a mango sauce for dipping and a side of ceviche.
Shrimp Acapulco
Five tiger shrimp wrapped in bacon, stuffed with green pepper and onion, deep-fried, and served on a bed of nachos with sour cream, olives, jalapenos, and pico.
Quesadilla
A large flour tortilla stuffed with jack and cheddar cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.
Quesadilla Supreme
A large flour tortilla filled with jack and cheddar cheese and your choice of meat topped with black olives, jalapenos, pico de gallo sour cream, and guacamole served on the side.
Chili Con Queso
A creamy yellow jalapeno cheese dip served with corn tortilla chips.
Spinach Quesadilla
A large flour tortilla filled with spinach and cheese guacamole and sour cream on the side.
Taquitos
Shredded beef, garlic beef, or chicken rolled in corn tortillas and deep-fried topped with shredded cabbage, tomatoes, and crema served with guacamole, sour cream, and salsa on the side.
Nachos Especial
Corn chips loaded with refried beans, jack and cheddar cheese, black olives, pico de gallo, and jalapenos choice of shredded beef, garlic beef, or chicken served with sour cream and guacamole.
Baja Buzzard Fingers
Tender chicken fillets with honey mustard sauce for dipping served with french fries.

Taco Salads
Taco Salad
A large tortilla filled with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapenos, pico de gallo, black olives, sour cream, cheese, and guacamole.

Fajitas
Steak and Chicken Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Steak and Shrimp Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Chicken Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Chicken and Shrimp Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Shrimp Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Vegetarian Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Steak Fajita
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.
Hawaiian Fajitas
Served with rice, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, and tortillas.

Chicken
Molcajete
A traditional dish from Mexico served in a stone container that keeps the food warm for a long time sautéed chicken pork, and steak in a spicy poblano sauce served with nopal cactus, cheese, jalapenos, and onions served with tortillas, and a house salad.
Enchiladas Chicken and Spinach
Two enchiladas stuffed with grilled chicken, spinach, and cheese smothered with poblano sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Chicken Rice (Arroz Con Pollo)
Sautéed chicken breast onion, mushrooms, and green and red peppers in a mildly spiced red sauce served over rice with melted cheese and tortillas on the side.
Pollo Herron
Sautéed chicken breast mixed with veggies in a smooth sour cream sauce served over rice and topped with melted cheese served with tempura veggies.

Steak
Carne Asada
Tender sirloin marinated in freshly squeezed lime juice and grilled served with rice and refried beans, guacamole pico de gallo, and flour tortillas.
Loop Combo
Sirloin steak 4 ounces grilled with your choice of a chile Relleno or an enchilada served with rice, refried beans, and tortillas.
Tacos El Carbon
Five small corn tortillas filled with marinated sirloin, cilantro, and onion served with house-made salsa.

Pork
Chili Verde
Tender pork in a Mexican stew served with tortillas (very spicy).
Chili Verde Dinner
A bowl of chili Verde served with rice, beans, and tortillas (very spicy).
Tacos El Pastor
Five small corn tortillas filled with pork, cilantro, and onion served with house-made salsa.
Chili Colorado
Small pieces of pork are slow-roasted and bathed in a savory red sauce served with rice, beans, and Ensalada.

A La Carte
Taco, Enchilada, Tostada, Chile Relleno, Tamale
Guacamole
House Salad
Sour Cream
Rice
Beans
Chips
Salsa
Borracho Beans

Mains
Shrimp De Crème
Shrimp sautéed with green and red peppers, cherry tomatoes, spinach, cream, and parmesan cheese served with rice and beans a delicious flavor.
Chili Colorado
Slow-cooked bite-sized pork (melt in your mouth tender) bathed in a delicious red sauce served with rice and beans.
Ceviche and Tropical Ceviche
Great appetizers (served cold).
Hawaiian Burger
One beef patty, grilled ham, grilled pineapple, chipotle barbeque sauce, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion.
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Shrimp sautéed in butter and garlic, lightly breaded served with rice, beans, and Ensalada.

Loop Combinations
Combo Two
Served with refried beans and rice.
Combo Three
Served with refried beans and rice.
Combo One
Served with refried beans and rice.
Enchilada Trio
One seafood enchilada with white sauce, one cheese enchilada with red sauce, and one shredded beef enchilada with green sauce.
Two Chicken Chile Rellenos
Two mild green chiles, stuffed with grilled chicken breasts and cheese deep fried and smothered in ranchero sauce.
Huevos Rancheros
A corn tortilla topped with refried beans two eggs any way you like smothered in a green ranchero sauce, and topped with cheese.
Flautas
Two flour tortillas filled with your choice of chicken, shredded beef, or garlic beef deep fried and served with rice, beans, guacamole, and sour cream.

Veggie Options
Spinach Enchiladas
Two corn tortillas filled with spinach and cheese smothered in white wine sauce served with rice and refried beans.
Guacamole Enchiladas
Two corn tortillas filled with guacamole, jack, and cheddar cheese, smothered with green sauce served with rice and black beans.
Veggie Burrito
A large flour tortilla stuffed with black beans, sautéed onions, bell peppers mushrooms, zucchini, and cheese smothered with a mild green sauce and served with rice.
Street Enchiladas
Two enchiladas filled with queso fresco, topped with sautéed potatoes, and carrots and smothered in a creamy red sauce served with rice and refried beans a favorite in Jalisco.

Just For Kids
Chicken Fingers with Fries or Tater Tots
Taco, Enchilada, Tostada, Burrito, Quesadilla or Taquito
Served with rice and beans.
Cheeseburger with Fries or Tater Tots

Shrimp
Shrimp De Crème
Shrimp sautéed with green and red peppers, cherry tomatoes, spinach, cream, and parmesan cheese served with rice and beans. A delicious flavor.
Shrimp Cocktail
Lots of shrimp mixed with cilantro, avocado, and cucumbers and marinated in clamato juice a summertime treat.
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Shrimp sautéed in butter and garlic lightly breaded served with rice and beans.
Shrimp Tacos
Two corn tortillas filled with grilled gulf shrimp, cabbage, cheese, and salsa served with rice.

Fish
Pacific Salmon
6 ounces grilled salmon seasoned with a fabulous rub and lemon butter placed on mushrooms, spinach, and cherry tomatoes served with rice a recipe this year.
Mahi Mahi Fish Tacos
Two corn tortillas filled with blackened mahi-mahi, cheese, cabbage, and salsa served with rice.
Mahi Mahi
Grilled mahi-mahi with a spinach cream sauce made with lime juice, spinach, and heavy cream served with rice and beans.

Baja Burritos
Burrito
A large flour tortilla stuffed with refried beans, cheese, and your choice of meat (chicken, shredded beef, or garlic beef) smothered in red sauce and served with rice.
Burrito From Hell
A large flour tortilla filled with a choice of chicken, shredded beef, or garlic beef, spicy salsa, and cheese smothered in a green ranchero sauce served with borracho beans and tempura veggies.
The Loop Especial
Chicken or beef, guacamole, and sour cream smothered in green sauce.
Breakfast Burrito
Eggs, potatoes, cheese, and your choice of bacon, ham, chorizo, or plain smothered in green or red sauce.
Macho Combo Burrito
Fajita-style burrito filled with steak, chicken breast, and cheese smothered in a green sauce and served on a sizzling platter served with borracho beans and tempura veggies.
Burrito Panini
A type of burrito made with sirloin steak, chicken (dark) whole pinto beans, pico de gallo, and cheese brushed with garlic butter and grilled lightly served with rice, guacamole, and sour cream.
California Burrito
A large flour tortilla filled with sirloin steak potatoes, sour cream, pico de gallo, and sliced avocado served with tempura veggies and two dipping sauces.
Chimichanga Beef
Chimichanga Chicken
Bean and Cheese Chimichanga
Bean and Cheese Burrito
Fajita Wrap
Choice of beef, chicken, or shrimp (no combinations) your choice of fresh lettuce, corn, or flour tortillas served with pico de gallo, sour cream guacamole, cheese, and rice.
Cancun Chimi
Seafood-filled burrito deep-fried.
Chili Colorado Burrito
Served with rice and beans.

Loop Burgers
Loop Burger
Bacon Cheeseburger
Loop Cheeseburger
Hawaiian Burger
One burger patty, grilled ham, grilled pineapple, chipotle barbeque sauce, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion.
Burger Fundido
One burger patty, small bits of bacon, chorizo, jalapenos, and queso combined melted together, and placed on top fantastico.
Pikes Peak Burger
One large patty topped with bacon, cheese, avocado, tomato, onion, lettuce, and honey-glazed ham served with potato wedges.

Desserts
Sopapillas
Three served with honey.
Flan
Creamy custard.
Churros Cream Filled
Sopaipilla Sundae
Carmel, chocolate, strawberry.

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Recent Reviews

We had a fun time at the Loop. The food and drinks were very good and our server was attentive and nice. I wish she had told us her name, the service was that good that I would have liked to give a shout out to her.
We went back again just after Christmas. Our server/bartender, Kat was fantastic as was the food! I go back every time I'm in the Springs now.
January 2026
Our server was super friendly, all smiles and very accommodating. We had the shrimp sampler and the carne asada. The coconut shrimp was way overcooked, but the tempura was really good. The carne asada was very good, it could have used a squeeze of lime, which didn’t come on the plate. What we truly appreciated was the fact that there was not excessive salt on anything. My biggest concern was not the food, but facilities, which shouldn’t be taken lightly. The men’s...
January 2026
Very good fries and tatortots. I had a burger and it wasn’t very good. I ordered a plain hamburger and it tasted like vegan steak. Could improve on that but other than that very good.
December 2025

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The Loop

965 Manitou Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829
(719) 685-9344