desserts have been off-menu.
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you don’t see that every day
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Any FTC’ers going tonight?
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Oh boy. Every time I see a new post re Lynx I’m like “what is it this time”. Glad to see good news for once.
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Does anyone know their corkage policy?
Went last night, had the Lucifer. The pizza was 
probably my favorite pizzas in the city right now. It was decently busy too, hope it stays that way!
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got @doublestuffedpierogi’fluenced, thanks for the report back.
tried a couple new pies, the sweet cheesus and lucifer. the sweet cheesus is definitely not for everyone, especially for the lactose challenged. there was a lot of cheese, the blue wasn’t too overpowering thanks to the honey, the double cream was cold for a nice temp contrast. i did have to take alternating bites of the center and cornicione just so i wasn’t overwhelmed with cheese. the lucifer was good and came with large slices of tomato and no honey, but i do prefer the satan.
they seemed to have fixed any issues they were having, the pacing was quicker than ever. i might even ask them to slow it down next time.
review forthcoming @butteredwaffles @TriTip?
lucifer - california tomato, salumficio guanciale, buffalo mozzarella dop, casolare scarmoza fumicata, salvatore smoked cheese, oregon sea salt, hot chili, olive oil & basil
filleti - caseificio il casolare buffalo mozzarella dop, fermented red chili, firebird tomatoes, buttery olive oil, oregon sea salt, basil
napoletana - volcanic tomato, garlic, embered anchovy, gaeta olives, capers, almalfi coast oregano, basil, sonoma olive oil, oregon sea salt
mushroom - bellwether basket ricotta, mascarpone, buffalo mozzarella dop, grilled & shaved mushrooms, garlic, vache rosso parmigiano reggiano 30 month dop, pecorino romana, matru & thyme
sweet cheesus - five cheese, double cream, brillat-savarin, shropshire blue, stracciatella, habanero-truffle honey, oregon sea salt, sarawak white pepper
soft serve, yuzu honey, raspberry
a bit too melty, i prefer the honeycomb.
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The Sweet Cheesus is my favorite of any of the pizzas I’ve had from Lynx and Leopardo. Give me one of those and a Dr Pepper, a vanilla milkshake, whatever.
sweet cheesus and a pot of coffee
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Ugh - I can’t go because I promised Peony and ChatGPT I’m going to get visible abs. (for Lynx sidetracks and meta)
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Look forward to seeing you on the Home Cooking thread!
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Lucifer was VG but we also prefer the Satan Version. Missed the BeeSting meat+hot honey vibe.
Napoletana, Fileti and Mushroom were pretty close to perfect.
The Sweet Cheesus was brilliant but a little overwhelming. A 1/2 slice would have been a great finish to the meal.
Service was smooth and efficient. Pleased to see them hit their stride.
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i don’t know if it was the world cup or what but lynx was poppin at 8pm last night. every seat was full and pizzas and cocktails were flowing. happy to see it.
a bang bang with baroo x catbird seat was perfect.
review forthcoming @Clayfu @562 @yolla?
filleti - caseificio il casolare buffalo mozzarella dop, fermented red chili, firebird tomatoes, buttery olive oil, oregon sea salt, basil
mushroom - bellwether basket ricotta, mascarpone, buffalo mozzarella dop, grilled & shaved mushrooms, garlic, vache rosso parmigiano reggiano 30 month dop, pecorino romana, matru & thyme
lucifer - california tomato, salumficio guanciale, buffalo mozzarella dop, casolare scarmoza fumicata, salvatore smoked cheese, oregon sea salt, hot chili, olive oil & basil
napoletana - volcanic tomato, garlic, embered anchovy, gaeta olives, capers, almalfi coast oregano, basil, sonoma olive oil, oregon sea salt
honey soft serve
soft serve, yuzu honey, peach
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i would highly anti-recommend the napoletana, the olives, capers, sea salt and anchovies made this almost inedibly salty. it was not this salty on previous visits.
everything else was just as good. highlights were filleti, mushroom and honey soft serve.
forthcoming review @boourns @bluebarb?
filleti - caseificio il casolare buffalo mozzarella dop, fermented red chili, firebird tomatoes, buttery olive oil, oregon sea salt, basil
napoletana - volcanic tomato, garlic, embered anchovy, gaeta olives, capers, almalfi coast oregano, basil, sonoma olive oil, oregon sea salt
sweet cheesus - five cheese, double cream, brillat-savarin, shropshire blue, stracciatella, habanero-truffle honey, oregon sea salt, sarawak white pepper
mushroom - bellwether basket ricotta, mascarpone, buffalo mozzarella dop, grilled & shaved mushrooms, garlic, vache rosso parmigiano reggiano 30 month dop, pecorino romana, matru & thyme
lucifer - california tomato, salumficio guanciale, buffalo mozzarella dop, casolare scarmoza fumicata, salvatore smoked cheese, oregon sea salt, hot chili, olive oil & basil
honey soft serve
soft serve, yuzu honey, peach
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I quite like this new version of the Cheesus, I was afraid the blue cheese would be too intense, but I found it worked well with the rest of the pizza. Lucifer might have been my favorite pie of the night though, I like the big slice of heirloom tomato and the guanciale. Although the center was the soggiest of the pizzas on this pie with droop that was harder to manage. If ordering multiple pizzas I would do in order of flavor intensity and start with the mushroom, filleti, Lucifer, and end with the Cheesus.
Agree napoletana was too salty. Skip until they fine tune it more, unless you’re a salt fiend.
Dough has evolved since my first visit earlier, it’s very light and airy.
Cocktails are S-tier in LA IMO. As good or better than Leopardo.
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I don’t even like cocktails and the cocktails there are awesome.
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How do they compare to Kato? I also loved the cocktail selection at Leopardo.
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Both are highly technical cocktail programs. I think Kato leans harder into seasonality, although Lynx hasn’t been open that long their cocktails feel more timeless. Both riff on classic cocktail styles and take them in different directions, I think Lynx is more unconventional. It feels like they both have unique points of view that you can’t reproduce at another bar.
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Second time at lynx, seems like they have gotten the timing issues figured out they coursed the pizzas and we had a very leisurely dinner that was a hair under two hours. Mixed drinks are as good or possibly better than Kato, def top two beverage program in the city. I know some of us have given skenes a hard time (and deservedly so imo) but when he’s hitting on all cylinders it’s definitely a sight to see and must try. Hopefully the consistency stays high, if that happens this and sei are head and shoulders above any pizza in the city.
pizza rankings: 1. Mushroom, 2. Diavola, 3.a/b meat lovers and fillete, and 4. Cheesus
Drink rankings:1. Dreamsicle mezcal Paloma, 2. Amaro kola, 3 re margherita, 4 pistachio, 5 rhubarb Negroni 6 banana stand 7 filthy martini
Both drinks and pizza were all levels of good to excellent and none would be even close to considered a miss. All were highly inventive and flavorful. Even the cheesus which was my least favorite was highly interesting an excellent mix of at least 8/9 cheeses that meshed well together incorporated with a mild sweet heat reminiscent of an end of meal cheese course, just on the too heavy side for me. Their dough is some of the best in the city so crisp and light but tons of structure and great chew on the cornicione
Soft serve I loved less than my companions. Solid but not great. Honeycomb was standard, the raspberry with yuzu? was very good but the yuzu melted the soft serve, the pro move was to spoon the honey comb soft serve and dip it into the more melted soft serve.
I’ll let porky post the pics
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Agree with everything you said. I went last night with friends and we devoured everything put before us. Mushroom was our favorite and they gave us a free Cheesus at the end. The server/somm told us that the Cheesus was their interpretation of a cheese plate - not too intense but since there were 4 of us it was perfect.
We only did one round of drinks and I got the Amaro Kola based on previous recommendations here and loved it; totally agree with the comparisons with Kato. We brought champagne instead for the remainder of the meal; corkage is $50/bottle with 2 bottle limit but they were kind and let us open a 3rd bottle with no fee.
I almost want to go by myself next time and solo a mushroom pizza and have at least 3 cocktails.
Edit: Glassware is restaurant standard, so would recommend bringing your own.
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