March 28, 2024

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Inman Park Bar and Lounge Lloyd’s on DeKalb Avenue Gets to be a Pizza Parlor, Serving Pizza and Pitchers of Beer

With a menu once explained as an “unholy combine of Chili’s and Southern comfort and ease food stuff,” DeKalb Avenue throwback lounge Lloyd’s officially shifts gears to pizza paired with pitchers of Significant Life.

Element of the Victory Brands restaurant group (Victory Sandwich Bar, S.O.S Tiki Bar, Minimal Problems), Lloyd’s pizza parlor pivot wasn’t in the initial approach. Throughout a three-thirty day period shutdown final spring owing to the pandemic, operator Ian Jones states the need to have to transition the menu at Lloyd’s from meat loaf and fried rooster to pizza and beer became crystal apparent.

“We’d struggled with our kitchen area considering the fact that we opened [in 2018] and it was hardly ever fairly shaping up into what we had to begin with envisioned,” Jones states. “When we experienced to shut down, we debated just putting pizza ovens in our Victory kitchens to do shipping and delivery. Once every little thing re-opened, we recognized that Lloyds would be a best match for pizza. Hell, it now appears to be like like an 80’s pizza parlor!”

Jones suggests he and his workforce scrapped half the kitchen area at Lloyd’s and set up Swedish deck ovens. Immediately after the speedy kitchen area transform, Jones then consulted with a pizza chef who aided produce the dough plan for Lloyd’s New York-design and style pies. Employing a non-bromated bread flour, dough is hand-balled and stretched and cold-fermented for 3 days.

The new menu at Lloyd’s characteristics six pizzas, ranging from simple cheese and pepperoni to a pie topped with white sauce, mozzarella, provolone, and goat cheese and a vegetarian choice topped with onions, peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, and artichokes. The restaurant also features a “slice of the day”.

Most of the appetizers from the former menu remain intact, which include the spinach and artichoke dip and shrimp cocktail, alongside with a handful of new additions like pesto pillows made from working day-outdated pizza dough stuffed with arugula and pesto and the poutine-esque pizza fries topped with cheese, pepperoni, and white and red sauces. Lloyd’s could also function a salad bar in the upcoming, when the pandemic finishes. Jones is now operating to get the restaurant established up on 3rd-party supply solutions.

As for Lloyd’s well known vesper and martini content hour, that’s not likely anyplace. “Martinis and pizza is a hilarious blend. How could we get rid of that? Lloyd’s is 100% a pizza parlor where you can get rad pizza, a pitcher of beer or shaker comprehensive of martinis!”

Open for patio seating and limited indoor seating. Buy on-line for takeout. Delivery forthcoming. Masks required.

900 DeKalb Ave NE, Atlanta. lloydsatl.com.