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Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
Prepared-to-order dishes for $12 extra include a choice of avocado toast, a lox plate, and four versions of eggs Benedicts.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Options range from classics like lox spread to the highly unconventional bubble gum-pink strawberry chocolate chip cream cheese, which might entice picky little ones.
—Devra Ferst, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2025
The namesake lox is made in-house, too.
—Katie Chang, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Breakfast items include made-to-order omelets served with roasted potatoes, bacon-egg-and-cheese on a bagel, and their popular homemade lox and cream cheese with capers and dill.
—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
Prepared-to-order dishes for $12 extra include a choice of avocado toast, a lox plate, and four versions of eggs Benedicts.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Options range from classics like lox spread to the highly unconventional bubble gum-pink strawberry chocolate chip cream cheese, which might entice picky little ones.
—Devra Ferst, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2025
The namesake lox is made in-house, too.
—Katie Chang, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Lox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lox. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationKids Definition
lox
1 of 2 noun
: liquid oxygen
lox
2 of 2 noun
plural lox or loxes
: salmon that has been cured in brine and sometimes smoked
Etymology
Noun
liquid oxygen
Noun
from Yiddish laks "lox," from an old German word lahs "salmon"
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