![]() The Chinese chicken salad may be the best version of this salad you can get: It comes with a sesame dressing that manages to walk the line of being too sweet, almonds, Mandarin orange slices and crunchy chow mein noodles (as well as a healthy portion of … well, you know). Otherwise, it’s the little things that help set it apart: A basic Caesar comes with sourdough croutons, cheese, rotini pasta, a lemon wedge and avocado (and chicken, of course). Because at CCC, the salads have, unsurprisingly, quite a lot of chicken. And you will too, if - and it’s an important if - you really like chicken. It now seems to refer to itself as “Calif Chicken Cafe” (not sure removing “ornia” really moves the needle) and has adopted a cool new cartoon chicken mascot, in a move that resembles the addition of Poochie on “The Simpsons.”īut I enjoy this place. This L.A.-born brand has gone through a bit of an image makeover since I first remember going many years ago. Jeanne Kelley’s cookbook “Vegetarian Salad for Dinner” is a resource for flavor hacks and show-stopping salads-as-meals. Let’s dive in.įood ‘Vegetarian Salad for Dinner’ has your summer cooking covered I’ve eaten way, way too much salad over the past few weeks. At every place I visited, I tried to order at least one basic salad, like a Caesar or Cobb, as well as a couple of specialty salads. There has to be more than one location, but I’m not including megachains like Panera. ![]() (I’ve omitted Lemonade from this piece for that reason - they do a lot of bowls and veggies but not so much green salads.) No grocery stores. I’ve done my best to loosely rank some of Los Angeles’ more popular salad chains.Ī few guidelines: The goal was to highlight quick-service and takeout chains where there is a focus, at least in part, on leafy green salads. ![]() And the salad eaters of the city have a multitude of options to wade through. If you, like me, have trouble running more than one errand per day, you understand the relative importance of the few things that you do get done. ![]()
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