Lettuce with avocado-ranch dressing, tomato-chile tortilla bowl, black beans, jack cheese, jalapenos, sour cream, salsa and diced chicken. $12.95
Harvey’s, San Francisco CA
This is more like a chicken taco salad bowl than a chicken tostada, but I’m not really going to argue with what Harvey’s wants to call it. It was marginal.
Primo sale cheese, tuna, olives, and croutons. €10
AC Hotel Genova, Genoa ITALY
This salad was simple, but tasty enough. The ingredients were pretty good and it was a sizable salad. I ordered the dressing on the side.
Green salad, croutons, parmesan cheese, bacon, and caesar dressing. €13.90
Balthazar, Nice FRANCE
This was the weirdest caesar salad I’ve seen. It had mixed greens, fried chicken strips, and the caesar dressing tasted odd. Suffice it to say that I did NOT like this salad. Ew! That the service was really slow!
And these aperol spritzes were disgusting. I mean, they even came with marshmallows for god’s sake!
Bresaola, mozzarella, pomodori conditi, rucola. €9
Il Galeone, Genoa ITALY
Wow, this was a lot of meat for a “salad”, lol! Ok, I can work with this. It was pretty good though and the arugula really help cut the meatiness of this salad.
Mixed greens, olives, peppers.
Monu Cafe, Genoa ITALY
This was plain and simple, but it tasted good on a hot sunny day. This tiny restaurant overlooking the sea was nice and relaxing to dine at.
Arugula salad, radish, olive oil. $16
La Ciccia, San Francisco CA
This dish was SO simple, but SO delicious! The quality of the fresh stracciata cheese was wonderful, and it just melted in your mouth. Mmm…
€6.80
La Taverna del Born, Barcelona SPAIN
This was a pretty simple salad, but it was refreshing and bright on a warm, sunny day. I like the fruity forward dressing and honey combo, and there was plenty of goat cheese!
With fruits, cheeses, and vinaigrette of forest fruits. Menu of the day €16.50
El Rincon de Pepe, Sitges SPAIN
I’m not sure what “forest fruits” are (lol), but I think it was a strawberry vinaigrette. I liked this salad, it had a little bit of everything between all the fruit and cheeses.
Cucumber, dill-yogurt, pickled pearl onions, toasted sesame seeds. $16
Tosca Cafe, San Francisco CA
This salad was pretty tasty. It’s kinda weird that I liked the buttery croutons the best, and not the tomatoes, hehe. I’m such a crouton fiend! Really though, this salad was great and the dill yogurt was different and yummy.
Baby kale, mesclun, shaved brussels sprouts, walnuts, dried plums, honey-champagne vinaigrette. $14
Belcampo Meat Co., Larkspur CA
I didn’t think I would like this because it looked like rabbit food when it came out, but it was surprisingly delicious. I also didn’t mind that it was only lightly dressed. I thought I would need more dressing to hide all the leafy tastes, lol!
Chopped kale salad with mint, green onions and carrots. Topped with garlic bok choy, roasted bell peppers, pickled cucumber, avocado, peanuts, fresh Thai basil and Thai basil pesto. $10.32
Bamboo Asia, San Francisco CA
This bowl was certainly packed – both with ingredients and with flavor. I’m not sure everything worked smoothly together, but it sure was an adventure to eat!
Avocado, roasted golden beets, roasted brussels sprouts, egg, and caramelized onions on mixt greens with Point Reyes blue cheese dressing. $10.40
Mixt Greens, San Francisco CA
My work location is the land of the $10+ lunch salad. I was actually surprised that I enjoyed this one though. I liked the variety of toppings they had available, and they were really good quality. The price really starts to jack up when you add meats though.
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