SALAD

Eat your greens! Sarafina's in the French Quarter features a Gallatine Alley Salad, a spring greens mix tossed with hard-boiled egg, pepperoncinis, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, red onions and provolone cheese with a choice of dressing. At the Apple Seed Shoppe, a natural foods restaurant in the CBD, the Diet Rite Salad is a healthy mix of lettuce, spinach, celery, red cabbage, tuna, bell peppers, broccoli and cauliflower with an oil and vinegar dressing. At Bravo!, the namesake chopped salad combines greens with cucumbers, red onion, tomatoes, olive, feta cheese and Italian dressing. Crabby Jack's lets diners build their own salads with a variety of crisp greens and more than forty accompaniments. Out in Metairie, stop at Caffe! Caffe! for the grilled chicken and avocado salad, which also includes gorgonzola cheese, walnuts, orange slices and red onions with romaine lettuce and a housemade mango vinaigrette. On the Northshore, Hugh's Wine Cellar offers its famous chicken salad plate; tender white meat chicken with celery, green onion, almonds and black olives on a bed of romaine lettuce. Additions include hearts of palm, avocado, tomatoes, artichoke hearts and alfalfa sprouts served along with feta dressing. Back in the French Quarter, La Boucherie Coffee House and Café has a traditional cobb salad filled with chicken, blue cheese, bacon, avocado, hard-boiled egg, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes. Obee's Soup-Salad-Subs offers downtown workers an array of salad choices, including the antipasto salad, a garden salad topped with salami, ham, and provolone. Whether in Metairie or on lower Magazine Street, Puccino's offers fresh garden salads for lunch, including the Chicken Pecan Bleu served atop romaine lettuce sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and dressed in the house vinaigrette. At Vianne's Tea Salon and Café in Mandeville, try the paneed chicken served over organic greens with tomatoes, cucumbers, mandarin oranges and peanuts. Lemon Grass Café puts a local twist on a traditional Caesar by topping it off with cornmeal-crusted fried oysters. At Chops Bistro, the house salad features cane sugar bacon and apples tossed in a citrus vinaigrette and the iceberg wedge is dressed with blue cheese and cherry tomatoes. Outside the Warehouse District, Fire! A Restaurant gets fancy with a crab, strawberry and orange salad on a bed of frisee and spinach tossed in a guava vinaigrette and topped with crumbled goat cheese. Strawberries and goat cheese are paired again at Red Fish Grill and are accompanied by baby mixed greens and spiced pecans. At Legend's Patio Bar & Grille, grilled or fried chicken is served on a bed of lettuce. Koz's in Harahan is noted for its sizable chef's salad, piled high with ham, roast beef, turkey and cheddar cheese on mixed greens.

Welty's Deli creates the signature Welty's Chicken Curry Salad of chicken mixed with celery, mayo, green onions, Granny Smith apples, walnuts, curry and golden raisins over mixed greens and tomato wedges. Planc Coffee & Tea puts a down-home touch to its chicken salad. The Garden District Salad at Still Perkin' combines Romaine lettuce, baby leaf spinach, dried raspberries, feta cheese, sweet red onions and a toasted pecan vinaigrette. Blueberries, almonds, Parmesan cheese, tomato, cucumber, avocado, a honey-vinaigrette and a choice of chicken or seared salmon are the ingredients for the Spring Salad at Tout de Suite Café in Algiers. Messina's Italian Salad at Jazz Seafood and Steakhouse follows the same recipe used for more than 30 years: Romaine lettuce, balsamic vinaigrette, mozzarella and olive salad. Head to any CC's for the summer fruit salad. St. John's Coffee House offers a roasted chicken salad. The Southwestern chicken salad from Chateau Coffee Café features grilled chicken, corn, salsa, black beans, cheddar jack cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, tortilla chips and a Southwestern-style ranch dressing. The Thai Salad at Café Royale adds a zesty ginger sesame dressing and spicy peanut sauce to romaine lettuce, tomatoes and grilled chicken.