Summer’s winding down, and with it the height of salad season. During these shoulder weeks as the weather cools in much of the country but autumn harvest isn’t in full swing, there haven’t been a ton of new salads, but there are some notable ones.
Honeygrow, a fast-casual noodle specialist, has expanded its offerings with three new permanent salads, and Veggie Grill by Next Level has added an Avocado Bacon Cobb to its permanent lineup — obviously without pork bacon, since it’s a vegan chain. Instead it uses a version made of tempeh.
Perkins, Fogo de Chão, and Paris Baguette are anticipating the fall with their new salads — Perkins’ is made with kale, apple, and walnuts, Paris Baguette’s has apple, pecans, cranberries, chicken, and goat cheese, and Fogo’s has apples and butternut squash.
Chicken salad is obviously squarely in the wheelhouse of Chicken Salad Chick, which has a new one with Greek influence, and TooJay’s Deli has a new salad with chicken and vegetables in a Dijon mustard sauce.
Mendocino Farms has three very different salads: One is made with hummus and pita chips, a second one is made with noodles, and the third is a potato salad (like the one at TooJay’s, this one has mustard, too).
Austin, Texas-based Detroit-style pizza chain Via 313 also has a new salad, not inspired by its hometown nor the city that its pizza (and founders) come from, but instead by the Italian island of Capri.
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