The beauty of a salad is that it’s tasty and intriguing when you prepare it to your liking with the food or ingredients available in your refrigerator and make it into a fulfilling and lasting meal: an array of ingredients that can be installed in a salad. The colorful ingredients of vegetables and fruits make it into a beautiful palette of fall.
I have become accustomed to eating salads since living in a homeless shelter in which salads were served regularly for dinner. However, since moving, I have been able to make a variety of salads after reading articles saying salads help you “digest and process” foods. The articles were interesting and profound, so I took their suggestions to practice.
The astonishing look of the greenery in a salad, along with the red, orange and yellow ingredients, is enlightening and refreshing to view during this season. However, when you can’t make your own salad, you will be able to make a restaurant salad by using your imagination to create an array of choices.
Based in New York City, Chop’t Creative Salad Company has locations across DC. I have seen the lines at the Chop’t on 7th St N.W. extend as far as outside. The manager of that store said, “customers love the salads.” The restaurant serves salads in a clear, plastic bowl that enables you to view colorful ingredients of your choice, such as beets, carrots, red peppers and avocado. You also have a choice of lettuce, spinach, kale and other greens. The restaurant enables you to craft your salads, and there are many ways to do so. Ingredients that enlighten your spirits and fill your desires and are nutritional, too, are black beans, chickpeas, broccoli, fruits, grains and cheese. Its popularity speaks for itself when the line extends out the door.
Inside the restaurant, you will see an assembly line of workers ready to fill your bowl with an assortment of ingredients. In addition to the creative salads, there are classic salads and sandwiches to choose from, such as Mexican Caesar, Palm Beach and Harvest Cobb. There are homemade dressings for the enticing salads. The recommended choices are Smoky Bacon Russian and Steakhouse Blue Cheese.
The restaurant’s organic, decaffeinated fountain drinks come in such flavors as Mandarin Orange and Birch Beer. Regular canned sodas are also served.
When you want a satisfying salad that will meet your dietary needs, Chop’t Creative Salad Company is the restaurant for you.
