Cobblog - All Cobb, All the Time

This is a blog about my favorite and the most perfect meal ever: the Cobb Salad.

Named for Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby in LA, most varieties have these ingredients in common:
Some type of crisp lettuce or mixture, boiled egg, bacon, chicken breast, avocado, tomato, chives, and bleu cheese.

This blog explores the endless possibilities of the Cobb Salad, highlights jobs well done as well as failed attempts.

Enjoy!


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Chop’t - 17th at Broadway NYC

It’s a salad but it has more calories than a whopper with cheese.  Weighing in at  800-900 kcal, we have in this corner the Chop’t Cobb Salad.  It’s not a complaint, just an objective observation.  I don’t start to re-think it until it approaches 1500 or so.

Chop’t is in the salad business, as well they should be since they delivered a truly scrumptious two-pounder chopped and tossed. (For you history buffs, this was one of the original choices of how it could be served at the Brown Derby)  Everything was right with the world there except that I had to wait 5 minutes for a seat holding a salad, can of diet coke, cup of ice, napkins, fork, my skates and helmet. (this was my apres-patiner meal and it’s near Paragon Sports)

Since this was a “create your own” type deal, I decided to go for the Tzatziki-Yogurt dressing this time. It was remarkable (as evidenced by the blog entry). When the salad is chopped and tossed, one really enjoys ten layers of flavor in each bite. Of course the bacon was a bit tough as happens in this environment, but everything else was right on. They even used a mixture of romain and iceberg lettuces which the best for a Cobb in my opinion. Definitely recommended and if it weren’t so far from work, I’d probably eat here 3x per week.

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