We knew it would happen. After an unseasonably cool June and July, August is here, and it's hot. It's clearly time to eat a ginormous salad. This is what we're having:

Jo's Cobb is surprisingly delicious. You could douse Grandma Winslow's hand in the tamari dressing at Mother's and I'd nibble on it. Hence, the side salad there is to die for by default.
(Editor's note: While Mother's recovers from a little incident they had, you can still get Cashew Tamari Dressing at Whole Foods, Wheatsville and both Fresh Plus Stores.)
-Joshua Huck

My personal favorite is the Once Upon A Time In Mexico Steak Salad at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. Ingredients: mixed greens, skirt steak, avocado, tortilla strips, red onion (hold that on date outings), jicama, Cojita cheese, and a smokin' hot jalapeño lime dressing. What I like about this is that the Alamo chefs aren't afraid to smoke you out of the room with their dressing and onions. It's delicious and anything but subtle. I probably order it 80 percent of the time I catch a film there.
-Tom Thornton

I think I might have already lauded it in a film post: Alamo Drafthouse Asian Chicken Salad. It's so spicy, I sometimes have coughing fits. I used to love to substitute shrimp for the chicken, but the Drafthouse has seen fit to eliminate that option. Curses!
-Rebecca Onion

The Warm Goat Cheese Salad at South Congress Cafe. Warm medallions of breaded goat cheese on a bed of field greens, tossed in balsamic vinaigrette with shaved prosciutto and toasted pine nuts.
-Veronica Meewes

While I am just as surprised as the next guy, and though I would much rather have someone make my fat ass a salad, and granted, I might have to apologize to those in my gaseous vicinity soon after grazing there - I can't resist the salad bar at Whole Foods Gateway. The tofu is clearly baked with an addictive substance. Then there's the little edamame/corn/red pepper moment, and then you toss it with Bragg's amino acids and olive oil and lemon and more of the tofu, and some broccoli. Greens optional. Donut-induced Homer Simpson noise probable.
-Sam Armstrong

Right now, my favorite salad around town has been the chopped antipasto salad at Mandola's. All the palm hearts, artichoke, and peppers are nice, but their garlic parmigiano dressing is so amazing, I want to get a take-out bag just for the ounce or two left after I finish the salad.
-Thomas Buchanan

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