Summers and salads are a perennial (and perfect) pairing. Around the county, the greens are just the beginning of many delicious dishes.
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Greca’s offers many salads at lunch and dinner to bring some of the best Mediterranean flavors to life. Try the Dakos for its grated fresh tomato, red onions, capers, kalamata olives, red beets, and crumbled epirus feta over cretan barley rusks. Or make the salad the meal at lunch with a Skordalia Bowl of baby kale, pligouri, red beets, skordalia, ladolemono and choice of protein. The proteins provide options to meet a number of dietary needs, including grilled chicken, revithia (chickpea fritters), avocado, pork skewer, gyro carvings, shrimp, and faroe island salmon. 189 Main St White Plains grecamed.com
Purdys Farmer and the Fish
Enjoy your lunch or dinner in a beautiful garden porch and tent setting. Purdy’s Farmer and the Fish offers a number of salads, including its signature Farmer’s Salad with field greens, shaved farm vegetables, candied walnuts, mansanilla olives and feta. Looking for something with a bit of sweetness? Try the Bel Fiore Radichio Salad with roasted peaches and moscatel, pepperoni and faro and pickled onions. 100 Titicus Rd North Salem farmerandthefish.com
Moderne Barn
Arugula, Cobb, Caesar, the Moderne Barn has all the usual salad suspects and more. If you want a salad that has it all, try the Barn Salad with mesclun greens, arugula, black ceci beans, green chickpeas, garbanzo beans, kalamata olives, orange segments, cucumbers, toasted pistachios, hard-boiled eggs, gorgonzola blue cheese and sherry vinaigrette. While some salads vary from the lunch to dinner and brunch menus, you can find the Barn Salad on all three. 430 Bedford Rd #2002 Armonk modernebarn.com
Horsefeathers
At Horsefeathers, the dressings for the salads are half the fun. Choose from house, Russian, fat-free raspberry vinaigrette, peppercorn parmesan, ranch, balsamic vinaigrette, honey mustard and blue cheese to put on nearly a dozen salad options. Let the dressing be the star on a tossed salad, eggless Caesar, or arugula. If you are looking for something to make a full meal, consider the Tuscan tuna in olive oil with tomato, egg, radishes, calamatas, capers, onion, mixed greens, and olive oil herb dressing or the chilled baked salmon with fresh garlic string beans, roasted peppers, gorgonzola and mixed greens. Open for lunch and dinner. 94 N Broadway Tarrytown horsefeathersny.com
Southern Table Kitchen and Bar
Southern cooking right in Pleasantville! A number of these salads give the avocado center stage. Try the Tortilla Salad with baby greens, tortilla, carrots, jicama, corn, toasted almonds, avocado, scallions, peanut glaze, and honey lime vinaigrette or the Chopped Santa Fe Salad with romaine, avocado, tomato, corn, pepper jack, jalapeno, crispy shallots, black beans, scallion, and chipotle vinaigrette. The Grilled Skirt Steak Salad also has avocado with baby greens, tomato, red onion, feta and corn, crispy shallots, and white balsamic vinaigrette to create that Southern flavor. 39 Marble Ave Pleasantville Click here for more info.
Stan’z Cafe
The Stan’z Café takes the farm to table concept one step further and says they are “farm to fork.” Salads are a main part of their lunch menu with options ranging from the Cajun Salad with grilled Cajun chicken, roasted corn, caramelized onions, avocado, salad greens and vinaigrette to the Tuscany with grilled pears, bacon, goat cheese, arugula, olive oil, balsamic and honey Dijon. Fruits make other salads unique, including the Tuscany with grilled pears and the Manor with sliced apples. 26 Chatsworth Ave Larchmont stanzcafelarchmont.com
Posto 22
Posto 22 provides a variety of delectable Italian salads on their lunch and dinner menus. For dinner, enjoy the salads as suggested or add your choice of protein, including chicken, shrimp, salmon and steak. At lunch, it is hard to pass up the Posto 22 Rustica with baby arugula, romaine hearts, crispy prosciutto, shaved pecorino, gorgonzola cheese, fresh pear and red grapes with fresh herb and lemon dressing. 22 Division St New Rochelle posto22.com
A media specialist in the education and not-for-profit sectors, Patrice Athanasidy has written in the Hudson Valley for over 25 years. A Bronx native, she loves exploring all the Hudson Valley has to offer from parks to theaters to historic places. Athanasidy is an adjunct professor of communication at Manhattan College and also an alumna. Now a resident of Westchester County, she is a wife and mom of three grown children and has written columns about living family life on the autistic spectrum.
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