Best Salads in US and IOA?

[LoveToDisney]

Where are the best salads found in US and IOA?

 

[goofie4goofy]

In IOA Mythos has a great selection of salads and in Studios Lombards Landing has a nice selection. The Palm Restaurant in the Hard Rock also has some great salads.

Those are what I can think of off the top of my head.

If you are looking to cut calories and the salad selection looks like it may be packing more calories than a double cheeseburger, just ask for the fattening stuff like cheeses, sour cream etc to be omitted and replaced with more veggies or chicken and ask for your dressing on the side.

 

[LoveToDisney]

In IOA Mythos has a great selection of salads and in Studios Lombards Landing has a nice selection. The Palm Restaurant in the Hard Rock also has some great salads.
Those are what I can think of off the top of my head.
If you are looking to cut calories and the salad selection looks like it may be packing more calories than a double cheeseburger, just ask for the fattening stuff like cheeses, sour cream etc to be omitted and replaced with more veggies or chicken and ask for your dressing on the side.

Thanks for the info and yes I wanted to watch my calories along with getting more veggies in me while away from home.

 

[PlutoLuvr]

Confisco's at IOA has a Greek flatbread salad that's really yummy. They put a piece of flatbread on your plate, then cover it with a ceasar salad filled with kalamata olives and fried pepperocinis, then they top with an oak-grilled chicken breast...one of my favorite salads.

At Studios, there's an Irish salad over at Finnegan's. It changes a little every time we go, but it's MASSIVE! Sometimes it's like a cobb; I've also had it just like a regular salad with greens, veggies and big mushrooms...the prize in this salad are the Scotch eggs right on top. The dressing always seems to be the same, a nice honey mustard which compliments the eggs exquisitely...another fav for me

I've also been known to just get a side order of Scotch eggs and a side salad with the honey mustard dressing and put the two together on a hot day. It's not quite as large as the regular salad, and you get more Scotch eggs doing this.

There's good salads at Hard Rock Cafe, as well. They're very big! I know I've tried the cobb there and I think another involving buffalo chicken tenders and blue cheese dressing, but the two I mentioned above at Confisco's and Finnegan's are spectacular and very memorable.

ETA: Like the previous poster mentioned, most often, these salads are not low-cal/low-fat. DH and I have lost about 100 pounds in the last nine months, and something we watch very closely are salads. The dressings, cheese and bacon will destroy a low-fat/low-cal diet. Of course, we treat ourselves on vacation. Plus, keep in mind all the walking you're doing

 

[Fan2CSkr]

I love a good salad and have had my share at Universal. Confisco's makes a Thai salad thats delicious. It has pineapple and a peanut dressing. Mythos has a few salads that are very good. Last time I had Chinese chicken salad. Their spinach salad is also very good. Mama Della's house dinner salad is one of the best salads I have ever had. Hard Rock cafe has a nice selection of salads as entrees.

 

[goofie4goofy]

Mama Della's house dinner salad is one of the best salads I have ever had.

That salad is exact to my salad...including the wooden bowl, which does give it that very unique flavor due to the wood being seasoned from all that salad.

I make mine with assorted greens - arugula, redicchio, green leaf, red leaf, romaine...an assortment of at least 3 or more. Wash and spin the lettuce (or completely dry)and gently tear into bite sized pieces. Sometimes if I have fresh basil on hand I will put in a few torn basil leaves as well. I add thin sliced hot house cucumber, carrot strips made with veggie peeler, sometimes paper thin slices of a halved red onion. Sometimes a tomato which I cut into strips. The tricky part is in the dressing: Toss all your greens and veggies in a bowl till well mixed. I don't measure, it's by eye....

First Red wine vinegar...put your finger over the bottle so it sprinkles out and coat the lettuce in vinegar. Then I sprinkle some grey salt or Kosher salt, fresh pepper, a sprinkle of garlic powder and then some freshly grated locatelli cheese., if I don't have fresh basil in the salad, I will sprinkle some dried on at this time. Then top it off with extra virgin olive oil. Then toss well. Do not make the dressing in a bottle and pour on, it is made directly on the salad. My family has been making salad this way for generations and it always tastes the same.

You can add anything you wish to the salad: pittted olives, orange peppers, roasted peppers....whatever.

A great salad dressing without any oil: Balsamic vinegar, 1 clove minced fresh garlic, salt pepper and dijon mustard. You will not believe how good this dressing is. If you don't like balsamic you can do half balsamic half red wine vinegar. If you need to mellow it out a teaspoon of honey, and a small drizzle of olive oil.


Sorry to get OT but I thought you would like to make this for yourself

 

[LoveToDisney]

That salad is exact to my salad...including the wooden bowl, which does give it that very unique flavor due to the wood being seasoned from all that salad.

I make mine with assorted greens - arugula, redicchio, green leaf, red leaf, romaine...an assortment of at least 3 or more. Wash and spin the lettuce (or completely dry)and gently tear into bite sized pieces. Sometimes if I have fresh basil on hand I will put in a few torn basil leaves as well. I add thin sliced hot house cucumber, carrot strips made with veggie peeler, sometimes paper thin slices of a halved red onion. Sometimes a tomato which I cut into strips. The tricky part is in the dressing: Toss all your greens and veggies in a bowl till well mixed. I don't measure, it's by eye....

First Red wine vinegar...put your finger over the bottle so it sprinkles out and coat the lettuce in vinegar. Then I sprinkle some grey salt or Kosher salt, fresh pepper, a sprinkle of garlic powder and then some freshly grated locatelli cheese., if I don't have fresh basil in the salad, I will sprinkle some dried on at this time. Then top it off with extra virgin olive oil. Then toss well. Do not make the dressing in a bottle and pour on, it is made directly on the salad. My family has been making salad this way for generations and it always tastes the same.

You can add anything you wish to the salad: pittted olives, orange peppers, roasted peppers....whatever.

A great salad dressing without any oil: Balsamic vinegar, 1 clove minced fresh garlic, salt pepper and dijon mustard. You will not believe how good this dressing is. If you don't like balsamic you can do half balsamic half red wine vinegar. If you need to mellow it out a teaspoon of honey, and a small drizzle of olive oil.

Sorry to get OT but I thought you would like to make this for yourself

Yummmmmmmm!!!!!!

 

[MsDisney]

Sorry to get OT but I thought you would like to make this for yourself

WOW...now THAT is a salad! The dressings sound great too!

I think I'll have to go to Mama Della's to try it since NY is too far from here (plus there are all those pesky Yankee fans there ) and I would have to spend a week in the supermarket trying to figure out what and where some of the ingredients ARE! I've only really branched out in the produce dept. as an adult tho, so clearly I have a LONG way to go! LOL


Thanks for taking the time to share!

Karen / MsDis

 

[Fan2CSkr]

That salad is exact to my salad...including the wooden bowl, which does give it that very unique flavor due to the wood being seasoned from all that salad.

I make mine with assorted greens - arugula, redicchio, green leaf, red leaf, romaine...an assortment of at least 3 or more. Wash and spin the lettuce (or completely dry)and gently tear into bite sized pieces. Sometimes if I have fresh basil on hand I will put in a few torn basil leaves as well. I add thin sliced hot house cucumber, carrot strips made with veggie peeler, sometimes paper thin slices of a halved red onion. Sometimes a tomato which I cut into strips. The tricky part is in the dressing: Toss all your greens and veggies in a bowl till well mixed. I don't measure, it's by eye....

First Red wine vinegar...put your finger over the bottle so it sprinkles out and coat the lettuce in vinegar. Then I sprinkle some grey salt or Kosher salt, fresh pepper, a sprinkle of garlic powder and then some freshly grated locatelli cheese., if I don't have fresh basil in the salad, I will sprinkle some dried on at this time. Then top it off with extra virgin olive oil. Then toss well. Do not make the dressing in a bottle and pour on, it is made directly on the salad. My family has been making salad this way for generations and it always tastes the same.

You can add anything you wish to the salad: pittted olives, orange peppers, roasted peppers....whatever.

A great salad dressing without any oil: Balsamic vinegar, 1 clove minced fresh garlic, salt pepper and dijon mustard. You will not believe how good this dressing is. If you don't like balsamic you can do half balsamic half red wine vinegar. If you need to mellow it out a teaspoon of honey, and a small drizzle of olive oil.


Sorry to get OT but I thought you would like to make this for yourself

Sounds delicious, I have to give this a try. Thanks!