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Restaurant: Patxi's (San Francisco)
Food description: Tender baby spinach with bacon, tomatoes, red onions, and croutons, with tomato-basil vinaigrette
Food rating: 5 out of 10
Times ordered: 1

I was just getting over being sick, so in a rare moment of health, decided that a non-caesar salad would make a good accompaniment to the Crisco-laden deep dish pizza I was about to have. Normally I'd say screw the salad, so I wasn't very familiar with their salad offerings and just picked one that sounded good. The salad achieved exactly was intended for--a vitamin supplement--but nothing more. Based on the picture, it looks like it should've been pretty good, but if you look closely, you'll notice that all the toppings are only on the top (thus the name toppings, yeah yeah). But underneath that thin layer of toppings was a good 3 inches of 100% pure spinach--no dressing, no croutons, not even a single bacon bit! I can't help but ask, why the laziness? It'd be next to impossible to try to toss the salad on the plate, so I didn't bother. I just dealt with the fact that the beginning of the salad was drenched in everything, and the rest of it tasted like a tree. And since the salad was gigantic, the ratio ended up being more tree than toppings. As for the toppings, the croutons were bland, the dressing was too sweet, tomatoes were decent, and the bacon bits tasted fake like Bac-Os. Because of this salad, I'm making a conscious effort to get sick less frequently--that way, I never have to eat it again.