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Restaurant: Mixt Greens (San Francisco)
Food description: Romaine hearts with treviso, anchovies, shaved parmesan, meyer lemon, garlic croutons, ceasar dressing, topped with grilled chicken
Food rating: 6 out of 10
Times ordered: 1

Raise your hand if you've ever overdosed on garlic! Me, me, me! On this salad, if you haven't guessed by now! I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to ever consume this much garlic--my god, did they think I was a vampire or something? I pity those who had to sit in meetings with me after I ate this salad. I would not order it again on this fact alone; however, Mixt Green's other salads got some serious potential. Plus, aside from the garlic factor, mostly everything else was great. The lettuce was fresh and crisp, the parmesan was deliciously sharp and plentiful, and the grilled chicken was juicy and well-marinated. One thing about the toppings though, I've got this pet peeve about doing extra work before I can eat stuff, which I bitched about before, remember? Try cutting up slabs of chicken and anchovies that are sitting on top of a bowl of lettuce without demolishing everything. For this reason, I prefer the toppings to be cut up beforehand for my eating pleasure. But enough on that. From the very first bite, I noticed the garlic immediately, but it was very tasty and I was very hungry, so I just shrugged and thought "I can handle this." Well I sure enjoyed it while it lasted, but man, that stuff came back to haunt me for the rest of the entire day. The dressing was mostly the culprit, but the addition of garlic croutons didn't help the situation. I'd say one or the other would have been sufficient, definitely not both. Like I said before though, based on how good the salad was (all garlic aside), I'm psyched about trying some of their other stuff--maybe a little ahi tuna action or how about the filet mignon cheese steak, yeah? Uh huh.