: a tossed salad made typically with chopped chicken or turkey, tomatoes, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, blue cheese, and lettuce and dressed with a vinaigrette
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Fuel up before a hike or paddle with wholegrain pancakes or a spinach and mushroom frittata, or stop by for a late lunch of a big Cobb salad or a quesadilla with artichoke hearts.
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Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 1 July 2025
For example, one lunch menu offered the choices of salmon and spinach lasagna, Cobb salad and a BLT sandwich, with soup or salad as the starter.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
There are $46 McCarthy salads, which are really just Cobb salads named after a polo-playing millionaire.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
Credit for the Cobb salad generally goes to Bob Cobb, owner of the now-defunct Brown Derby chain in Los Angeles.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Bring a book, order some rosé and a Cobb salad, and spend an entire day reading in the overwater hammocks, or paddle boarding, snorkeling, and kayaking around the blue water.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
Bortz said the group ate Cobb salad at a long, conference room-like table with Trump at one end, with Vance seated at the table too.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
Asparagus and sugar snap peas give a seasonal spin to the traditional Cobb salad.
—Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
And at the city’s Milk & Honey, a Cobb salad with lobster rings in at a whopping $54 (adding shrimp or crab instead would leave you with just a $32 bill).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
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Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 1 July 2025
For example, one lunch menu offered the choices of salmon and spinach lasagna, Cobb salad and a BLT sandwich, with soup or salad as the starter.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
There are $46 McCarthy salads, which are really just Cobb salads named after a polo-playing millionaire.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
Credit for the Cobb salad generally goes to Bob Cobb, owner of the now-defunct Brown Derby chain in Los Angeles.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Bring a book, order some rosé and a Cobb salad, and spend an entire day reading in the overwater hammocks, or paddle boarding, snorkeling, and kayaking around the blue water.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
Bortz said the group ate Cobb salad at a long, conference room-like table with Trump at one end, with Vance seated at the table too.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
Asparagus and sugar snap peas give a seasonal spin to the traditional Cobb salad.
—Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
And at the city’s Milk & Honey, a Cobb salad with lobster rings in at a whopping $54 (adding shrimp or crab instead would leave you with just a $32 bill).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
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“Cobb salad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cobb%20salad. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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