: 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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Some of our favorite chicken dinner salads are classic American fare, like a chicken Caesar or a Cobb salad.
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Hannah Lee Leidy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Fresh Gulf fish is handled beautifully, and the lobster Cobb salad makes a strong case for a languid lunch.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2026
Starters include options such as roasted bone marrow with chorizo or classic Caesar and Cobb salad.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 7 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
The soup and salad section features chilled white asparagus soup, mixed greens, strawberry and goat cheese salad, and Cobb à La Niçoise, which is similar to an American Cobb salad.
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Apr. 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
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Hannah Lee Leidy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Fresh Gulf fish is handled beautifully, and the lobster Cobb salad makes a strong case for a languid lunch.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2026
Starters include options such as roasted bone marrow with chorizo or classic Caesar and Cobb salad.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 7 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
The soup and salad section features chilled white asparagus soup, mixed greens, strawberry and goat cheese salad, and Cobb à La Niçoise, which is similar to an American Cobb salad.
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Apr. 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
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“Cobb salad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cobb%20salad. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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