With close to a dozen locations throughout Los Angeles, California Chicken Cafe is a convenient stop for salad that truly feels like a full meal. The order here is the California chicken, a hearty, protein-packed behemoth of rotisserie white meat chicken, avocado, feta cheese, carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, croutons, and even fusilli pasta, all topped with a choice of dressing.

The alleged inventor of the Chinese chicken salad began hawking its now famous dish to Westside denizens in the early 1980s. With the dressing now sold at local Costcos, it’s fair to say Feast From The East just might have a salad revolution.

Nothing complements French fare quite like Petit Trois’ enduring endive salad. The bitter greens are dotted with walnut, anchovies, and, in true California-style, avocado, before being dressed in a 30-year aged sherry vinaigrette and ubriaco cheese.

Head down to the sunny beach city of Manhattan Beach for local favorite Petros. The restaurant offers exceptional Greek specialties, but the star of the show are the salads. The Horiatiki is what comes to mind when one thinks of a Greek salad, with gorgeous tomatoes, cucumbers Epirus feta, olives, avocado, capers, and a simple dressing of olive oil.

La Scala has been serving the denizens of Beverly Hills since 1956 with its now famed chopped salad. The blend of chopped lettuce, salami, mozzarella, cheese, marinated garbanzo beans, and the restaurant’s signature Leon dressing has been mimicked by many, but the original is still the one to beat.

Following in the footsteps of Feast from the East, Joan’s on Third’s chinese chicken variant has become an local power lunch staple. Served in those signature metal bowls, the blend of sliced chicken, crisp lettuce, wonton strips, rice sticks, and almonds is the kind of meal one could eat every day.

The Hatfields’ Sycamore Kitchen somehow managed to compose their salads so that diners choose them over the pastries. The go-to now is the Mediterranean Gem, a bountiful blend of gem lettuce, chicken, dates, hazelnut, radicchio, grapes, bleu cheese, and red wine vinaigrette.

While the most well-known salad at Pizzeria Mozza is Nancy Silverton’s eponymous chopped, the under-the-radar star is the tricolore. Bitter greens are dressed with anchovy dressing and a flurry of parmesan, and is the perfect accompaniment to any pizza.

This iconic salad in Pasadena mixes crunchy Asian noodles, chicken, toasted almonds, and sesame seeds over shredded lettuce for an addictive lunch. In fact, it's become so popular that Trader Joe's now has a "Pasadena" salad inspired by the Dianne at Green Street.

Âu Lạc is 100 percent vegan, so they take their salads seriously. The lacinato kale and sea vegetable salad is full of flavor with an incredibly healthy portion size, the salad holds spiced almonds, cucumber, kimchee, a macadamia “cheese” kale crisp, and a house made teriyaki dressing.

Croft Alley’s simple burrata salad exemplifies the restaurant’s style. It’s simple, comforting, and elegant with baby kale, a house-made tomato jam, light olive oil, and a mustard vinaigrette accompanied with Bub & Grandma’s baguette.

As a Middle Eastern staple, fattoush is easily found around Los Angeles. But Jaffa’s elevates this traditional salad with a light sprinkling of sumac vinaigrette, house made pita croutons, local lettuce and tomato, and a California touch, avocado.

Momed recently closed its Beverly Hills location, but the romantic Atwater Village is still going strong. Owner Alex Sarkissian recently introduced a gorgeous endive salad with roasted beets, walnuts, watermelon, feta and pine nuts, with a balsamic reduction.

It’s challenging to get excited about cauliflower, but chef Raphael Francois utilizes his wood burnign stove to lightly char the main ingredient, then carefully add harissa, cucumber, almonds, and pomegranate for a beautiful and delicious salad.