The chef’s salad, which may include ham, cheese and chicken, is a meal in itself; raw spinach salad with mushrooms ranks as a great American original; Caesar salad has romaine lettuce and a raw egg in the dressing; cole slaw (cabbage salad) often appears with sandwiches; Waldorf salad is composed of apples, walnuts and mayonnaise. You’ll also find a wide variety of vegetable and fruit salads often with cottage cheese specially conceived for weight watchers.
Meat. Beef takes first place. It comes in enormous portions and is almost invariably tender. In steakhouses, you often pay a Gastronomical Gazetteer
A steak may be a steak any way you slice it, but visitors to the city are sometimes confused by the local terminology.