November 14, 2007
Free Salad Today in Penn QuarterChinatown
Salad days are usually something we look back on with a mix of nostalgia and embarrassment, but the folks at Chop't Salad are embracing them from the get go and celebrating them as soon as they kick off. How? Free salad.
Penn QuarterChinatown's newest resident is throwing the doors of their first Washington location wide open today with free salad for all who stop by. The idea behind Chop't is customization. With a bevy of ingredients to choose to make whatever disgusting combination you like, you and your friends can have competitions to see who can come up with the most unlikely melange to gross out the line workers. If you're the uncreative type, Chop't has a variety of preset recipes like the Palm Beach Shrimp and Chop't Po Boy, so you can save your genius for work. Be sure to check out their 27 dressing options—the best part of salad, right?—which range from fresh-squeezed lemon juice to General Tso's Chipotle.
Chop't promises to sling the greens and have no truck with your coinage until the leaves run out, so you might want to stop by early. Doors open at 11 a.m., so get going.
Thanks to Sara Levine at Washingtonian for tossing us this salad tip!
Chop't Salad
730 7th St. NW
202.347.3445
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
Lettuce photo from bcballard.
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Good luck, Chop't. You don't win friends with salad.
And they won't win friends with a stupid spelling either.
fuck that, it's free. you'll get elected president if you give stuff out for free.
What a world it would be if the opening of Chop't was the impetus for a Minor Threat reunion.
Since when is the block of 7th street across from the MCI Verizon Center in Penn Quarter?
The cafeteria in my office building has "salad day" every thursday and it sucks.
Also, they always have the least healthy salads like something with ranch dressing or sour cream and cheese. I think some ladies like to fool themselves into thinking if it's called a salad it must be good for you.
IMGoph - I hope I can count on your write-in vote Because a vote for Monkeyrotica is a vote for FREE COCKPUNCHES!
It's Monkeyrotica time! Don't be late!
It should be Chinatown not Penn Quarter.
If anyone is interested in getting a free salad today--- don't be. The line was so long, it was very very long. I did not wait.
huh?
I'm lovin the General Tso's Chipotle! Right up there with Kung Pao Habanero, BBQ Crab Rangoon, and Tequila Sauerbraten Gelato (Hitler's favorite salad dressing!) They've practically stolen the menu from Seamus von Leninburg Standing Horse's Omni Ethnic Sub Pub.
have no truck with your coinage
It's an oblique way for Chop't to say they support William Jennings Bryan for President. Clearly his bold stance against Darwinism will win him much support in the hookworm-and-Bible belt. Free Silver FTW!
I think you're probably right about the neighborhood. What are our boundaries here, though? Is G Street the north boundary of Penn Quarter? What's the difference between Gallery Place and Chinatown? Someone make a google map.
It's definitely Chinatown and I stood in line for an hour. Not worth it for $10 salad, but for free salad....
Personally, I am going to wait for the rival chain "Tost Salad" to open in Dupont...
Thanks to Sara Levine at Washingtonian for the tossing us this salad tip!
Nice work flubbing the salad tossing quip.
hey monkeyrotica,
i appreciate the fact that you have been able to crank out the sarcastic and funny quips for so long without getting stale, but seriously...punch your own cock, dude.
are you one of those people for whom something can't be defined as food unless it's been killed? a well made salad is a tough thing to do. it can have meat in it or can be a vegetarian or vegan meal.
if you don't like it, don't eat it. but this vegetarian is going to keep eating salads, and i'll kick anyone in the balls who wants to take my salad bowl away from me. even a monkey.
My search for a priapism-inducing salad have been documented elswhere. If these guys can pull one off, more power to them. However, I'll hold off on judging their price-performance ratio until the reviews come in. Until then, I will continue to wander the landscape, lamp in hand, looking for an honest caesar salad (lightly poached egg, NO anchovies, whole romaine hearts) or a decent arranged cobb salad, tossed by the server at the table, with enough ingredients to smother a nun.
And I'll thank you to get off the high horse. To quote Mr. Spock, "We all feed on death. Even vegetarians."
i'm on no high horse here. your statements seemed to me to say that a vegetarian meal isn't sufficient for you. if i misread that, fine. i did say that a salad can have meat in it. i don't care what other people eat one way or another. i was just stating that I am a vegetarian, and i felt the need to assert that as you seemed to be assaulting that diet choice.
I'm not knocking salads or vegetarian diets. I am knocking trendy eateries that seem to make a lot of slick promises but don't deliver. (This seems to be a trend in DC for some reason.) Scanning the Chop't menu, it seems you can get out with a basic salad for around $5 and change, but once you start adding a couple "premium" items, that total goes up FAST, thereby putting it out of my lunch price range. Again, it's your call if you think it's worth your time and money, but I'm on hold until I read a few more reviews.
Besides, WTF takes diet advice from me? I've put stuff in my mouth that I'm not proud of, and that my lady friends would be embarrassed to admit they've agreed to stuff there. And as a confessed fiber junkie, my monthly "de-coking" procedure involves a lot of bulk roughage intake, so salad is definitely on the monkey menu.
Remember: the biggest killer of men in their 40s is colon cancer; in their 50s, it's prostate cancer. Clearly, the key to a long life is lots of fiber and boxing-the-jesuit regularly. Dr. Monkey's orders.