house salad

noun

US
: the regular salad in a U.S. restaurant
Would you like the house salad or a spinach salad?

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Instead of a leafy house salad, diners get chunky shareable beets with horseradish, speck and a jammy egg. — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025 Dinners include au jus and creamy horseradish, house salad, mushrooms, mashed potatoes and corn. — Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025 Hummus, baba ghanoush and a house salad are among the buffet’s cold items, but unfortunately, there is no pita bread. — Tamara Dunn, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026 The deal includes 10-ounce servings of slow roasted prime rib with roasted garlic, horseradish, au jus, house salad and baked potato. — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for house salad

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