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Chop’t Opens in Penn Quarter and Dishes Out Free Salads
By
Sara Levine
This Wednesday, lunch is on Chop't. Photograph by Whitney Spivey.
Let’s hope Wednesday's weather is better than Tuesday's , because there’s sure to be a line outside the new Chop’t in DC’s Penn Quarter as the salad shop dishes out free lunch—anything on the menu!—for opening day. Chop’t will open its doors at 11 AM and promises to whip up free salads until the lettuce runs out.
The designer-salad company is already a popular work-lunch standby in New York City, where it has three locations. The Penn Quarter store is the first non-Manhattan venture for founders Tony Shure and Colin McCabe, who will be meeting and greeting the DC crowd at tomorrow’s opening. At Chop’t, customers either craft their own salads—choosing from six greens, dozens of gourmet toppings, and 28 house-made dressings—or pick one of the “chef-designed” options. The Beverly Hills Chef tops a bed of iceberg with grilled chicken, salami, mozzarella, tomato, chickpeas, and either red wine or Dijon vinaigrette. Once you’ve selected ingredients—say, spinach with hearts of palm, grilled shrimp, edamame, slivered almonds, and five-flavor Asian dressing—they’re thrown into a bowl and hand-chopped with a double-bladed mezzaluna. Any salad can also be ordered as a wrap sandwich, and a handful of soups round out the menu.
Like its popular lunch-rush competitor Cosi, Chop’t will offer flatbread with every salad. So if you’re a little tired of that daily Cosi Signature Salad, this could be a worthy change of pace.
Chop’t, 730 Seventh St., NW; 202-347-3445; choptsalad.com.
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As one of Chop’t’s founders, I can’t say how happy we are to finally get open and we’ve been thrilled with the reception. In answer to the last post, we are a bit more expensive than some places, but our food is made fresh from scratch everyday and our produce comes in every morning. We pay more for our food than our competition. I hope that it shows in the end product. Thanks,
Colin
Posted by: Colin McCabe | Nov 20, 2007 08:36:35 AM
Sounds like a great place for me to go for lunch since I work close by. It’s reasonably priced for lunch too which is nice.
Posted by: Jane B. | Nov 15, 2007 09:13:41 AM
This is the BEST thing that could ever happen to DC. If you think a tossed salad is good at High Noon or Cosi, you have not lived. Originally from NYC I have counted the minutes for a place like this to open..........THANK YOU ...THANK YOU!!
Posted by: Kathleen | Nov 14, 2007 02:14:53 PM
That line ’round the block at 11:30 this morning leads me to believe this will be a popular place!!
Posted by: McLean | Nov 14, 2007 11:30:31 AM
Prices don’t sound too bad - $5.99 for a salad with four toppings (though some toppings have upcharges).
Posted by: Sara | Nov 14, 2007 08:04:25 AM
Chopt’t is the best
Posted by: qUEEN t | Nov 14, 2007 07:55:02 AM
Sounds like a nifty idea. But do these designer salads come at expensive designer prices?
Posted by: Angie | Nov 13, 2007 01:39:53 PM
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