One of my new favorite places for lunch is Papa Razzi Metro in Burlington. Of course I've already blogged about it before HERE, but today its a special post because it s bookmarked in the "28 Days of Salad" section.
The lunch menu has a few choices for salad, pizza, panini as well as some limited entree offerings. Typically, I'd go with a panini and fries or a pizza but today I went with a salad. I love their fluke panini and I'm a HUGE fan of their vegetarian option which has chicken pea and quinoa cake (and I'm not even VEGETARIAN)!
I decided I wanted to create a salad that wasn't on the menu by combining two different dishes. Luckily for me, the chef was pretty accommodating and created a delicious lunch! I know I know, I'm a pain in the ass and I can never just order a standard dish of the menu, and so the Mo and Jill tells me so.
The salad base was the Black Fig and Gorganzola which featured baby greens, pickled red onions, pignoli ( i have no idea what that is) and crispy prosciutto which tasted like premium bacon strips.
Instead of choosing one of their standard "salad proteins", I opted for the chickpea and red quinoa caked with a roasted portabello mushroom.
It was amazing!! I have no idea what the calorie count was but I will definitely order it again. The sweet fig was a nice contrast to the salty prosciutto crisps. The salad was premixed with the perfect amount of red wine vinaigrette. The chickpea/quinoa cake was reminiscent of a falafael.
Also, since I didn't pay for lunch, I have no idea what the dish cost at the end. The salad is usually $9.00 and the panini is usually $12.00 with fries so I'm thinking it's somewhere around $20.00. (Thanks Justin!)
The salad was so good, I wasn't tempted by my fellow diners who ordered Italian specialties. They both looked great though!
The lunch menu has a few choices for salad, pizza, panini as well as some limited entree offerings. Typically, I'd go with a panini and fries or a pizza but today I went with a salad. I love their fluke panini and I'm a HUGE fan of their vegetarian option which has chicken pea and quinoa cake (and I'm not even VEGETARIAN)!
I decided I wanted to create a salad that wasn't on the menu by combining two different dishes. Luckily for me, the chef was pretty accommodating and created a delicious lunch! I know I know, I'm a pain in the ass and I can never just order a standard dish of the menu, and so the Mo and Jill tells me so.
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| Metro Customized salad Black Fig & Gorgonzola Meets Chickpea & Quinoa |
The salad base was the Black Fig and Gorganzola which featured baby greens, pickled red onions, pignoli ( i have no idea what that is) and crispy prosciutto which tasted like premium bacon strips.
Instead of choosing one of their standard "salad proteins", I opted for the chickpea and red quinoa caked with a roasted portabello mushroom.
It was amazing!! I have no idea what the calorie count was but I will definitely order it again. The sweet fig was a nice contrast to the salty prosciutto crisps. The salad was premixed with the perfect amount of red wine vinaigrette. The chickpea/quinoa cake was reminiscent of a falafael.
Also, since I didn't pay for lunch, I have no idea what the dish cost at the end. The salad is usually $9.00 and the panini is usually $12.00 with fries so I'm thinking it's somewhere around $20.00. (Thanks Justin!)
The salad was so good, I wasn't tempted by my fellow diners who ordered Italian specialties. They both looked great though!
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| Chicken Parmigiana $ 19.00 |
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| Rigatoni Bolognese $19.00 |
- 2 Wall St
- Burlington, MA 01803