Boy, has my email box been getting slammed today! This morning I asked readers to tell me the best places to buy chicken salad, and folks are keeping the cards and letters coming. Tell me your favorite place, and tell me also, have any of you tried Penny’s Pantry in Senatobia? I’ve gotten a dozen or more emails about it but I’ve never been there…
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Responses to “Best chicken salad”
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
This isn’t about chicken salad or Penny’s (would love to hear about it though) but it’s about the blog. Can someone point me to the rss feed (for the blog, not the comments..which is a nice upgrade but the blog rss is my daily reading)? Does every link have to go through the M3emphis.com link? Not a bad idea, but it’s executed poorly.
Thanks and hopefully I’m just overlooking it.
Gregg
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
If you guys ever get a Whole Foods, they have a curried chicken salad which is my absolute favorite: sweet and spicy with almonds and currants in it. Their Sonoma chicken salad is also quite good - http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/salad/chicken_sonoma-cb.html
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I like the tarragon chicken salad at Bogie’s Deli. It is especially nice on Friday when you can get a combination platter w/shrimp salad (they only serve it on Thurs. & Fri. & are usually out by lunchtime), chicken salad, pasta salad, tuna salad & potato salad. Each one is uniquely seasoned & there is easily enough for two or another meal.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I forgot to mention the WORST - Fresh Market’s Waldorf Chicken Salad. It has entirely too much honey in it & I would never eat it again. I even took what I bought around my office w/some extra plastic forks so people could taste & know not to order it themselves. They claim it is one of their best sellers, but it is cloyingly sweet.
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Last weekend we got, for the first time, the rotisserie chicken salad at Costco and it was SO delicious. If you want to eat at home, this is definitely the place to buy the chicken salad. My second favorite is Lenny’s. You can buy it by the pound there (a little known fact) if you want to eat at home or if you don’t belong to Costco. The chicken salad sandwich at Lenny’s is excellent.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Okay, I know this is gonna sound strange…but Arby’s actually has a totally awesome chicken salad wrap. There are big chunks of chicken and apple - tastes so much like my homemade. Jason’s Deli also has good chicken salad.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Napa Cafe has a fabulous Dijon chicken salad. And while it is not a traditional chicken salad, the cous cous chicken salad at LuLu Grill is excellent.
I agree with Greg that subscribing to an RSS feed is the way to go. I was getting a feed for Whining and Dining last year that worked with my Yahoo reader but when Leslie left and the URL changed the feeder stopped updating.
One blog feature that I miss is the listing that used to show the most recent comments posted. Often folks will make a great comment on an older posting but it is now hard to find them.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I agree…Arbys has a really good chicken salad wrap and sandwich (if you don’t mind 1″ thick bread). Lenny’s is good as well and I have it about once a week. The new one at Wendy’s isn’t bad, but it has a taste to it that I haven’t quite figured out. I’ll have to try the rotisserie chicken salad at Costco…sounds delicious!
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I teach at Northwest MS Community College in Senatobia, though I live in TN, and have eaten the chicken slad at Penny’s Pantry many times. It is very tasty, the best in Senatobia, but I don’t think it is as good as the chicken salad at Costco or Lenny’s (see my earlier posting).
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I’m a chicken salad purist. I don’t like any of that california junk in my Southern chicken salad. James Food Center in Oxford has the absolute best plain old chicken salad you can buy. Chicken salad is like tea. It doesn’t need to be messed with. Whoever had the idea that tea needs mango or passionfruit in it? I’d like to have a serious conversation with that person.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
Okay, as a matter of course I have made a scientific study of chicken salads in Memphis. Specifically as available for lunch time consumption. As several have pointed out, Lenny’s makes a dang fine sandwich and also have it available as a salad. If you order at Lenny’s ask for the red pepper relish on top. The relish is the bomba.
Young Avenue Deli has a really excellent chicken salad as well. I haven’t figured out what the secret spice is that they use.
Buns on the Run in the Cooper-Young area has a good basic chicken salad but they have exceptionally nice staff and a kicky atmosphere. They will split the salad between chicken/tuna/shrimp depending on what’s in the kitchen that day. They also have a dang fine spinach mushroom sandwich which I’ve been consuming of late when I go there.
I am also a fan of Bogie’s salad and had all but forgotten about it so thanks to the person above who mentioned it.
Arby’s chicken salad is pretty good for a fast food joint. They do add grapes and pecans and will serve it on a bed of lettuce if you don’t like the wrap venue.
Mentions should also go to Crumpet’s (pricey but elegant presentation), Front St. Deli (basic, no fruit or nuts), and Cafe deFrance (artistic, served on trendy greens).
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:08 am
I went to a reception at a place in Jackson, TN (Premiere Place is the name, I think!) and they had a roasted chicken salad that was delicious for funky chicken salad. That said, I’m a purist and I like Calvary Waffle Shop Chicken Salad, Little Tea Shop, Lenny’s and mine!
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Can’t believe no one mentioned the chicken salad at La Baguette…pretty simply done with onion and celery (downside is it can be a little stringy sometimes). Also, the Sundried Tomato Chicken Salad at Wild Oats is pretty good too.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Onions are a problem….when they are in chicken salad, it’s the only thing you taste. Deliver me from onions in my chicken salad or pimento cheese or tuna salad. Yuck!
May 4th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Paradise Cafe in Regalia Center (Poplar & Ridgeway) has four varieties of chicken salad - basic, curried, dijon
and Lite. The basic and curried contain walnuts and raisins. You can buy it buy the pound but it’s pricey.
The cafe inside Germantown Baptist Church has a delicious tarragon chicken salad also sold by the pound.
At lunch you can get chicken salad on a croissant, bag of chips and a drink for $4.00.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Anywhere that puts curry powder in it. It compliments chicken salad like nothing else. Jimmy Wilson
May 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Finally, some kudos for the chicken salad at La Baguette, which I consider the best in Memphis. Perfect on their buttery, flaky croissants. Also, the old Seesel’s made a delicious chicken salad, but they no longer offer it. The Schuncks version has too much pickel relish, overwhelming the taste.
May 7th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’ll have to direct my former co-worker to the chicken salad at Schnucks, which I haven’t tried. She used to buy Seessel’s & then put pickle relish in it.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Years ago our family ate out at the Connestoga Steak House in Horn Lake, MS. It was one of the few places to eat out back in the 70s. Does anyone have the recipe for their wonderful beer/potato rolls? I can still taste them!
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