Jac ordered a caesar salad (AU$10.50) for herself, and a pesto chicken caesar salad (AU$13.95) for me.

When the salads first arrived, we were very impressed to see they’d been served with bread and butter. Unfortunately, we soon realised the bread was stale and dry and very difficult to eat, even when buttered generously. And as we ate our salads we realised there were no croutons – none whatsoever. And the bacon seemed like mere scrapings, tiny little bits barely big enough to chew. They skimped on the parmesan too. The pesto chicken was served warm on the salad and was quite yummy, but I was rather dissatisfied with the dish overall.

And what really irked me was the assortment of leaves in our salads. As soon as I began eating I noticed the presence of rocket (some of you will know this as arugula). And then English spinach. And other salad leaves I don’t know the names of. In the photo below, I assembled a line-up of leaves for you guys to see – the lightest green leaf on the right is cos. The other leaves are… well, not cos, and shouldn’t be there. I reckon they made the salads using those cheapie bags of mixed greens. Those leaves, plus barely any bacon and hardly any parmesan and zero croutons – not acceptable for a salad called caesar. These salads bore little resemblance to the caesars we’d eaten at the other Domes, and to the descriptions/photos in the menu.

And here’s Jac’s caesar after she’d dug into it – again, not all cos.