Cobb Salad

The Park’s Cobb Salad is undoubtedly one of the most ordered dishes on The Park’s menu. And it is a dish with an interesting history.

Perfectly balanced, full of protein and very flavourful, it originated at Hollywood’s Brown Derby Restaurant in the late 1930s. The exact circumstances of its creation are a little hazy, although we know it was named after the restaurant’s owner, Robert Howard Cobb.

The salad apparently evolved when Cobb put together a selection of leftovers, including bacon, avocado and chicken, along with lettuce and blue cheese and some French dressing, for a late night snack for him and showman and theatre owner Sid Grauman, best known these days for Grauman’s Chinese Theater, still a Hollywood attraction. The ingredients were finely chopped because supposedly Grauman had just had dental work done and couldn’t chew well.

Whether Cobb ‘invented’ the dish, or his chef Paul J Posti did is subject to conjecture. At any rate, Cobb got the credit and a dish that quickly became a favourite with celebrities and film industry professionals was soon re-created across the world.