Aroma Cuisine
While the salad section on their menu is small, they do what they do extremely well. Their smoked salmon salad and their baby spinach and pear salad are delicate and fresh, beautifully presented and go perfectly with some decadent foie gras. G/F, 202 Queen’s Road Central, 2505 0555. $340.

Dressed
With oodles of toppings to choose from, it’s tempting to create your own salad – but their set combinations are pretty tasty too. Their special price set-lunches with salad and soup are a particularly good deal. 2/F, IFC Mall, Central, 2295 4848; G/F, QRE Plaza, 202 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, 2893 4848; B3, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, 2527 4848. $180.

Gala Salad
You can even create your mix online before you pick it up at the counter at this salad haven. It’s affordable, fresh, and they’ll do exactly what you want. Consider it salad wish-fulfillment. 3A1, G/F, Cheung Lung Industrial Building, 10 Cheung Yee St, Cheung Sha Wan, 2156 9218; www.galasalad.com. $90.

Just Salad
Their salads are tasty and relatively easy on the wallet, given that this is a city where it’s more expensive to eat mixed greens than roast duck. Try the grilled veggie salad – the Portobello mushrooms are deliciously juicy. C1, World Wide House, 19 Des Voeux Rd, Central, 2537 0316; B, G/F, 30-34 Cochrane St, Central, 2850 6818. $100.

Le Salon de Thé de Joël Robuchon
The truffle vinaigrette on their mixed green salad makes even the thought of toppings seem superfluous. The oil is so fragrant and rich, all it needs are the fresh garden greens. Simple, but oh so refined. 3/F, The Landmark, 16 Des Voeux Rd Central, 2166 9088. $300.

Life Café
The salads here are incredibly wholesome and very tasty. Greens with roasted pumpkin, beets and tofu, for example, make for a delicious meal that is both satisfying and healthy. The décor is hippie chic and very cosy. Curl up with a salad and it’s love at first bite. G/F-2/F, 12 Shelley St, Central, 2810 9777. $250.

The Lounge
The lunchtime buffet has a great salad counter – get all you want tossed up, and dig in. The greens are crisp and the toppings bring together a nice assortment of eastern and western flavours. JW Marriott Hotel, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, 2810 8366. $300.

Pizza Express
While people tend to go straight to the pizzas on their menu, their salads are outstanding. Their buffalo mozzarella is perfect – soft and creamy and drizzled with olive oil. It features in a Caprese salad with arugula, onions, olives and yummy sun-dried tomatoes, as well as in the purist version – with slices of fresh tomato and a bit of pesto. Their warm grilled chicken and aubergine salad with almonds on a bed of arugula with honey vinaigrette is also excellent. Citywide, 2850 7898. $320.

Red
The salads on their weekly lunch menus keep changing, and are each as creative and delicious as the last – from seafood and green papaya with crispy shallots and sweet chilli dressing, to their baby leaf salad with pear, green apple and blue cheese dressing. Their classic Cobb salad, a regular on their a la carte menu, is also a winner. 4/F, Two IFC, 8 Finance St, Central ,8129 8882; 2/F, Kinwick Centre, 32 Hollywood Rd, Soho, 8199 8189. $400.

Simply Life
Their counter of prepared salads, beets with orange, Greek, Nicoise and the like, is perfect for a quick lunch. Grab-and-go or eat in – the veggies are fresh and their dressings are exotic and drizzled generously. Shop 1081, 1/F, IFC Mall, Central , 2234 7356. $150.