Romaine Hearts with Dijon-Shallot Vinaigrette

The dressing on this salad was Chianti’s house dressing and it was very popular. (Though we kept a special honey-spiked stash in the kitchen for one of our favorite regulars, a neighborhood guy we called “Nice Guy” Eddie, who preferred things on the sweeter side.) This is also essentially the house dressing of my own home—I always have a bottle of it in the fridge ready to go. The combination of olive and grapeseed oils gives this vinaigrette a subtle complexity you don’t want to miss, so i