Quick lunch at The Essential Baking Company!

Had this lovely salad the other week at Essential Baking Company in Fremont...I love salad with some good quality protein and a killer vinaigrette like this.  

This one was the "Essential Bread Salad" that had bread toasted in olive oil, with organic mixed greens, roasted fennel, kalamata olives, prosciutto and shaved parmesan, tossed in their house-made balsamic vinaigrette.  It was seriously sooo filling with all the croutons they had in there!  But even though I was pretty full at the end, I couldn't help myself and bought one of their deliciously flaky apricot thumb print cookies, YUM!  Any of their locations is always a treat.