Tender Greens

If you want a serious salad, one with which real care is taken, you'd better seek it out at a serious restaurant. You'll probably only find it as a first course, and you'll probably pay pretty dearly.

But now there's Tender Greens, a salad cafe that opened last month in Culver City. That's where two chefs who escaped from hoity-toity Santa Monica hotel kitchens (Matt Lyman from Hotel Casa del Mar and Erik Oberholtzer from Shutters on the Beach) have partnered with Scarborough Farms in Oxnard to create something truly original and fun.