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Wichita garlic salad is a regional specialty worthy of national attention
I've had this at a few of the mentioned restaurants and it really is very good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/05/18/wichita-garlic-salad-is-regional-specialty-worthy-national-attention/
By now, most of the letters have fallen off the sign outside the former Doc’s Steak House in Wichita, but generations of loyal customers can still make out the restaurant’s epitaph: “HOME OF THE WORLD FAMOUS GARLIC SALAD.”
The truth is, garlic salad, a slawlike side with a base of lettuce, cabbage or both, isn’t even Kansas famous. It’s hardly spread beyond the Wichita city limits, and these days, some locals don’t know about it.
But for those who grew up on it, it’s as classic as a relish tray or a shrimp cocktail, with creamy, crunchy and intensely garlicky appeal that you don’t have to live in south central Kansas to appreciate.