I generally order salad with Italian food, even carry out, so I've had it a couple times in the last 2 months... but the last "good" salad was a few months ago... a "foodie" type restaurant said that they had a Charred Caesar salad like one of my favorite restaurants used to have.
It was close, but not as good. The place that we used to go to 2 or 3 times a month had a salad where they would cut a head of romain into halves, then throw it on the steak grill to char the edges. Once the crutons, shaved parmesan, and their custom made dressing were on there I swear to you the salad tasted like there had been a filet mignon nestled in the center of the lettuce. It had that smokey salty taste. This new one had the same char to the edge of the lettuce, but I think the dressing was missing some of that smokey flavor.