Possible Clues:

• Salad choice
• Apple salad
• Kind of salad named for a NYC hotel
• Hotel that lent its name to a salad
• Salad with apples and grapes
• New York hotel's bricked up, reportedly
• Salad with apples
• One of two Muppets characters named after New York hotels
• Caesar alternative
• Salad named after an hotel in New York