I love coming to the Cheesecake Factory whenever I'm in the US!
Bread basket - the brown bread is a sweet wheat and oat demi baguette and it's AMAZING.
It was super soft and really tasty.
Lunch portion of the Santa Fe Salad
My friend ordered the salad thinking that it would be a light meal and it ended up being huge for a lunch portion (and maybe not as light as expected).
Lunch portion of Spaghetti and Meatballs
They had really yummy tomato sauce and these two huge meatballs - talk about value for money here!
Lunch portion of Chicken Piccata
So much chicken covered in cream sauce and pasta - it was AMAZING but so heavy with all that cream. I felt like this was as heavy as a 3 course meal on the cruise.
Renee's lunch special with soup, sandwich and a salad
Can we talk about great value here? A full bowl of soup with a sandwich usually is a meal in itself, but they've also added a salad! It was probably the healthiest lunch option of all the items above and it was pretty good.
And of course, we can't forget the main attraction - Cheesecake!
I totally bought in to the un-subtle marketing on the back on the menu:
However, we had to get our table to split this cake because it was so rich.
After eating a bit of this, I came to the conclusion that this cheesecake is my favourite cheesecake so far. It was a rich, decadent hazelnut and chocolate explosion in a cheesecake form with that lovely graham cracker crust and whipped cream on the side. OMG it was so good.
Overall: I love this place for the following reasons: a) it's great value for money; b) it's delicious and everything I've tried has been really good; c) there's something like 250 items which means there's something for everyone; and d) there's amazing cheesecakes (enough said). The only downside was that we kept losing our waiter - it was pretty busy, but I would've thought that they'd be trying to get us out of the restaurant sooner after we finished our meals (it took a while before we were able to pay). It was funny because I almost forgot that we had to pay for our meal since we were no longer on the cruise - it was like a push back into the real world (not happy cruise world).
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