Is the Cheesecake Factory on DU's shitlist along with Olive Garden?

[skygazer]

Because I ate there tonight, had a very tasty pasta dish, a lovely mango margarita AND a slice of cheesecake. I now feel like I'm going to explode. :)

[AlCzervik]

1. i ate there a few weeks ago and had some thai chicken and shrimp, very spicy

and really good and for dessert i got the Limoncello torte which was ridiculously good.

[skygazer]

2. I considered the thai chicken and shrimp

Ended up with the da vinci pasta (I think that's what it was) which was yummy. And Kahlua Coffee Mocha cheesecake. :9

[AlCzervik]

5. sounds good, i don't go often, a few times a year and i've never had a bad meal

there. try that limoncello torte if you get a chance, it's huge of course but it's also somewhat light.

[Shine]

3. I like that restaurant!!

even if their menu takes 1/2 hr to read thru. :D

:hi:

[grace0418]

4. I don't know about DU's shit list but it's on mine. I'm glad you had a good meal there

because I've been there exactly three times and have yet to experience one. There are far too many restaurants in Chicago to bother giving Cheesecake Factory a fourth chance, unless I'm going out for someone's birthday or a work lunch and I have no control over the choice of venue. Mango margarita sounds good though, I may have to go to El Tapatio soon and have one. YUM!

[GRLMGC]

6. Huge menu

Great cheesecake. I don't know if its on the DU shitlist, but I do like it very much.

The avocado eggrolls are good.

[SeattleGirl]

7. I like the Cheesecake Factory

Never had a problem with the food or the service there.

[mentalsolstice]

8. We've never been there...

...we wave to it from "Marconi Grill" and "California Pizza", and are in awe of it, because we don't want to stand in the insane waiting line...

[AlCzervik]

9. the menu is giant, like almost too many things to choose from.

[GRLMGC]

10. The lines can be ridiculous

There is a Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena, CA that is crowded at all times. It's amazing to me.

[skygazer]

11. There were a bunch of people ahead of us when we got there

And we were seated in less than 10 minutes. I was impressed - normally we go during the week but I've never had to wait for a table. I figured I might have to spend 20 minutes or so at the bar but it was very quick.

The menu is like reading War and Peace.

[TommyO]

21. CPK! I'm absolutely in love with their roasted garlic chicken pizza.

The ones at the restaurant are to die for, and the frozen variety is pretty darned good too.

[bridgit]

12. the one here in town is uber expensive and the food blows chucks...

:puke:

[skygazer]

13. Woodchucks?

Very strange...

[bridgit]

14. no way in hell i'm going to edit...y'all just gotta deal...

but i'll edit this one :rofl:

[skygazer]

16. Sounds like something one of those Republican congressmen would do

:rofl:

[bridgit]

18. that's the spirit!!

:bounce:

[AlCzervik]

15. lots of happy Chucks in your area i bet.

:o

[bridgit]

17. oh for crying out loud you people are nit-picky...

:spray:

[WindRavenX]

19. as far as chains go, it's pretty decent

their bars are stocked very well...I've had many an excellent cocktail there.

[terrya]

20. I like The Cheesecake Factory very much

VERY generous portions. Good food, and reasonable prices. And extremely good cheesecake.

Of course all of the above is still not going to be good enough for the food snobs among us.

[Wiccan Warrior]

22. We need a DU checklist on who to avoid LOL n/t

[IntravenousDemilo]

23. Dunno, but I can think of one particular cheesecake factory that should be.

Atkins Elegant Desserts in Indianapolis.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=221&topic_id=55645

[eyesroll]

24. It's on my personal shitlist because the news media here treated the opening of a CF as news.

"Wow! We have yet another big chain restaurant! We're a real city now!"

That said, for a big chain restaurant, the food is decent. Not spectacular, but decent.

[greymattermom]

25. too much food

We can't go there unless we bring 3 people at dinner and order an appetizer and one entre. At lunch one order is enough for 2. Who has room for cheesecake?

[KG]

26. any breast feeding? was it 'authentic' cheesecake?

these are the litmus tests...

[rug]

27. Check the Arbiters of Decency Forum.

[alarimer]

28. If I lived in a place with decent restaurants, I wouldn't eat at a chain

But I don't live in such a place so chains are sometimes the better option for me. Here, we have very good, very cheap, family run Mexican places (some which happen to have 13 or 14 restaurants, so I guess they are sort of chains also) but not much else that's very good and cheap. No decent Italian places, for example.

[skygazer]

31. Actually, it's the only chain I can think of offhand that I go to

I'm the type of person who likes trying out the mom and pop places. There are some great Mexican restaurants I go to, all or most of them family owned and a couple of them just little taqueria places that serve great food for next to nothing, there's a sports bar in town that's also family owned that I go to a lot. There's an Italian place I went to once that was quite good and that's not a chain.

But I do love the cheesecake and they make a killer mango margarita. :thumbsup:

[MsKandice01]

29. Waaaay too much stuff on the menu..

Especially for an indecisive person like me. It's overwhelming. Food isn't bad but so far I haven't made the best choices from the hundreds of entrees on the menu.

[BarenakedLady]

30. Been there once in RI

I liked it. Though I have no idea what I ate. I don't think I was eating much in those days.