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Tex-Mex egg rolls, essentially a chicken fajita stuffed into a crunchy fried shell, are a stroke of genius. “Chicken” yields 86.)Īppetizers, when firing on all cylinders, are exceptional. (On the Cheesecake Factory online menu, “peppermint” yields one result. If you want to do a little planning ahead, check out the menu online (which has a search tool) and play a game I call Factorywhack, a take on Googlewhack, in which players try to search terms that return exactly one Google result.
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The menu has ads interspersed through the pages - for Coca-Cola and for the Cheesecake Factory itself. And begin looking at the different categories, from appetizers to pastas to Glamburgers (hamburgers) to SkinnyLicious. Run your fingers along its spiral binding. The menu is modern dining’s Rosetta Stone. In fact, we’ll wrap up that cheeseburger and turn it INTO a spring roll. You can have that cheeseburger AND those spring rolls, it says. And you don’t have to be sorry about any of it.
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Not only can you have it but you also deserve it. You can have anything you want, murmurs a husky, seductive voice coming from one of the ubiquitous Eye of Sauron-orange light fixtures that adorn the interiors. It came of age during the Reagan years, and in some ways still reflects the ideals of that time. The Cheesecake Factory opened its ornate, Baroque - or is it High Renaissance? - doors in Beverly Hills in 1978, and now has more than 200 locations in this country, with an additional 20 or so worldwide. It is both a declaration of hope and a testament to terrible excess. It is the idea that a menu with 250 items is not only desirable but also inevitable. It is Manifest Destiny in restaurant form. Anyway, the Cheesecake Factory is too much birthday.īut the Cheesecake Factory is also America, with all its promise and flaws. Mama suggests a small, manageable party, warning that there’s such a thing as “too much birthday.” The party gets too big, Sister winds up in tears, and everyone learns a lesson. Papa, Brother and Sister want a blow-out bash with rides, games and a long guest list. In the 1986 seminal work “ The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday,” the bears are planning Sister’s sixth birthday party. Faces had fallen the aftermath had begun. What began as an excited orgy of indulgence at the Cheesecake Factory in Marina del Rey - oohing and aahing over the nearby beach, tittering at the faux-frescoed walls and ceiling paintings that looked like they were lifted from the airbrushed hood of a Honda Civic, and plate after giant plate of heavy food - had become subdued. A rangy server with shoulder-length hair named Chad was bringing our cheesecake.