The Cheesecake Factory.
Multiply locations see web-site; www.thecheesecakefactory.com
Pizza Style: Hand tossed.
Oven type: Unknown.
The Skinny: Save room for Dessert!
Price: $10.95 for Cheese to $12.95 for The Everything Pizza.
Chief Pizza eater says: Recommended BUT.
I don't always choose the places that I eat pizza at, some times life just toss's me a slice. The Cheesecake Factory is not the first place that comes to mind when you want pizza. Because members of my family like it, I end up there a couple of times a year, and although the food has been good I dread going. It has always been a daunting task for me to figure out what I want. Not sure if you have every seen their menu, but it looks like the New York City phone book. On this visit the Menu was something like 15-20 pages, and the print is quite small!
The Cheesecake Factory just list 10 different specialty pizza's in their menu and don't really have a build your own topping list. I guess you could ask to have one made just the way you like, but not sure what the out come would be, I may try on a future visit. I usually like to start with a salad, but knowing the portions The Cheesecake Factory servers and wanting to save room for dessert I passed on the green stuff.
For pizza I ordered the B.B.Q Chicken pizza. It had Smoked Gouda, Red Onion and Cilantro along with the B.B.Q. Chicken. The BBQ sauce taking the place of pizza sauce. All that goodness was atop what appeared to be a hand tossed crust of about 12-13 inches. The crust was done up crispy on the bottom and edge. There wasn't to much sauce or cilantro (little goes a long way in my book), If anything it could have used a few more onions, but then again I love those red onions. Had I not been saving room for dessert I would have probably ate the whole pizza even thought 1/2 or 3/4 would have been enough to satisfy my hunger.
Finally it was time for dessert and it just happens that Cheesecake is one of my favorites. My fellow (non)pizza eater and I shared a slice of Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake. If your a sweet tooth and this doesn't make your mouth water I don't know what will. Layers of Red Velvet Cake and Cheesecake covered in Cream Cheese frosting finished with White Chocolate... It was excellent, but I probably should have saved a little bit more room for it.
Overall the pizza was pretty good and I would get it again if I'm there with family. I wouldn't pass a regular pizza joint just to eat pizza at The Cheesecake Factory, So Recommended But, only if I'm there at the request of others. Just don't forget to save room for the Cheesecake!
Recommended But
Chief Pizza Eater.
GAW
The Cheesecake Factory just list 10 different specialty pizza's in their menu and don't really have a build your own topping list. I guess you could ask to have one made just the way you like, but not sure what the out come would be, I may try on a future visit. I usually like to start with a salad, but knowing the portions The Cheesecake Factory servers and wanting to save room for dessert I passed on the green stuff.
For pizza I ordered the B.B.Q Chicken pizza. It had Smoked Gouda, Red Onion and Cilantro along with the B.B.Q. Chicken. The BBQ sauce taking the place of pizza sauce. All that goodness was atop what appeared to be a hand tossed crust of about 12-13 inches. The crust was done up crispy on the bottom and edge. There wasn't to much sauce or cilantro (little goes a long way in my book), If anything it could have used a few more onions, but then again I love those red onions. Had I not been saving room for dessert I would have probably ate the whole pizza even thought 1/2 or 3/4 would have been enough to satisfy my hunger.
Finally it was time for dessert and it just happens that Cheesecake is one of my favorites. My fellow (non)pizza eater and I shared a slice of Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake. If your a sweet tooth and this doesn't make your mouth water I don't know what will. Layers of Red Velvet Cake and Cheesecake covered in Cream Cheese frosting finished with White Chocolate... It was excellent, but I probably should have saved a little bit more room for it.
Overall the pizza was pretty good and I would get it again if I'm there with family. I wouldn't pass a regular pizza joint just to eat pizza at The Cheesecake Factory, So Recommended But, only if I'm there at the request of others. Just don't forget to save room for the Cheesecake!
Recommended But
Chief Pizza Eater.
GAW
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2 comments:
There's one of these in a big mall around Portland. Always see a long line. Must be the cheesecake and not the pizza, huh?
For the record, my mouth was watering!
For me a 5 to 10 minute wait is to long for even the cheese cake. If you ever go I recommend downloading the menu and studying it for several days prior, so that aren't overwhelmed by the all choices.
Of course I recommend the Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake.
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