cheesecake factory mac and cheese burger review

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But these nachos don’t have beans either! Both the salsa and the red chili sauce are overly sweet, and, like the sweet corn cakes, these nachos are missing meat.

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Seriously, these are glorified glammed-up movie theater nachos featuring tortilla chips, smothered with cheese, an impossible to share scoop of guacamole, chaotically dispersed red chile sauce, sour cream, pickled jalapeños, green onions, and more salsa. Whether or not you like these are contingent on if you have good Mexican food in your area and if your idea of nachos is whatever they serve at the movie theater. I can’t imagine any solid reason to order these. These look a lot cooler than they actually are. In fact, I didn’t know it was salsa until I read the menu in preparation for writing this entry. This is so devoid of heat you can give it to a baby.

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Not even the slightest bit of heat, and I’m not just saying that because I grew up with Mexican food in the home and know how to make my own salsa. Calling this “salsa” isn’t even an apt description of what it is - it’s thick and much more akin to some sort of gravy and it has absolutely no heat to it. Now let’s get into this “salsa.” I don’t know who told Cheesecake Factory that salsa was supposed to be creamy but it’s not. I think that would have tied these together. They’re so sweet it’s almost a dessert, but it’s topped with some avocado and tomato, so it’s not a dessert, and also… I couldn’t help but feel like these were missing something. It’s not that the Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes are bad, they taste pretty good actually, with giant corn kernels embedded in sweet corn cakes, and the presentation is *chef’s kiss* but I don’t really get what the Factory was going for with these. Ranked lowest on our list is the Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes, a combination of sweet masa cakes topped with Sour Cream, Salsa, Avocado, and what the Factory calls “Salsa Verde,” which I’m going to get into in a bit because that deserves its own paragraph. Must-Skip Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes Dane Rivera You don’t go to this temple to gluttony to be healthy!

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Feel free to ignore calorie counts in the “great” and “must try” sections. I also listed the calories, which feels a little dickish of me.

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Hopefully, this will help the next time you find yourself at The Cheesecake Factory, frantically skimming through the menu and trying to settle on something before stuffing yourself full of bread (which I also ranked). You’ll see that I separated everything I tasted into five categories (which are also ordered, based on my preference) defined by whether or not you should prioritize ordering these dishes. There’s a certain cloak and dagger aspect among the latter group when it comes to identifying bestsellers, but they did steer me back on track in a few places. In order to get a nice variety and represent a mix of classics and cult favorites, I chose 25 items with help from other Uproxx staffers and The Cheesecake Factory team. There are over 250 permanent items served at the Cheesecake Factory, each one of them scratch-made (shout-out to kitchen staff). I was ready.Ģ5 dishes in one sitting certainly sounds like a lot, but let me reiterate to you just how massive this menu truly is. I had trained for this and now opportunity had collided with preparation. Except that my mountain would be one of carbs and sugar. For a food writer, this was like getting tapped to summit Everest. Apps, mains, sides, desserts - I was going to do it all in one wild, food coma-inducing sitting. I was assigned to hit up “The Factory” and try 25 different dishes, eating everything from spring rolls to pastas to actual cheesecakes. I was comfortable in my limited knowledge, blissfully ignorant - then everything changed. Or as game developer Max Krieger pointed out in a lengthy Twitter thread, it’s a “world of aesthetic chaos that feels like a mix between a Fry’s Electronics, an overgrown Panera and a laser tag arena.” Which has got to be the most spot-on description of The Cheesecake Factory vibe ever.

Whoever designed the interior and exterior of this restaurant was on acid because it’s insane.

As far as mainstream national restaurant chains go, this one has pretty delicious food and it’s also decidedly not inexpensive.

Seriously, if you’ve ever read through this 20+ page novella, you should feel proud of the accomplishment (even though that’s a seriously odd flex).

The place has a gargantuan menu, so large that calling it a book is putting it lightly.

Before last weekend, I knew exactly three things about The Cheesecake Factory:

Cheesecake factory mac and cheese burger review