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Cheesecake Factory
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
-
$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
13 reviews for Cheesecake Factory
Maybe it was because I didn't have to wait in line for hours to get in, unlike the Chicago location, or maybe it was because the good food seemed great in a week where dining out, rather than having dinner brought in at work seemed like a luxury - but here goes, a chain restaurant in a Milwaukee suburb gets a 4 from me this time!
High ceilings, nice lighting, friendly service (even though they ran out of mojitos at 9 pm) helped make it a pleasant dinner experience. The vegetarian version of the Navajo fry bread sandwich was rather nice and they have what must be the largest portion of Caesar salad I've seen - the leaves, croutons and cheese come piled rather high on a gigantic plate! Which doesn't leave much room for the incredible selection of cheesecake - but we still managed to cram in some delicious Godiva chocolate cheese cake.
Great option for regular trips and predictable fare at a reasonable price.
Is this where the fat people go to get fatter? Sandwiches coated in butter than toasted to make a nice greasy mess. Although I do think Olive Garden has them beat (since OG's pasta dishes are actually 14 services), the serving sizes are more then enough to feed a family of four.
I've only been there twice, and the quality is high, but the service is terrible. And the prices are outrageous, of course since it's so much food, maybe someone would call that value. But I do not want to eat the same stuff from the doggie bag for the next three days, so no thanks.
Cheesecake factory is lame. That being said I don't like cheese cake so my review is on everything else!
Plus: There's 18 pages (at least) of food on the menu. So everyone is bound to find something.
Minus: None of it's very good. Mostly mediocre.
Service is always sub-standard, and restaurant layout is just strange.
My first review as a Yelp Elite! I don't think I've ever seen a bigger menu. 18 pages! I actually thought I wouldn't like the place because it is your typical huge chain I usually avoid, but I actually had a pretty good experience here. I stopped in for lunch and decided to try a couple of their small plate items. I had the Asparagus Salad and the Wild Mushroom Flatbread Pizza.
Both dishes were better than I expected. The salad was fresh and bright with a nice lemon vinaigrette and lots of shaved Parmesan. The Pizza had a nice crisp crust, lots of earthy mushrooms and just a touch of garlic. The best bite of the day was when I put some of the salad on the pizza itself. The lemon from the dressing really brought out the flavor of the mushrooms. Along with the food I had a surprisingly well made Pineapple Mojito. My server was polite and friendly and the restaurant is very Wheelchair Accessible. As I was leaving, I realized that I had actually gone to the Cheesecake Factory and not ordered Cheesecake! So I guess there has to be a next time. Kind of like leaving your jacket at a date's house.
For a nationwide chain, I have to say I am impressed with the quality of the food and the ambiance of this outlet in particular. It's a little more up-scale/pricey than what you'd think for a chain as well. In fact, for my birthday recently, my husband and I decided on a return visit for a late-night tapas and dessert style celebration, since the ambiance allows for romantic conversations in secluded booths--with or without liquor being served.
The main impetus for our return: Their fantastic hot spinach and cheese dip. The chips seem to be freshly made and somehow not greasy at all. Since we were focused on appetizers, we also got the Thai lettuce wraps, the firecracker salmon rolls, and the fire-roasted fresh artichokes. I'm a *huge* artichoke fan, and I'd never had them done quite like this, with both a balsamic dressing brushed on and a creamy garlic-butter dip to dip the leaves into. I ate myself silly on these. In fact, you might think that four orders of appetizers would be just about right for two people. In the case of this restaurant, you'd be wrong. We took home left-overs of three of those orders... and I digested those artichokes for a whole day before I felt hungry again!
Of course, the meaning behind the name can't be ignored either. The desserts available represent a huge variety of cheesecakes and other confections. I'm not big on cheesecakes myself, but their chocolate mousse cheesecake is not to be taken lightly--and I enjoyed the 2nd half of that serving a few days later too.
Complimenting the great food are great drinks. If you want something amazingly light and refreshing, try the frozen iced raspberry or the peach smoothie.
The wait staff are also a cut above. Courteous and solicitous without being invasive or overbearing, the two waiters we've had on our two visits were cut from the same mold and delivered our food and drinks efficiently but without rushing or crowding us.
The Cheesecake Factory is the best restaraunt in the milwaukee area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Going to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch today! Great salads and love the cheesecake! Only wish the portions weren't so large - just too much waste going on. Love Nikki H - great server and enjoy sitting outside if the weather is ever warm enough
Food so good you will come back time & time again! I had Chicken Marsala & cream of chicken soup. Both so rich & plentiful I feasted on leftovers the next day.
I had the Tarimasu Cheesecake and it was enjoyed on day 2 as well
Pricey, yes, but you get what you paid for & then some...
Friendly staff, excellent accommodations. A truly relaxing & FULL-filling experience!
Decent, but loses one star for being a chain, and a half star for being in a mall. The food is pretty good, if you like being overwealmed. The cheescake is indeed fantastic!
This restaurant sums up every bad cliche that chains have to offer. Instead of enticing customers with quality they overwhelm them with quantity in hopes that middle America doesn't know the difference. All the food here is bland and horrible. Service is mediocre to poor. As for the cheesecake I am on to that scam too. I've had it number of times and I finally figured out what was "off" about it. While the cheesecake pieces are gigantic, just like everything else on their menu, it never struck me as good creamy cheesecake, the reason, this cheesecake is way sweeter than traditional cheesecake. It tastes like they poured a ton of sugar into their recipes. Again much like the huge portions they seem to think the sweeter the better but that is not the case. I have never found a single thing on this menu worth eating. While the prices are very reasonable I would much rather pay more for less food that actual has flavor. If I could give this place a negative star I would.
I don't know why anyone would want to eat here. The food comes to you cold likes its been made two days in advance. Which wouldn't surprise me because the menu has at least one hundred choices. If I wanted specialty food I'd go to a specialty restaurant that actually has knowledge in what they are serving.
Every single time I return I wonder what I was thinking, no single restaurant can do this much variety of food well. I'm sorry they just can't. Stick to sandwiches and salads and you may make it through a lunch.
Cheesecake is really good but food is only ok. Being a vegetarian dining here is tough. Even though the menu is huge, everything is loaded with meat. I do love their salads until recently... I go here with my sister (she's a cheesecake fanatic, and makes great ones herself). The food is so big we order 1 salad and share it with the chicken on the side for her to eat (since they don't even offer a vegetarian salad option!). This is so we have room for cheesecake. Anyway, we had done this many times and could tell something was amiss. Then we figured out, they never put any dressing on the salad! Then for us to find our waitress again to tell her about this was crazy so once we did we had to wait longer for her to bring the dressing on the side which somehow didn't make it taste as good as when it's tossed on the salad. Our cheesecake was good but now we can't picture going back since that was odd and the wait is always so long. We have gone to get cheesecake to go which I think is the better option.... or even better would be to visit an actual local bakery instead of a chain that serves frozen stuff made who knows where.
