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| - Normally I don't review chain eateries but I'm feeling inspired after tonight's takeaway dinner.
It's all too easy for National chains to slip into mediocrity (my fave eatery phrase). Many start with ideals of quality, sourcing, and customer care, and get shoddy over the years. Not so for the Cheesecake Factory. Year after year, ingredient quality, service and food prep stay at a superb level.
Tonight: Sheila's chicken and avocado salad. The greens were super-fresh and included chicory, arugula, and baby spinach. Crispy won-tons (I removed mine), cashews, moist breast slices, perfectly ripe avo's, and a few other items rounded things off. As a carb-conscious diner with a healthy appetite, this dish was most satisfying.
In the past, I've also enjoyed the Asian chicken salad, grilled salmon with mashed (ok, it was a carb-splurge day ;) and 3-4 other dishes I can't recall.
Their managers are even gracious if there's ever an issue.
My "only" humorous-complaint is their menu listing several pages of "specialties". If everything is "special", then nothing is. But this is a trivial thing. Their food rocks!
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