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| - Ah, so torn. I'm probably closer to a 3.5, but the insane calorie count convinced me to round down instead of up. While I enjoyed my meal, I don't know if I could again knowing how awful it was for me.
While running errands on the westside my gent decided he wanted to try The Cheesecake Factory because he hadn't eaten and wanted, in his words, "something heavy that will sit in [his] stomach for awhile." We made our way to the packed mall and were told it'd be a 50 minute wait. That's about what we expected so we took our pager and wandered the mall for a bit.
Somehow we managed to avoid many of the service issues that many reviewers seem to be encountering, but our server is also one of the better ones I've had in awhile at any establishment - shouts to Brianna J. if anyone from CF reads this. Our food all arrived in a reasonable amount of time, we (mostly) got what we ordered, and we were out in about an hour.
For a starter we had the Spicy Buffalo Chicken Meatballs. Not something I probably would have ordered myself, but I gave them a try and they were delicious. The bleu cheese dipping sauce was a bit ridiculous - the chunks of bleu cheese were so large that three of them took up the whole serving cup. I guess that's maybe better than undetectable amounts of cheese?
Shortly before the meatballs arrived we were also given a bread basket - the bread was soft and warm and sadly taken away when a bus boy cleared our other plates. Our server brought us another basket, though, which we stuffed in our to-go boxes later.
For entrees the BF got Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken and I had the Grilled Chicken and Avocado Club. I was bummed to find out that they don't offer the Navajo Chicken Sandwich but this was fairly close in ingredients minus the bread choice. I ordered it with cheddar instead of Swiss, and when it arrived our server asked me if it had the correct cheese. I poked around and couldn't see where it was in the monster sandwich and then we determined there was no cheese at all. Brianna was kind and apologetic and offered to take it back to the kitchen and I said that it wasn't a big deal - it's more that I don't like Swiss than that I wanted the cheddar.
The sandwich itself was really, really good. Flavorful, perfectly toasted, fresh veggies, crispy bacon. It's a towering beast - it was about four inches in height and required a good deal of smushing to get a solid bite. No complaints, though - I made three meals of the sandwich with the fries that accompanied it and the bread.
The unfortunate thing is that the sandwich comes in at 1400 calories. I don't know what they do to it - grilled chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado on bread shouldn't be that bad for you. There's a similar sandwich at Panera where the only major difference is that it's turkey instead of chicken that is 500 calories. Even if they used two full tablespoons of butter to grill the bread it wouldn't nearly triple the calorie count. If the fries were included that'd make slightly more sense, but they're listed separately on the nutrition chart so I kind of think not. Woof.
Both of us were stuffed so we opted out of ordering dessert (also...$8 for cheesecake that I imagine is mass-produced somewhere is a bit steep), but the selections in the case looked good.
The food and service on our visit was good. The price and calorie count, not so much. We'll most likely be back at some point, but if we'd have had poor service I probably wouldn't feel the need to return.
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