The Cheesecake Factory
Lauretta Nagel
My sweeite and I tried out a new restaraunt in the
Inner Harbor (Baltimore) kast weekend. The food
was superb! Especially considering this is one of
a chain of places.
I ordered iced tea, thinking regular, ho hum iced tea.
I got Passionfruit Iced Tea! Yummy.
I ordered a salad, thinking I could keep some room
for dessert (well, it WAS the Cheesecake Factory :)).
I ordered the lunch portion-sized Santa Fe salad.
Lime-marinated roasted chicken, black beans, corn,
cilantro, thin slices of crisp tortillas, greens,
and the most amazing dressing. I can't remember what
was in it, but the flavor of the whole salad was a
perfect blend of southwestern USA and asian. Incredible.
BTW, the lunch salad was HUGE. (I had them wrap a third
of it to take home.)
Mark had this roasted chicken dish - with two different
Thai style sauces on the side. It came with peanut rice
and grilled plantains.
Their dessert menu - which has other things besides cheesecake -
listed the cheesecakes the way Baskin-Robbins lists their
31 flavors of ice cream. They had only one 'lite' version...
but I get if you REALLY want White chocolate double chunk
rasberry - you really don't want 'lite' to begin with. :)
If you have a chance to try this place - DO!
--
Lauretta M. Nagel
na...@stsci.edu
Sr. Data Analyst
Fine Guidance Sensors/Observatory Support Group
Space Telescope Science Institute
also Alto I with the Baltimore Symphony Chorus
Naveen Choudhury
r. bernstein wrote:
>
> In article <4vi4qn$h...@tnm.stsci.edu>, na...@spring.stsci.edu says...
> >
> >My sweeite and I tried out a new restaraunt in the
> >Inner Harbor (Baltimore) kast weekend. The food
> >was superb! Especially considering this is one of
> >a chain of places.
>
> maybe 10 years ago. It was love at first bite. Whenever we went back to
> CA, we always went there. Then one day about 3 years ago, I was driving
> to work and dreaming about their coconut battered shrimp (I *hate* shrimp
> but this stuff I could eat til I pop) and wishing they had a Cheesecake
> Factory around here (Wash. DC area). When I got to work, my husband
> happened to call and told me that he had just read they were opening a
> Cheesecake Factory in Chevy Chase. Talk about having your wishes
> granted! Unfortunately, the line at the Chevy Chase one is WAAAAY long
> every nite, but when we're not real hungry and don't mind waiting a
> while, we drive over to MD and put our names on the list, then sip on a
> Lynchburg Lemonade at the bar and dream of those shrimpies.....
There's also one on the border of Rockville and North Bethesda, MD, at
White Flint Mall. This one's slightly less crowded than the Chevy
Chase one, but still a fairly long wait, and they'll give you beepers
so that you can walk around the mall and they'll page you when you're
table's ready.
Sharon Raghavachary
In <4vi4qn$h...@tnm.stsci.edu> na...@spring.stsci.edu (Lauretta Nagel)
writes:
>My sweeite and I tried out a new restaraunt in the
>Inner Harbor (Baltimore) kast weekend. The food
>was superb! Especially considering this is one of
>a chain of places.
(tantalizing discussion of lunch snipped)
>If you have a chance to try this place - DO!
>--
>Lauretta M. Nagel
I have to agree with you that considering this is a chain restaurant
they do have great food. My husband & I go to the one near us in Marina
del Rey for our birthdays & other special occasions. It's right on the
water at the marina - very romantic. We usually start off with an
appetizer on the patio while we wait for a table & by the time we have
dinner I'm so looking forward to their cheesecake that I take most of
my dinner home in a to-go box. I do have my priorities. :)
Sharon Raghavachary
r. bernstein
>Inner Harbor (Baltimore) kast weekend. The food
>was superb! Especially considering this is one of
>a chain of places.
The first time we went to the Cheesecake Factory was in Marina Del Rey,