Food, Food, and More Food Thread

Is the Cheesecake Factory any good a place to eat??? i heard their food was quite good, but the price is expensive :sweat:

K.T.Tran wrote:Is the Cheesecake Factory any good a place to eat??? i heard their food was quite good, but the price is expensive :sweat:

The food is quite good there... It's not as pricey as you think. Some places are worse.

Much worse. :bleh:


If you like spicy food, I'd recommend the chicken and shrimp jambalaya on rice... Not overly spicy, but it does have some zip to it.

The grilled/broiled pork chops with garlic mashed potatoes are good too. :)

bmwracer wrote:
The food is quite good there... It's not as pricey as you think. Some places are worse.

Much worse. :bleh:


If you like spicy food, I'd recommend the chicken and shrimp jambalaya on rice... Not overly spicy, but it does have some zip to it.

The grilled/broiled pork chops with garlic mashed potatoes are good too. :)

Really.....looks like the next time me family goes out to eat, Cheesecake Factory be the place to eat.

I'll try the spicy food u recommend BMW :mrgreen: if it doesn't have enough of a kick, i hope there is a way i can kick it up a notch :hehe:

K.T.Tran wrote:

Really.....looks like the next time me family goes out to eat, Cheesecake Factory be the place to eat.

I'll try the spicy food u recommend BMW :mrgreen: if it doesn't have enough of a kick, i hope there is a way i can kick it up a notch :hehe:

Don't forget the cheesecake! :hehe:
-PCM

Yes, head on down to Valley Fair for Cheesecake Factory. But the wait can be long at times. :bleh: So just put your name down, then do some shopping while you wait.

dochira wrote:Yes, head on down to Valley Fair for Cheesecake Factory. But the wait can be long at times. :bleh: So just put your name down, then do some shopping while you wait.

Any difference from the Cheesecake Factory from Valley Fair and Oakridge???

K.T.Tran wrote:

Any difference from the Cheesecake Factory from Valley Fair and Oakridge???

In terms of wait times? Not sure since I haven't been at the Oakridge location.

bmwracer wrote:
The food is quite good there... It's not as pricey as you think. Some places are worse.

Much worse. :bleh:


If you like spicy food, I'd recommend the chicken and shrimp jambalaya on rice... Not overly spicy, but it does have some zip to it.

The grilled/broiled pork chops with garlic mashed potatoes are good too. :)

Yum, both sound sooooo good! :D

pcmodem wrote:Don't forget the cheesecake! :hehe:

You can always get that to go... :)


Hmm, I long while back they had various cakes as well: this absolutely wonderful (and huge) slice of German chocolate cake... Ryoko in cake form.... Unbelievable. :inlove:

pcmodem wrote:Surprised to find they now have a location in Honolulu.

yup, right smack-dab in waikiki. very popular. waited three hours to get in for LUNCH on opening weekend. not so bad now, but still busy. food's decent. sorta pricey, but what can you expect, it's waikiki. but they give a lot of food, so can't complain too much.

cheesecake's pretty tasty, but at an avg of $10 a SLICE, i can probably get dessert somewhere else. :sweat:

jholic wrote:waited three hours to get in for LUNCH on opening weekend.

I can't comprehend waiting that long to get into a restaraunt ... that's nutty! :nut:

loris wrote:

I can't comprehend waiting that long to get into a restaraunt ... that's nutty! :nut:

I feel ya there, any wait over 30min and i start to go crazy :banghead:

pcmodem wrote:Was perusing the website of The Cheesecake Factory:
http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/locations.htm

Surprised to find they now have a location in Honolulu.

My wife and our (Japanese) friend went there around January this year.
The food was good (so I've heard) however, the waitress was really rude about the tip part. She kept on reminding my wife and our friend that the tip was not included in the bill and that they should leave an additional 15% of their purchase price for tip. And this "reminder" happened about 3 times. Not to mention that on the bottom of the bill, it was even written in Japanese that the tip amount was not included in the bill and that customers have to leave an additional 15% to cover that expense.

And if you think that's bad, there is this restaurant called Keo's in Waikiki. That place has two menus. A menu written in English, and a menu written in Japanese. The menu items on the Japanese menu are noticably pricier than those of it's counterparts on the English menu. And I think that they push tips there to the Japanese as well.

ahochaude wrote:My wife and our (Japanese) friend went there around January this year.
The food was good (so I've heard) however, the waitress was really rude about the tip part. She kept on reminding my wife and our friend that the tip was not included in the bill and that they should leave an additional 15% of their purchase price for tip. And this "reminder" happened about 3 times. Not to mention that on the bottom of the bill, it was even written in Japanese that the tip amount was not included in the bill and that customers have to leave an additional 15% to cover that expense.

Guh. That's lowlife. I woulda asked for the manager.

And if you think that's bad, there is this restaurant called Keo's in Waikiki. That place has two menus. A menu written in English, and a menu written in Japanese. The menu items on the Japanese menu are noticably pricier than those of it's counterparts on the English menu. And I think that they push tips there to the Japanese as well.

That's pretty rude... Hopefully someone will blow the whistle on 'em.

bmwracer wrote:
That's pretty rude... Hopefully someone will blow the whistle on 'em.

slap that ho...i hate that shiet...the meaning of the word gratuity is truly lost...muthaf*ckers think it's an entitlement not a tip.....the shiet ain't welfare.

Tu_triky wrote:slap that ho...i hate that shiet...the meaning of the word gratuity is truly lost...muthaf*ckers think it's an entitlement not a tip.....the shiet ain't welfare.

Yup. They think it's owed to them for being there... Sorry, but you got earn it.

bmwracer wrote:
Yup. They think it's owed to them for being there... Sorry, but you got earn it.

seriously....

Tu_triky wrote:seriously....

Heh, I thought you were gonna say "Word...." :rolleyes: :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Heh, I thought you were gonna say "Word...." :rolleyes: :hehe:

hehe. nice :)

that would have been appropriate...i actually was going to go in to this incident that exemplifies the point but i thought i'd spare ppl the drama this early in the day.


given the thread...have you ever eaten at gyu-kaku, this japanese bbq place. they have one in the south bay in torrance. oishii, sugoku.

Tu_triky wrote:given the thread...have you ever eaten at gyu-kaku, this japanese bbq place. they have one in the south bay in torrance. oishii, sugoku.

I've heard the name somewhere, but no, haven't been there *runs off to Yahoo! Maps*