Foods Series: The Cheesecake Factory

I decided that I want to start sharing some of mine and Rudy's favorite places to eat at. I guess you can call this a new series that I will be featuring on my blog. We love to eat out it was one of the things we would most do when we barely started dating. Now we rarely eat out except for once or twice a week on Saturday or Sunday. We do make an acceptation for special occasions and when we are on vacation. I now cook dinner for Rudy and myself and I really enjoy it.

A lot of places we go to may not be anything new to many but the food choices might be. The first restaurant I am going to be sharing is The Cheesecake Factory. This is on the top of my favorite restaurants list. Yesterday Rudy and I decided to eat here and I was so excited since I had been asking him to go here for a while now and the last time we did was months ago while we were in Anaheim.

First for drinks, I typically ask for water or tea. Since our last Disneyland trip I have found myself asking for something different such as lemonades which is pretty shocking. If you know me then you would know I hate anything with lemon or lime in it. Maybe its me growing up and my taste changing but I have been really been enjoying the change in beverage choice. I was looking over their drink menu and ordered myself a raspberry lemonade. I'm sure everyone has already tried this by now but it was new to me and it may be for at least one of you out there. This drink was so yummy! Rudy had ordered himself a usual beer and when he took a sip of mine he told me he was going to order that next time we come back! They had more flavors and next time I want to give the hibiscus one a try.

Every time I go to the Cheesecake Factory I order the same thing, every single time for the past 6+ years, maybe even more. This is the main reason why I love eating here and it is the "spicy chicken chipotle pasta"! I was never a fan of their pastas until one day I randomly saw this one on their menu and I was intrigued when I read spicy chipotle. It was love at first bite! I recommend this pasta to everyone. One of the first times Rudy and I ate here he took a bite of my pasta and loved it! Now 9 out of 10 times he orders it too. Don't let the spicy chipotle scare you if you don't typically like spicy foods. I don't consider this to be very spicy at all. I love the sauce it is so incredibly good! Very different than the usual pastas I have tried. This pasta contains; chicken, peas, yellow and red peppers, asparagus, and these crunchy onion toppings. This was when my love for asparagus blossomed since I had never tried it prior to this. This is by far my favorite pasta I have ever had. I really want to learn how to make this myself but it's probably a good thing I don't know how to make it or else I'd be so sick of it because I know I'd be eating it nearly every day ha ha!!

We don't always order dessert and if we do most times we take it to go. I love their cheesecakes because they have such a wide variety to choose from. Some of my favorites are the white chocolate raspberry truffle, vanilla bean, red velvet of course, and their chocolate tuxedo cream. I always love to try their newly added cheesecake and that was what we did. We were about to order a usual when I saw the salted caramel cheesecake. I love salted caramel desserts, especially anything salted caramel chocolate! "heart eyes for days!!" Of course this was so good and not too sweet either which is always great. Rudy and I split it since their slices are so huge. Also for every slice of this cheesecake sold the Cheesecake Factory will be donating money towards Feeding American to help fight hunger. You will be doing a good thing while indulging in another.

And nothing beats eating left overs the next day!

This was a quick post and I wanted to share with you guys one of my favorite restaurants along with some favorite foods. If you haven't tried this pasta yet you should really do so and let me know how you end up liking it. I look forward is making more posts like this and sharing lots more places and plates that I enjoy eating. Maybe this will help you decide on a spot to eat when you just can't seem to choose where to go, which I do all the time.

Xo
Juliana