Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | wonderful |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Club Sandwich; Cherry Cheesecake |
| Comments: | It was a great experience. You are right down on the Plaza and you can visit some of the stores while you're waiting for your table. There was a long wait, but it was worth it. The cheesecake absolutely melts in your mouth. I really enjoyed the whole environment! |
| Reviewer: | John |
Date: | 9/7/00 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | The Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Everything (American) | Price: | $$$$ expensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | excellent food brought out hot |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | always on task and friendly, but not in the way |
| Favorites: | Cajun Chicken Littles\Chicken and Biscuits |
| Comments: | Its a nice wait if the weather allows it. I waited 2 1/2 hours, but thats ok because theres lots to see in the plaza. The food was definitely worth the wait. |
| Reviewer: | Patrick |
Date: | 4/17/01 |
| Restaurant: | Cheescake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Everything | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | If you get seated in a certain place, you are elbow to elbow |
| Food: | | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | Sometimes the service is good, sometimes it's not |
| Favorites: | Lasagna |
| Comments: | The wait is sometimes a little long, but that is understandable for a place like this. The food is usually always good..not as great as everyone says though. There have been some times where the service is very attentive and great, but other times you have to wait and wait to get a refill, let alone get your order taken. There is also a certain section where you have to sit right next to the person eating next to you. This is definitly not a place to go on a date. Can be very noisy. |
| Reviewer: | Shaun |
Date: | 5/16/01 |
| Restaurant: | The Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Country Club Plaza |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | Went for lunch and we will not be back. My salad was missing ingredents both times it was brought to me. Management did not care. I guess if they are on a 2 hour wait every night my business is not important. Too bad- I am a waitress and can spread bad word fast. |
| Reviewer: | Christine |
Date: | 7/2/01 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | KC Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Everything | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Trendy but hectic and noisy, |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Lots of entrees, hard to decide |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | Very terse - little time for individual attention |
| Favorites: | Pasta, cheesecake |
| Comments: | We waited two hours - were told 75 to 90 min-KC was 100 degrees - most patrons were crammed inside trying to stay cool while waiting - pagers only good for a few hundred feet so we couldn't stray far- very noisy and hectic - not relaxing- but food was great.
Would definitely go again but try to find a less busy time. |
| Reviewer: | Richard |
Date: | 7/9/01 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | The Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Everything/Mixture | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | nice buzz |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Key Lime Cheesecake |
| Comments: | Excellent location. Be prepared to wait!!! Food is definitely worth the wait!!!!!!!! Excellent buzz!!!!! |
| Reviewer: | Russell |
Date: | 6/7/02 |
| Restaurant: | The Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | everything | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | crowded |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | very good, but not great |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | like you were a bother |
| Favorites: | Jambalaya |
| Comments: | Very overrated, the bubble will burst someday and people will
figure out that there are places they can eat that have both good food and
good service |
| Reviewer: | Conrad |
Date: | 11/22/02 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | american | Price: | ^^^ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Orange Chicken - Teriyaki Chicken |
| Comments: | Our party of eight were all extremely disappointed in food
quality. One member didn't receive his entree until 20 minutes after the
entire party and with no apology offered. This restaurant has just lost
its spark - even the cheesecakes ordered for dessert were just not that
good! For a special outing for our family we will definitely not be
returning here. |
| Reviewer: | Shelly |
Date: | 12/22/02 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Everything | Price: | ^^^ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | good date place |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | the best food in the entire world |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | attentive servers, but not annoying |
| Favorites: | Cajun Chicken Littles, Onion Straws |
| Comments: | I love the Cheesecake Factory. It's really good food for a
decent price. If you go early you won't have a wait. It's my favorite
restaurant. |
| Reviewer: | Kate |
Date: | 12/30/02 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | New American | Price: | $$$$ expensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | Ambience is over-rated. Very crowded |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | Food is over-rated. Menu is too broad to do anything well |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | You wait forever to get a table and then wait forever again |
| Favorites: | They no longer serve the only thing I'd eat there - Peanut satay pasta |
| Comments: | This place has got to be the most over-rated feed lot in the city. If it were not on the plaza it would be an Applebees. The last time I went I waited for 2 hours to sit down and another hour and an half for our food. Our waitress forgot to place the order. We had a 5 hour "dining experience" Oh, but the "generous" offering of a free slice of cheesecake was intended to make up for this. |
| Reviewer: | Michael |
Date: | 2/9/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Kansas City, MO |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | turtle cheesecake |
| Comments: | Absolutely Great! Would definately go back if I ever get the chance to vacation there again. |
| Reviewer: | Jennifer |
Date: | 2/20/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza, Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | actually great, upstairs in the bar, and way less noise |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | always fresh; hey, it's the busiest place in town |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | never a compaint from me |
| Favorites: | great salads, great cheesecake |
| Comments: | I love this place, great food, value and service. I always like eating upstairs in the bar, usually no wait and really great attentive
service. I just walk in, and walk right upstairs, no wait, it's easy as
that. I have never understood why other people can't figure this out for
themselves ... guess they enjoy waiting and then complaining about the wait
on sites such as these. |
| Reviewer: | Jack |
Date: | 4/26/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Country Club Plaza |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | shrimp new orleans |
| Comments: | I have eaten at cheese cake factory for three yeas I have simply fallen in love with the food. The only draw back is the wait is horrible for dinner, and if you are trying to get a table around the holiday season in the evening you can simply forget it. The best time to go is around lunch. The wait is not long and the experience is well worth it. |
| Reviewer: | Sandy |
Date: | 4/30/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | 119th Street, Overland Park, Kansas |
| Cuisine: | All | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Mesmerizing |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Loved their dessert |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | Ran into no descrimination |
| Favorites: | Apple Crisp with Ice Cream |
| Comments: | Large portions of food. You will see many customers taking out doggy bags. Loved the dessert and did not experience descrimination from the servers. |
| Reviewer: | Lisa |
Date: | 8/23/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheese Cake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Mexican American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Jamaican Shrimp |
| Comments: | I guess all the people that complain about the waiting are the ones that allways come late an expect the best still, we have allways made it on time and it's my favorite place to take my customers from around the world, they have allways liked it, what nobody mentions and it's making the difference it's the "mexican kitchen" yes, that's right let's accept it, if the kitchen wasn't full of mexican clean and loving cooking mexican - americans, this place would not be the same, maybe to increase the service they need to get more latin waiters and waitresses
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| Reviewer: | George |
Date: | 11/20/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | Cajun chicken pasta | Price: | $$$$ expensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Went twice, the first time our waiter was excellent. |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | presented nicely |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | most obviously enjoy their job |
| Favorites: | deserts |
| Comments: | I took a bite of my boyfriends meal, which usually I would not like (pork), I thought it tasted great. I wish i remembered the waiter's name so I could reccomend him. Plenty of deserts to pick from, but they are very pricey. |
| Reviewer: | Jennifer |
Date: | 12/28/03 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Asian chicken salad, all the pastas, filet mignon, cheesecake, tiramisu |
| Comments: | Cheesecake Factory is overrated. People make such a big fuss over it, but they shouldn't. They have many CFs nationwide. They do have a huge menu with plenty of choices. I have a lot of favorites: pastas, asian chic salad, plain cheesecake and tiramisu.
The servers are jerks and so are the hostesses. |
| Reviewer: | Kay |
Date: | 1/19/04 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | plaza |
| Cuisine: | | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | premade is a definate possibility |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | Talkative |
| Favorites: | Dirty Martinis |
| Comments: | The food here is somewhat bland, geriatric seems an appropriate word. |
| Reviewer: | Renee |
Date: | 3/23/04 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Kansas City, MO |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | ?? | Notes: | Excellent service |
| Favorites: | fried chicken salad |
| Comments: | I was an out of state vistor and heard of this place. The wait was long,but well worth it. I had some fruity drink, that I will go back for! And THAT cheesecake!!! |
| Reviewer: | Pat |
Date: | 5/31/04 |
| Restaurant: | Cheese Cake Factory | Location: | Country Club Plaza |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | They were out of there nightly special |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Shrimp and Bacon Sandwich |
| Comments: | There was a frozen french fry in my side of mayo and the bar was out of Smernoff and they were also out of the Nightly Special of Salmon. The salad was very bitter and was the worst I have ever had ffom there. Been there several times and had a party of 10, maybe they just knew that the were getting that gratuity. |
| Reviewer: | Tami |
Date: | 11/18/04 |
| Restaurant: | Cheese Factory | Location: | Plaza |
| Cuisine: | _ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | above most |
| Favorites: | Steak |
| Comments: | I waited outside for two hours. The weather was nice so it went well. Everybody seemed to be in a happy mood. It was Christmas break however. |
| Reviewer: | Glenn |
Date: | 12/30/04 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | 119th St. in Overland Park |
| Cuisine: | _ | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | Very clean |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Cheesecake, Salad |
| Comments: | Great place with good customer service! The cheesecake is excellent. Some items are a little expensive for what they are and the restaurant feels very much like a chain. |
| Reviewer: | Cory |
Date: | 2/4/05 |
| Restaurant: | Cheesecake Factory | Location: | Overland Park |
| Cuisine: | American | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | _ |
| Comments: | I've been here once. The food is good for what it is, which is higher end chain restaurant fare. Trendy suburbanites abound, so be prepared for long waits. I don't have much patience for long waits so I don't plan on coming back any time soon. |
| Reviewer: | Daryl |
Date: | 3/16/05 |
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