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The Cheesecake Factory was called the best chain restaurant in Los Angeles (though of course the chain is nationwide with very consistent quality) by Toby Young, restaurant critic for London's Evening Standard. He said in Slate:

The restaurant I've been most impressed by so far is the Cheesecake Factory in Brentwood. I had a cobb salad there last week that was every bit as tasty as the cobb salad I had at the Ivy, yet it was brought to my table in half the time and it was a quarter of the price. In Britain—indeed, in France—there just aren't any midmarket restaurant chains to match the quality of the Cheesecake Factory.


The Maui salad and Evelyn's pasta are favorites of mine there.