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- The Cheesecake Factory is removing 13 items from its menu to make room for new offerings.
- Among the items being discontinued are the everything flatbread pizza and seared ahi tuna salad.
- New menu items include the double smash cheeseburger, grilled branzino, and steak frites.
The Cheesecake Factory, which is famous for its big portions and even bigger menu, is updating its offerings with nearly two dozen new items.
Nation’s Restaurant News reported that The Cheesecake Factory updates its menu, which has over 200 items, roughly twice a year.
To make space for new dishes, the chain is also discontinuing 13 items, including its mushroom-topped burger and two items off its “SkinnyLicious” menu.
The Cheesecake Factory menu items that are being discontinued include:
- Everything flatbread pizza
- Mushroom burger
- Seared ahi tuna salad
- White chicken chili
- Spicy cashew chicken
- Bistro shrimp pasta
- Fried shrimp platter
- Petite filet
- Factory Combinations
- Loaded mashed potato omelet
- Taco Dorados and eggs
- SkinnyLicious lemon herb Parmesan chicken
- SkinnyLicious spicy shrimp pasta
The Cheesecake Factory is also adding 22 new menu items, from burgers and sandwiches to vegetable appetizers.
Many of the new menu items align with the biggest trends in fast-food and casual dining. Among the new menu items, the chain added a smashed double cheeseburger and spicy chicken and jalapeño fritters to its lineup.
Smash burgers and spicy chicken remain two of the most popular menu trends, with other chains like Chili’s and Sonic Drive-In leaning into those categories in the past year.
Here are all the new menu items now available at The Cheesecake Factory.
Grilled asparagus
The grilled asparagus comes served on a bed of lemon ricotta with toasted almonds.
Honey-roasted carrots
The carrots are slow-roasted and glazed in maple brown butter.
Charred sugar snap peas
The snap peas are seared with fresh herbs and dressed in a chile-lime vinaigrette.
Asian cucumber salad
The salad comes with crispy cucumbers, sesame, soy, garlic, and mild red chiles.
Ahi tuna and shrimp ceviche
The ceviche is made from sushi-grade ahi tuna and poached shrimp, per the chain. It’s tossed with green onion, cilantro, and lime juice, and served with guacamole and corn tortillas.
Chicken and jalapeño fritters
The fritters are lightly battered and fried with fire-roasted chiles, cheddar cheese, and green onion.
Chicken shawarma
The chicken shawarma is served in a halved pita with grilled chicken, tomato, homemade pickles, onion, garlic, and cilantro.
It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.
Mortadella Panino
The Mortadella Panino is made with Mortadella, melted fontina cheese, lemon ricotta, arugula, and onion garlic aioli on toasted ciabatta bread.
It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.
Double Smash cheeseburger
The new burger comes with two patties, two slices of cheese, grilled onions, and special sauce on a toasted Brioche roll.
It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.
Thai stir-fried noodles
It’s made with Asian rice noodles, snow peas, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, green onion, egg, cilantro, and chopped peanuts.
The dish is also available with shrimp.
Seared tuna tataki salad
While one tuna salad is exiting the menu, this new salad has sushi-grade ahi tuna seared to a rare temperature, avocado, tomato, sesame, soy, and cilantro with mixed greens tossed in a shallot vinaigrette.
Grilled branzino
The new entrée is a charbroiled branzino fish fillet with lemon and fresh herbs, mashed potatoes, and green beans.
SkinnyLicious branzino
The SkinnyLicious version of the branzino is grilled with tomato, basil, shallots, and garlic. It comes with mashed potatoes and green beans.
Steak frites
The new steak frites come with a charbroiled rib-eye steak in a red wine sauce, grilled onions, and garlic-herb butter and is served with Parmesan french fries.
Spicy ginger beef tenderloin
The Asian-inspired dish comes with pieces of filet mignon sautéed with shiitake mushrooms, snap peas, peppers, and onion, with a spicy sesame-ginger sauce. It’s served with a side of white rice.
Grilled steak and eggs
One of the chain’s new brunch dishes is the grilled steak and eggs, which includes a grilled ribeye steak, two eggs, potatoes or tomatoes, and toast.
Yuzu Crush
The nonalcoholic drink is made with yuzu and fresh lemon.
Yuzu Drop
There’s also a martini version of the drink that’s made with Grey Goose vodka and elderflower liqueur and shaken with yuzu juice and kaffir lime.
Margarita Verde
The margarita is made with Código blanco tequila, chile, lime, and pineapple.
Japanese whiskey sour
The cocktail is made with Toki Japanese whiskey with yuzu and honey.
Kids’ strawberry shortcake
The kid-sized dessert comes with a piece of shortcake, vanilla ice cream, and strawberries.
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