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...course, somewhere called the Cheesecake Factory also offers a hefty selection of desserts. There are 36 different varieties of the eponymous speciality on offer ($5.75 to $6.95), ranging from traditional favorites like fresh strawberry cheesecake to rather more esoteric offerings like “sticky chewy chocolate pecan cheesecake.” There are also a number of other dessert offerings, including a superb, if diabetes-inducing, chocolate blackout cake ($5.95). Hungry undergraduates with approaching birthdays or holidays would do well to inform their loving families that the Cheesecake Factory will be happy to deliver any of their cakes, packed...
Pumpkin pie With about half the calories and a lot less fat, pumpkin pie is a far better choice than pecan. Like other vegetables with orange flesh, pumpkins are packed with carotenoids. If you don't feel full before dessert, the fiber in pumpkin will do the trick...
Ideal date: Sunset dinner on the beach (only works on the other coast), a Lakers game (or maybe a play, if she’s into that), and then dessert...
...savvy diner would stop there, and proceed directly to dessert. After the meze, the entrees seem oversized and repetitive. The Melkha ($12.95), an eggplant stuffed with olives, spinach, and feta cheese, is aggressively salty. No one at our table would take more than a bite. Grilled meat is just that—grilled, plain, boring. The couscous ($8.95) is just acceptable, surprising since this is the staple of the Maghreb. Ideally, each grain of couscous should be distinct and fluffy, having been steamed and re-steamed over water (but never submerged) in a couscousière, a special implement designed...
...dessert, you must order the Flourless Chocolate Torte ($5.50), spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, pepper, saffron, nutmeg and star anise, and accompanied by rich Valrhona chocolate sauce and dried fruit compote. The Crème Brulée ($5.50) is less enticing, too eggy, and not as creamy as it should be, with an incorrect proportion of custard to bruleed sugar. A dense thimbleful of Turkish Coffee ($2.00), afloat with whole pods of green cardamom, is a fine end to the meal...