Try a Jello no-bake cheesecake. I've found that outside of a restaurant this is the best way to go.
Try a Jello no-bake cheesecake. I've found that outside of a restaurant this is the best way to go.
How about a good bakery....
Walk to Junior's and get me some cheesecake!
Eli's Cheesecake is scrum-deli-cious! you can even order it online.
Made here in Chicago. Different than New York style cheesecake. Its a little dryer, a little denser, but oh so good.
I agree, cheesecake is indeed the world's greatest food.
If you can't get cheesecake, any bakery worth its salt should have canoli. It's a tube-shaped pastry shell with cheesecake-like filling. Sinful.
i make a great NY style cheesecake. people are very lucky if and when i make one for their birthdays. uses two lbs of cream cheese, 4 eggs, and some cream and flour. you cant really make a bad cheesecake--theyre easy.
otherwise, i think maybe lindy's in NY was where i had my best non-homemade cheesecake.
S&S Cheese Cake 238 St Bronx (a few blocks from Vanny X-Country course) is a wholesale food service company that supplies many of the better NYC restaurants with cheese cake& sells retail from the store at wholesale prices... When I was in the industry this was on the table in every restaurant I ran.
There is a mail order company that ships S&S cakes under their own name-Morie and Dorie-I believe.
Francois Payard has a high class bakery as part of his French restaurant and if you want to spend big bucks they make a French cheesecake that is #$@(*&^ great.Lexington Ave between 73&74Streets.
But the best cheesecake I ever had was created by the pastery chef(and later White House chef) Albert Kumin at Windows on the World 1WTC on 4 July 1976 for the VIP's Grand American Dessert Buffet during OPSAIL'76. Albert chose from about two dozen cheesecakes to get the one that would be used for display.--you had to see the elaborate desserts on the display table to really get the inpact of this simple plain undecorated cake sittng front and center.
Marty Markowitz wrote: Walk to Junior's and get me some cheesecake!
Hey Marty, Junior's is a three minute walk for me, but its legendary cheesecake surely ain't the best these days. Sorry I'm not much of a cheesecake conn-a-sewer and can't reel off the better local options off the top but Junior's - though a great only-in-Brooklyn scene - is no better than a 7 on a scale of 10.
And Marty, for god's sake those road signs when entering or leaving our fair borough are an embarassment even by letsrun standards:
Welcome to Brooklyn: Believe the Hype
Welcome to Brooklyn: Not Just A Borough, An Experience
Welcome: Brooklyn’s in the House!
Leaving Brooklyn: Fugheddaboutit
That's just sad.
Albert and I sat in the kitchen with a bottle of Banyuls and the display cheesecake at about 1AM the next morning....
we left behind some cake but no wine for the opening crew.
A chemist prof friend of mine has a dessert version of the periodic table. The atomic weight is replaced by calorie content. At the end of the table where Uranium would be is strawberry cheesecake. As a child, this was my all time favorite dessert. These days I can't even look at it without my stomach rolling. I just can't take the heaviness of it anymore. It seems every restaurant I go to these days has some sort of triple chocolate cheesecake for dessert. Ugh.
JimFiore wrote:
A chemist prof friend of mine has a dessert version of the periodic table. The atomic weight is replaced by calorie content. At the end of the table where Uranium would be is strawberry cheesecake.
geek!
Small cafe across the street from Los Abrigados in Sedona on my honeymoon. Nothing even close.
Pendejo I'll agree with you about Junior's (I also live in Brooklyn) but I like Marty's signs. As for Cheesecake I like The Cheesecake Factory out in Westbury. Great meals, great varieties of cakes but damn long lines.