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The Cheesecake Factory brunch menu & times

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Brunch is a weekend-only section at The Cheesecake Factory: 16 dishes served Saturday and Sunday alongside the regular menu. This page lists all of them with published prices and calories, then gives the brunch window each restaurant publishes so you can time the visit.

Quick Answer / TL;DR
  • When is it? Brunch is served exclusively on Saturdays and Sundays. The window varies by location, but commonly runs from opening until 2:00 PM.
  • Can I order regular food? Yes, the entire regular Cheesecake Factory menu is available during brunch hours.
  • Do they have bottomless mimosas? No. Unlike many standalone brunch spots, The Cheesecake Factory does not offer bottomless mimosas or unlimited drinks.
Brunch dishes
16
Restaurants serving
214
Most common window
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Calorie range
680–2370

The Cheesecake Factory Brunch Menu Experience

For many fans, the Cheesecake Factory brunch menu is a weekend ritual. While the restaurant is famous for its encyclopedic dinner menu, the Saturday and Sunday brunch service offers a completely distinct experience. From Giant Belgian Waffles to Bruleed French Toast, the brunch offerings take the brand's signature "more is more" philosophy and apply it to classic morning dishes.

Because brunch is only served on weekends, these items feel exclusive. The menu is a mix of sweet indulgences, savory egg dishes, and hearty breakfast combos that can easily substitute for both breakfast and lunch.

Cheesecake Factory Breakfast vs. Weekend Brunch

A common question from diners is: "Does The Cheesecake Factory serve breakfast every day?" The short answer is no. There is no official weekday Cheesecake Factory breakfast menu. If you arrive when the restaurant opens on a Tuesday, you will be handed the standard lunch and dinner menu.

However, there is a loophole. The standard all-day menu does include a dedicated section for "Eggs & Omelettes," which features dishes like the California Omelette and the Farm Fresh Eggs combo. These are available from open to close, seven days a week. But the true brunch specialtieslike the Fried Chicken & Waffles, Buttermilk Pancakes, and Eggs Benedictare strictly reserved for the weekend brunch window.

Cheesecake Factory Brunch Times & Hours

Timing is everything if you want to catch the brunch menu. The Cheesecake Factory brunch hours generally run from the moment the restaurant opens (usually 10:00 a.m. on weekends) until 2:00 p.m. Exactly when does brunch end? The kitchen typically enforces a hard stop at 2:00 p.m. for brunch items, smoothly transitioning the entire dining room over to the standard afternoon and dinner service.

Keep in mind that 214 out of 214 locations currently publish a brunch window, and times can occasionally vary based on local mall hours or regional regulations. It is always best to check your specific location's page on this site for the exact published window.

Mother's Day and Holiday Brunches

If you are looking for a Mother's Day brunch menu, you should know that The Cheesecake Factory is historically one of the most popular dining destinations in America for this specific holiday. While they do not usually create a separate, limited "holiday-only" menu, the standard Sunday brunch menu is in full effect.

Because of the extreme volume on Mother's Day, Easter Sunday, and Father's Day, reservations are highly recommended. Some locations may adjust their opening hours slightly earlier for these holidays, but the core brunch menufeaturing mimosas, breakfast tacos, and those massive pancake stacksremains the star attraction.

The weekend menu

All 16 brunch dishes

Brunch DishCaloriesPrice
Bacon and Avocado Benedict*
It carries 1,070 mg of sodium, while the classic Eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon on the same brunch menu carries 2,360. So it's the Benedict for a salt-watcher. It's also 170 calories heavier, with 125 grams of fat. Poached eggs, crisp bacon, avocado, tomato and arugula sit on a grilled English muffin under hollandaise made with Calabrian chillies. Those come from the toe of Italy and add a fruity heat. Fish is on the allergen list. Hollandaise doesn't explain it, so ask.
1520 cal$20.73
Breakfast Burrito
At 4,580 mg of sodium, 2,080 calories and 88 grams of protein, it tops the 16 brunch dishes on salt and protein. Scrambled eggs, bacon, chicken chorizo, cheese, avocado, peppers and onions go into one warm tortilla over spicy ranchero sauce, with sour cream, salsa, crispy corn tortilla and black beans alongside. Mexican chorizo is a fresh sausage, traditionally pork, seasoned hard with chilli and vinegar. This one is made with chicken. 20 grams of fiber, fifth on the menu. Split it. One person eating this is eating two meals.
2080 cal$20.23
Bruléed French Toast
Only the Factory Nachos, a platter meant for a table, carry more fat on the entire menu than this plate's 161 grams. Brûlée is French for burnt, the same word as in crème brûlée, and here it means a crust of caramelised sugar over thick slices of custard-soaked bread, with powdered sugar and maple-butter syrup. It's vegetarian. 83 grams of that fat is saturated, again second only to the nachos. 2,120 calories, which ties it with the Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken. I'd order it for the table as dessert at brunch and cut it four ways. Weekends only.
2120 cal$18.45
Brunch Combo*
Two eggs, bacon and buttermilk pancakes on one plate. 1,110 calories. The Buttermilk Pancakes on their own come to 1,670 calories and 3,650 mg of sodium, so taking fewer pancakes with eggs and bacon beside them saves 560 calories and 2,640 mg of salt. 26 grams of protein. 50 grams of sugar. It's the brunch plate I'd send a first-timer to.
1110 cal$16.95
Buttermilk Pancakes
The plainest pancakes on the brunch menu are the saltiest. 3,650 mg of sodium, more than the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes and the Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes. Buttermilk's acidity reacts with baking soda to lift the batter, and baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, so a batter built on it brings its own sodium before any salt goes in. At $11.50 they're also the cheapest of the three. 214 grams of carbohydrate. Vegetarian.
1670 cal$13.00
Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
2,370 calories. Only the Factory Nachos beat it, and this arrives at breakfast. The sodium surprised me more: 3,510 mg, over a day and a half, in a dish that tastes sweet. Pancake batter carries more of it than you'd expect. Baking soda and baking powder are both sodium compounds. It's a good dish that delivers what the name promises, with cinnamon-brown sugar swirled through the batter and cream cheese icing on top. Split it. Between two people it's a rich, sensible brunch, and alone it's more food than the Grilled Rib-Eye. Vegetarian, with gluten, wheat, milk and egg listed.
2370 cal$16.50
Eggs Benedict* with Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise
Pork appears as an allergen here, one of only two brunch dishes where the menu flags it, and Canadian bacon is the reason, since it's cured pork loin rather than belly. Poached eggs and Canadian bacon sit on an English muffin under hollandaise. 50 grams of carbohydrate, the fewest of the 16 brunch dishes. 48 grams of protein. 2,360 mg of sodium, more than double the Bacon and Avocado Benedict. 1,350 calories.
1350 cal$19.73
Fried Chicken & Waffles
Harlem's Wells Supper Club is usually credited with pairing fried chicken and waffles in the 1930s, feeding musicians who came off stage too late for dinner and too early for breakfast. Here it's the giant Belgian waffle topped with crunchy fried chicken. 1,190 calories. The plain Giant Belgian Waffle is 690, so the chicken adds 500 calories and 38 grams of protein. It's lighter than the Benedict version by 480 calories. I'd order this one and skip the hollandaise.
1190 cal$19.73
Fried Chicken & Waffles Benedict*
Putting fried chicken strips and hollandaise on a Belgian waffle gets you 128 grams of fat, level with the Fettuccini Alfredo and the Jambalaya Hash & Eggs. Poached eggs and hollandaise go over the chicken, with maple-butter syrup alongside. So you're pouring syrup onto hollandaise. Sweet against rich is the whole idea. It's 480 calories heavier than the plain Fried Chicken & Waffles. Fish is listed, as on the Bacon and Avocado Benedict.
1670 cal$21.00
Giant Belgian Waffle
Belgian waffles came to American attention at the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Maurice Vermersch sold them topped with strawberries and whipped cream as Bel-Gem waffles, and the name stuck to any thick, deep-pocketed waffle. This plain one is 690 calories. 6 grams of protein, the least of the 16 brunch dishes. It's also the lowest in sodium at 680 mg. Order it for a child or share it as a sweet course. $10.95.
690 cal$12.45
Giant Belgian Waffle with Strawberries, Pecans and Chantilly Cream
The toppings add 260 calories and $3 to the plain waffle. Pecans add tree nuts. Chantilly cream is sweetened whipped cream, named for the Château de Chantilly north of Paris, and together with strawberries and pecans it turns the plain waffle into something close to the 1964 World's Fair version, which is how Belgian waffles were first sold in America. 950 calories. 76 grams of sugar. Vegetarian.
950 cal$15.72
Green Chilaquiles with Carnitas and Eggs*
Chilaquiles started as a way to use up stale tortillas. Mexican cooks fry the pieces, then simmer them in salsa until they soften at the edges but keep some crunch. This version uses tomatillo-chile sauce with slow-cooked pork, roasted poblano peppers, cheese, onions and cilantro, finished with eggs, tomato and sour cream. Chicken is an option, at 1,620 calories against 1,650 for the carnitas. The Cheesecake Factory has published the recipe on its website. 85 grams of protein, second at brunch only to the Breakfast Burrito.
1650 cal$19.45
Jambalaya Hash & Eggs*
Of the 16 weekend brunch dishes, this is the only one without gluten or wheat on its allergen list, which stops at milk, eggs and fish. Jambalaya splits into two Louisiana styles: Creole, cooked with tomatoes, and Cajun, cooked without. This hash crosses them. Tomatoes go in with the peppers, onion and potatoes, but the sausage is Cajun andouille, and the whole thing sits over white rice under fried eggs. 128 grams of fat and 1,750 calories, among the ten fattiest dishes on the menu. That's a lot for a breakfast. Split it.
1750 cal$20.73
Kids’ Brunch
Pork is in the allergen list. It's the bacon, and nothing in the name tells you — for families avoiding pork on religious or dietary grounds that's the detail worth catching before the plate arrives. Otherwise this is one of the better-built children's plates on the weekend menu. 680 calories, which is under a third of what the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes will do to an adult, with 22 grams of protein from the egg and bacon. The choice between mini French toast and buttermilk pancakes barely moves the numbers. Pick whichever they'll actually eat. Gluten, wheat, milk and egg are all listed too. If pork's the issue, the standard kids' menu has plenty that isn't built around it.
680 cal$9.95
Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes
Berries and lemon make this plate look like the light brunch order. It isn't. 2,110 calories, and 258 grams of carbohydrate, the second-highest figure on the entire menu, behind only the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes. Ricotta pancakes became a café fixture after Bill Granger put ricotta hotcakes on the menu at his Sydney restaurant in 1993, and folding the cheese into buttermilk batter with lemon zest keeps the middle soft and damp under the lemon glaze. 138 grams of sugar. Share the stack, and eat the strawberries and blueberries first. Saturdays and Sundays only.
2110 cal$17.45
Monte Cristo Sandwich
1,960 calories, which makes this brunch sandwich the eleventh-heaviest dish on the entire menu. It's a ham and cheese sandwich dipped in custard and fried as French toast, a descendant of the French croque-monsieur. Bacon and scrambled egg go in too. Powdered sugar and strawberry preserves come on the side. 121 grams of fat and 74 grams of protein. Split it, because sweet and salty at that weight stops being enjoyable about halfway through.
1960 cal$19.73

Prices are the published list values as of 18 August 2026 and vary by market. Confirm at the restaurant before ordering.

Where and when

Brunch windows at 214 restaurants

Each window below is the brunch time that restaurant publishes. Where a restaurant publishes no window, it is omitted rather than shown with an assumed time.

Alabama

2 restaurants

Arizona

6 restaurants

California

38 restaurants

Colorado

4 restaurants

Connecticut

3 restaurants

Delaware

1 restaurant

District of Columbia

1 restaurant

Florida

24 restaurants

Georgia

5 restaurants

Hawaii

2 restaurants

Idaho

1 restaurant
  • Boise10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Illinois

7 restaurants

Indiana

2 restaurants

Iowa

1 restaurant

Kansas

1 restaurant

Kentucky

2 restaurants

Louisiana

1 restaurant

Maryland

5 restaurants

Massachusetts

7 restaurants

Michigan

2 restaurants

Minnesota

2 restaurants

Missouri

2 restaurants

Nebraska

1 restaurant
  • Omaha10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Nevada

5 restaurants

New Jersey

10 restaurants

New Mexico

1 restaurant

New York

12 restaurants

North Carolina

5 restaurants

Ohio

7 restaurants

Oklahoma

2 restaurants

Oregon

2 restaurants

Pennsylvania

6 restaurants

Rhode Island

1 restaurant

South Carolina

1 restaurant

Tennessee

5 restaurants

Texas

20 restaurants

Utah

3 restaurants

Virginia

7 restaurants

Washington

4 restaurants

Wisconsin

3 restaurants

What to expect at brunch

The brunch section runs alongside the full menu rather than replacing it, so a table can order brunch dishes and regular lunch items at the same time. That matters if half your party wants eggs and the other half wants pasta.

Portions follow the same pattern as the rest of the menu generous, and often shareable. Published calories on the brunch section span 680 to 2370, so the range within one menu section is wide. The lighter end sits with the egg dishes and fruit sides; the heavy end is the sweet, griddled plates.

Weekend brunch is a peak service. If you are going with a group, treat a reservation as the default rather than the exception.

FAQ

Brunch questions

What time is brunch at The Cheesecake Factory?
212 of the 214 restaurants that publish a brunch window run it 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Exactly when does brunch end? The kitchen typically enforces a hard stop at 2:00 p.m. for brunch items, so arrive before then. Windows do vary by restaurant, so check the location page before you go.
Does The Cheesecake Factory serve breakfast every day?
No, there is no official weekday breakfast menu. However, the standard all-day menu includes an 'Eggs & Omelettes' section (like the California Omelette) available seven days a week from open to close.
Which days is brunch served?
The full brunch menu is strictly a Saturday and Sunday service. Weekday visits use the standard lunch and dinner menu, which includes some egg dishes but not the weekend-exclusive items like Giant Belgian Waffles or Fried Chicken & Waffles.
How many dishes are on the brunch menu?
The published Saturday–Sunday brunch section carries 16 dishes, 16 of them with a listed price. Every one is listed on this page with calories where the restaurant publishes them.
Do all locations serve brunch?
214 of the 214 restaurants in this directory publish a brunch window. Where a restaurant publishes none, this site leaves the field blank rather than assuming the standard hours apply.
Can I book a table for brunch?
Yes, most restaurants accept reservations. Weekend brunchespecially on Mother's Day or Easter Sundayis one of the busier services, so booking ahead is highly recommended.
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