I high-tailed it home after work today to meet up with Ryan to head out on our anniversary dinner date to The Cheesecake Factory.
It’s fun to think that seven years ago on this day we were chatting away on our first date in this exact location!
We sat at a cozy table and enjoyed some of the freshly baked bread while perusing the menu.
I ate three of the slivers of the wheat bread and one of the sourdough slices. Apparently I was hungry!
Ryan placed an order for avocado eggrolls that came out quickly.
I ate two before calling it quits to save room for my chopped veggie salad. 
This salad was BIG and full of yummy veggies, apple slices, beets and edamame. When paired with the pomegranate dressing, it tasted fantastically fresh! Ryan also shared a bit of his steak with me which I also enjoyed.
Then it was time for the best part of the meal! 
Oooh yes. Banana cream cheesecake with extra whipped cream. So, so good. We only left one little banana sliver behind. I dominated the whipped cream and loved every bite I took of the cheesecake.
Now we’re home and will spend the remainder of our dating anniversary cuddled in bed reading Mockingjay. Nothing says love like a book about rebellion and killing people! 
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word has it they’re opening a Cheesecake Factory in my town. My wallet will never be the same.
Awww! Fun! Congrats on 7 years! 🙂 P.S. That cheesecake looks amazing!!!
Happy dating anni! 🙂 Those avocado egg rolls look DIVINE!
I’m not a big fan of the cheescake factory but I just might have to go to get that salad. YUM!
I looks like you guys had a great dinner! Your salad looked great! I might need to try to recreate it at home! Have a good rest of your night!
Oh my gosh I’m craving whipped cream SO BADLY now. The piles of it on that slice are just taunting me. If you ever come to NYC you NEED to try Max Brenner- it’s a chocolate/dessert-only restaurant with portions the size of Cheesecake Factory. Heaven. Glad you had a fun time on your date!!
Congratulations on 7 years! You two are adorable! =)
So fun! Congrats on 7 years!! Here’s to many MANY more! 🙂
The banana cream cheesecake is my FAVORITE!
PS I love your blog layout – especially the spoonful of peanutbutter! it is so adorable! I’m trying to figure out how I want to design my blog, so it is so inspiring to see yours! 🙂
Thanks so much! I just wanted a very clean look.
Congrats on seven years:) I love Cheesecake Factory, there food is awesome!
Actually I think the dark bread at CF is pumpernickel!
I never knew that! I love that it is slightly sweet!
Me too! And I love the avocado egg rolls AND the banana cream pie cheesecake! Basically you ate my favorite meal 🙂
Awwww!!! So cute! 😀 Yay for 7 years!
Congrats on the Anniversary 🙂 my boyfriend and I always revisit the same restaurant we had our first date at on our ‘first date anniversary’ as well.
thought that you would like to know that your blog popularity has spread up to the University of Pennsylvania 🙂 I was bored in class the other day and ventured over to your blog and the person sitting next to me commented on how much she loves your blog too!
hope your’e enjoying the rest of your night!
Oh my gosh that is so cool!! I love PA! That’s where both of my grandmas live. 🙂
Confession.
I have never eatin at the Cheesecake Factory.
I know!! It’s a crime! And I am so deprived… I NEED to hit that place up! Your salad looks so filling and colorful! And ahhh that dessert! You must be so stuffed right now, ha!
Oh and (duh..) CONGRATULATIONS on your 7 year anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it’s cute that you guys are still honoring your dating anniversary. I’ve always felt that it wasn’t fair to not acknowledge the time spent together before marriage. Have you guys always gone to the Cheesecake Factory for your anniversary?
Yep! We’ve gone back every year since our first date!
Cheesecake Factory brown bread- The only reason I even go there in the first place. 😛
you guys look so cute and that cheesecake looks unreal!
Oh my gosh, I am seriously salivating over those avocado egg rolls… Holy yum!
I have a very hard time choosing a dessert at The Cheesecake Factory. Thankfully we don’t have a location anywhere close to us so I’m not tempted too frequently.
Congratulations on 7 great years together!
I love that you celebrate at the same place. Im in to that kind of thing 😉 and that cheesecake, OH MY. Looks amazing!!!
awww fun!! enjoy!
Glad you guys had such a great date! That salad is my fav at Cheesecake Factory 🙂
Looks like a great date night! Happy anniversary!
I make those exact same egg rolls….always a hit at parties. I love The Cheesecake Factory!! Looks like a fabulous date night!
Ha! That’s why we picked them! We saw them on the catering menu and they looked amazing.
Love cheesecake factory! Even though that was not where my husband and I had our first date, we kind of adopted it as our place. We go there for all our dating anniversaries and sometimes valentines day!
Love the coral jacket your wearing. Where’d you find it?
Congrats on 7 fun years! That’s so exciting. I’ve been reading your blog for awhile now, and my favorite posts are the ones that document y’alls daily adventures together! You guys are so cute!
P.S. That cheesecake looks delicious!
Aw thank you! Those are prob my fav to write, too!
Congratulations on 7 years — that is so awesome! I think you and Ryan have an amazing relationship — seems like there is so much genuine love, respect and friendship in your relationship. I appreciate you showing the very real ways you two keep the spark alive! P.S. You look gorgeous, as always! Hope you had a fabulous night!
It’s hard to think that I have yet to go to the Cheesecake Factory since I have been in Chicago, considering there is one fairly close to my apartment. I used to venture to that exact Cheesecake location rather frequently. Love that place!
Congratulations on 7 years! That is amazing. My husband actually took me to the Cheescake Factory after her proposed, so it will always hold a very special place in my heart as well. 🙂
Happy Anniversary to you all! I am so jealous of your dinner! We do not have a Cheesecake Factory within 150 miles :-(!
Happy 7 Years! I love the Cheesecake Factory too, yummy!
Happy Anniversary you guys are just too darn cute! The Cheesecake Factory happens to be one of my boyfriends absolute favorite places and we’ve spent a few anniversaries there! Glad to hear you liked the salad I went to get it once and the waiter told me he’d only ever sold two and both were sent back…so I was afraid to get it=(
Oh my gosh, I went to CF on Sunday and ate almost that exact meal! The veggie salad is soooooo good. We got the cookie dough cheesecake though and your banana cream looks much better.
I think it’s so fun that you and Ryan are reading the Hunger Games books aloud together! Last semester, my roommate and I read Mockingjay together before bed, and it was way more fun than reading the first two books alone. My roommate loved to change around bits of the story (usually making up ridiculous romantic scenes) and see if I could tell the difference 🙂
cute pictures! Glad you two had fun. Now you have me craving the cheesecake factory oh so badly.
Wow, your dinner looks amazing. Happy dating anniversary!
The Hunger Games actually managed to inspire my breakfast, despite all the killings…they kept mentioning goat cheese and it made me craaaave it!
Now THAT’S how whipped cream should always be served! Glad you two had a great anniversary. 🙂
The whipped cream is perhaps my favorite part of the entire Cheesecake Factory. SO freaking good!
Man, I went to Cheesecake factory in San Francisco a couple months ago and ordered the chopped salad. It was awful…kind of soapy or something. I wish I got the yummy version of it you received!
Their avocado rolls are to die for!! And the banana cream cheesecake is my FAVORITE kind-I get it every time!!!!! Happy Anniversary!!
I’m glad you didn’t get sick after this year’s trip to Cheesecake Factory!
I heart the Cheesecake Factory too! Glad you got to go back after 7 years 😉
Happy chinese new year Julie!!! 🙂 You guys should go out to eat again tonight to celebrate 😉
My boyfriend cooked some Filipino food and steak for our first date, followed by some mini golfing. It was so cute <3
Aww, Happy Anniversary! 7 years is an amazing accomplishment, and I love that you are continuing to celebrate your original anniversary even after getting married 🙂
Happy Anniversary! Sounds like you had a good one :)!!
Happy Anniversary ! You are gorgeous ! I just made a blog and would like to add you but I can’t figure it out
happy 7 years! its so nice that you go back to the place of your first date! my first date was in a movie theatre (how cliche) so that wouldn’t be a very romantic evening for every anniversary!!
you two are so cute!! and i LOVE The restaurant so it was great first date choice 😉
Happy Anniversary!!!!!!!
That cheesecake looks AMAZING!