Cheesecake Factory Evelyn's Favorite Pasta: Price & Calories (2026)
Evelyn Overton's homemade cheesecakes launched The Cheesecake Factory, and Cheesecake Factory Evelyn's Favorite Pasta, named after the founder's mother, costs $21.95 to $26.50 at dinner with 1,270 calories, or 940 at lunch. It is the lightest pasta in this series and the most vegetable-forward plate in it, and it is the first post where the gluten-free marker is real. The official description lists what is actually in it: broccoli, zucchini, asparagus, peppers, tomato, onion, garlic and fresh herbs, tossed with Parmesan. November 5, 2026 is when 21 location menus were checked for the range below, and the 50-store dataset matched it; the calories are the brand's published numbers.
Who was Evelyn, and why is her pasta on the menu?
Evelyn Overton was the mother of founder David Overton, and her baking is where the business began. The official menu tells the story itself: in the early 1950s, while raising her two young children, David and Renee, Evelyn turned their basement into a professional bakery, and in 1972 the family opened a small bakery in Los Angeles under the name The Cheesecake Factory. The first restaurant followed in Beverly Hills in 1978. No other dish in this series carries a namesake, and no other opening on this site can start with the woman whose cheesecakes built the chain. The pasta that bears her name is the vegetable plate of the menu, and it reads like her cooking: simple ingredients, nothing hidden, and a name that means something to the family that built the restaurant.
Lunch is 330 calories lighter, but the price is not on the menu
The dinner portion has 1,270 calories and the lunch-sized portion has 940, a gap of 330 calories, and lunch is served until 5:00 PM. What the lunch portion does not have is its own price: no per-item lunch price for Evelyn's has been verified anywhere. The feeds carry lunch only as a section price, and the pasta section note about lunch-sized portions is a range covering nine lunch pastas, not this dish's price, so neither range appears here as Evelyn's lunch price. The full lunch row from the guide: 940 calories, 440 calories from fat, 49g total fat, 15g saturated fat, 1g trans fat, 40mg cholesterol, 1,920mg sodium, 102g carbohydrates, 8g fiber, 7g sugar, 24g protein.
| Portion | Calories | Fat cal | Total fat | Protein | Sodium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinner | 1,270 | 670 | 75g | 29g | 2,520mg |
| Lunch-sized | 940 | 440 | 49g | 24g | 1,920mg |
Broccoli to Parmesan: what the menu lists
The official description is a list of vegetables, not a sauce and not a shape: broccoli, zucchini, asparagus, peppers, tomato, onion, garlic and fresh herbs, tossed with Parmesan. That is all of it, word for word, on every one of the 21 menus checked. No pasta shape is named anywhere official, and no cream sauce is named either, so this page names neither. The bow-tie pasta in a light cream sauce wording on our own cards is not the official plate, and neither is the rigatoni or penne with roasted eggplant, artichoke, kalamata olives and toasted pine nuts that copycat recipes describe. Read the plate by the menu's own list and the order you expect is the order you get: vegetables and Parmesan, with the pasta carrying them rather than defining them.
How much does Evelyn's Favorite Pasta cost?
Twelve of the 21 menus charge $23.50, so the $21.95 to $26.50 spread is wider than the median suggests and $23.50 is the price most of the country sees. Twelve of the 21 sampled stores charge exactly $23.50, so most locations sit on the median, and only Chesterfield lists the low end at $21.95. The 50-store dataset agrees, with the same $23.50 to $26.50 range and the same $23.50 median, so the dinner price is one of the best-verified figures on this site.
| Source | Price |
|---|---|
| 21 official location menus, dinner (range) | $21.95–$26.50 |
| 21-menu median | $23.50 |
| Most stores (12 of 21) | $23.50 |
| 50-store dataset (range) | $23.50–$26.50 |
Gluten-free on request: what the marker means
Evelyn's is the first dish in this series where the gluten-free marker is real. The item carries the Gluten Free Upon Request marker on all 21 sampled menus, and it is one of only four pastas on the menu that carry it. The guide backs the marker with dedicated gluten-free preparation rows: 1,150 calories for dinner and 830 for lunch, against the standard 1,270 and 940. Those rows are the same dish made with gluten-free pasta, not a contradiction and not a different plate. The swap costs protein and sodium: dinner protein falls from 29g to 14g and sodium from 2,520mg to 1,880mg, and lunch protein falls from 24g to 11g and sodium from 1,920mg to 1,330mg. Gluten-free here means made with gluten-free pasta, and the menu's footnote is blunt that the kitchens are not allergen-free or gluten-free environments, so the server is the check. For the numbers behind every pasta, see the pasta nutrition numbers listed the same way.
| Preparation | Calories | Protein | Sodium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinner, standard | 1,270 | 29g | 2,520mg |
| Dinner, gluten-free | 1,150 | 14g | 1,880mg |
| Lunch, standard | 940 | 24g | 1,920mg |
| Lunch, gluten-free | 830 | 11g | 1,330mg |
Evelyn's or Da Vinci: which pasta?
Evelyn's is the lightest pasta in this series at 1,270 calories for dinner, against Da Vinci at 1,540 and Louisiana Chicken Pasta at 2,270, and it carries the highest fiber of the three pasta posts at 11g. It is also the only one of the three built on vegetables rather than chicken and a sauce: Da Vinci is the Madeira-sauce pasta, Louisiana is the chicken pasta, and Evelyn's is the vegetable plate with Parmesan. Pick Evelyn's when you want the lightest pasta and the most vegetables on the plate. Pick Da Vinci when you want the Madeira sauce and the richer plate. Read the Da Vinci plate side by side with this one and the choice makes itself.
Is Evelyn's Favorite Pasta vegetarian?
The official description lists no meat, so the dish is meat-free as described, but no official vegetarian label was found on the menu, and the feeds carry no vegetarian marker system, so this page does not present it as an officially-labelled vegetarian dish. Our own pasta page calls it vegetarian-friendly, and that is our page's wording, not an official label. Milk is in play through the Parmesan, and wheat is in play through the standard pasta, which is exactly what the gluten-free preparation swaps out. A vegan version with modifications has not been verified from official sources, so none is promised here; confirm any change with your server.
Frequently asked questions about Evelyn's Favorite Pasta
Dinner is $21.95 to $26.50, and $23.50 is the number twelve of the 21 menus charge, so that is the median and the most common price.
The dinner portion has 1,270 calories and the lunch-sized portion has 940 calories, according to the official Summer 2026 nutrition guide.
No per-item lunch price has been verified. The lunch-sized portion has 940 calories, and lunch is served until 5:00 PM.
It is marked Gluten Free Upon Request on the official menu, and the guide carries gluten-free rows at 1,150 calories for dinner and 830 for lunch. Since the kitchens are not gluten-free environments, your server is the one to confirm with.
The official description lists no meat, so the dish is meat-free as described, but no official vegetarian label was found on the menu.
Evelyn Overton was the mother of founder David Overton. Her homemade cheesecakes launched the business, which began as a bakery before the first restaurant opened in Beverly Hills in 1978.
Evelyn's is the vegetable pasta at 1,270 calories for dinner, while Da Vinci is the Madeira-sauce pasta at 1,540 calories. Evelyn's is the lightest of the three pasta posts, with Louisiana Chicken Pasta at 2,270 calories.
Should Evelyn's be your pasta order?
The lightest pasta on the menu wins by what it leaves out: no chicken, no cream sauce, the most vegetables on the plate, 940 calories at lunch with the gluten-free preparation marked for real. It is the pasta to order when light and green is the meal, not when rich is. Da Vinci is the richer pasta when rich is what you want, and Louisiana runs heavier still, so the lightest and the heaviest are not close, and this one is the lightest by a distance.