Cheesecake Factory Cobb Salad: Price & Calories (2026)
A salad that eats like an entree is the honest way to describe Cheesecake Factory Cobb Salad: $19.95 to $23.50, 1,480 calories at dinner, 1,040 at lunch. Read that number twice, because it is the whole story of this dish: a salad that eats like an entree. The greens are the smallest part of what you are paying for. Chicken, avocado, blue cheese, bacon, egg and vinaigrette do the real work, and together they land heavier than plenty of pasta and chicken plates on the same menu. The dinner range is fifty location menus' worth of prices, and the calories are the brand's published numbers.
What is in Cobb Salad?
Chicken Breast, Avocado, Blue Cheese, Bacon, Tomato, Egg and Mixed Greens Tossed in Our Vinaigrette. That is the current official description, and it reads like a parts list because that is exactly how this salad is built. Nothing is hidden in a sauce or a crust. You can see every ingredient, and every ingredient has a job to do: the chicken gives it the protein, the avocado gives it the richness, the blue cheese gives it the sharp edge, the bacon gives it the salt and smoke, the egg gives it the body, and the vinaigrette ties it together. Our salads guide lists it the same way, and it is the first salad to get its own post here precisely because it breaks the usual salad assumption: ordering a salad does not automatically mean ordering light.
How much does Cobb Salad cost?
The dinner salad is $19.95 to $23.50, and the $21.95 median comes from 50 official location menus. Fresh official menus land all through that range: $19.95 at Atlanta, Philadelphia and Kansas City, $21.50 at Maryland Live, $21.95 at Orlando, and $23.50 at Tacoma, Los Cerritos, Las Vegas, Anaheim and Bellevue. Before you order, look at the promo codes running this week too, since one of them can change what the meal actually costs.
| Source | Price |
|---|---|
| 50 official location menus, dinner (range) | $19.95–$23.50 |
| 50-store median, dinner | $21.95 |
| Lunch selection (section price, not Cobb-specific) | $17.95–$18.50 typical |
Where do 1,480 calories come from in a salad?
From everything except the greens. Dinner is 1,480 calories with 124g of fat, 365mg of cholesterol and 2,460mg of sodium, and 66g of protein holding it together as a meal. The bacon brings salt and fat, the blue cheese brings more fat and a lot of the sodium, the egg adds richness, the avocado adds the good kind of fat that still counts, and the vinaigrette coats all of it. None of that is a surprise once you look at the ingredient list, but it surprises people who order by the word "salad" alone. The lunch portion tells the same story in a smaller size: 1,040 calories, 88g of fat, 265mg of cholesterol, 1,420mg of sodium and 44g of protein. If you want the Cobb experience with a lighter bill, the lunch portion is the honest move, not skipping the bacon and hoping the rest stays the same. Compare before you order: every salad nutrition numbers are listed the same way.
Dinner or lunch: how much salad do you actually want?
Dinner is the full plate at 1,480 calories, and lunch is the smaller portion at 1,040 calories, a gap of 440 calories for the same dish. Lunch-sized salads are part of the lunch selection, priced as a section rather than per dish, which is why this page publishes no Cobb-specific lunch price: the sampled section prices run $17.95 to $18.50, and your restaurant's lunch selection price is the number that applies. Choose dinner when the Cobb is your whole meal and you want the full build. Choose lunch when you want the same flavors and are fine with less of them, or when you are pairing it with something else. Either way you are getting a substantial salad: even the lunch portion carries 44g of protein, which is more than some entrees manage.
Cobb Salad vs Vegan Cobb Salad: same name, different dish
Do not order one expecting the other, because apart from the name and the greens they share almost nothing. Cobb Salad has chicken, bacon, egg and blue cheese, at 1,480 calories for dinner. Vegan Cobb Salad has no animal products at all: crisp lettuce, grilled asparagus, avocado, roasted beets, green beans, tomato, cucumber, carrot, white beans, quinoa, farro, almonds and toasted pepitas with house vinaigrette, at 1,060 calories for dinner and 830 at lunch, priced at $18.95. The trap runs both ways. A vegan diner who orders "Cobb" without the word vegan gets chicken, bacon, egg and cheese. A gluten-free diner who assumes the vegan version is the safe one gets farro, which is wheat, so Vegan Cobb is not gluten-free. Say the full name when you order, and check which one is in front of you before the first bite.
Is Cobb Salad gluten-free?
Gluten free upon request, per the official menus, which mark Cobb Salad with the gluten-free-upon-request symbol. That answer comes with two honest footnotes. First, the gluten-free preparation is listed separately in the nutrition guide, and it runs higher than the main menu version, not lower. Second, the restaurants are not allergen or gluten free environments, items may be prepared using shared equipment, and even a specially ordered item cannot be guaranteed free of any allergen, so tell your server if this is an allergy rather than a preference.
| Preparation | Dinner | Lunch |
|---|---|---|
| Main menu | 1,480 cal | 1,040 cal |
| Gluten-free menu | 1,650 cal | 1,160 cal |
Do not read the 1,650 figure as a correction to the 1,480 figure. They are two rows for two preparations in the same guide, and this page headlines the main menu numbers. If you order from the gluten-free menu, the 1,650 and 1,160 numbers are the ones that apply to your plate.
Cobb Salad: the short answers
At dinner it is $19.95 to $23.50, with $21.95 as the median across 50 official location menus.
The dinner salad is 1,480 calories; order the lunch-sized one and it is 1,040, which is 440 fewer for the same ingredients in a smaller bowl.
Chicken breast, avocado, blue cheese, bacon, tomato, egg and mixed greens tossed in vinaigrette. That is the current official description.
They are different dishes that share a name. Cobb Salad has chicken, bacon, egg and blue cheese, at 1,480 calories. Vegan Cobb Salad has no animal products at all, built on quinoa, farro, roasted beets and grilled asparagus, at 1,060 calories.
Gluten free upon request, per the official menus. The gluten-free preparation is listed at 1,650 calories for dinner and 1,160 for lunch, so confirm with your server and note the kitchen is shared.
Yes, in a lunch-sized portion at 1,040 calories. Lunch pricing is set for the whole lunch selection, not per dish, so no Cobb-specific lunch price is published here.
Not as a light option. At 1,480 calories and 2,460mg sodium for dinner, it eats like an entree. The lunch portion at 1,040 calories is the lighter route.
Should you order Cobb Salad?
Green does not mean light here: 1,480 calories, bacon, blue cheese and avocado all visible and doing their own job, a salad that eats like a full meal. That is the point of it, and the reason to order it. If light is what you came in for, the chopped salad is 780 calories and the one to look at instead, and if gluten-free is a must, confirm the preparation with the kitchen first, because the page cannot confirm it for you.