Cheesecake Factory Crispy Chicken Costoletta: Price & Calories (2026)
The Cheesecake Factory's Crispy Chicken Costoletta is a $24.95 to $29.95 plate of breaded chicken at 1,800 calories, and the word to take seriously is crispy, because the breading is what puts the numbers where they are. 21 location menus, checked on November 8, 2026, back the price, while the brand's own published guide backs the calories.
The plate: breaded chicken, lemon sauce, and two sides
The official menu describes it in one line: "Chicken Breast Lightly Breaded and Sauteed to a Crisp Golden Brown. Served with Lemon Sauce, Mashed Potatoes and Fresh Asparagus". That is the whole plate. The chicken is a breaded breast, fried crisp, and the lemon sauce is poured over it, not served on the side. The mashed potatoes and fresh asparagus come with it, so there is no side to pick and no lighter build hiding underneath. Online, the most talked-about way to order it is swapping the asparagus for angel hair pasta and asking for extra sauce, but that trades a green vegetable for a second starch on top of the mashed potatoes, so it makes a heavy plate heavier. If you want the dish as the kitchen writes it, order it as listed.
How much is Crispy Chicken Costoletta?
Five dollars separate the cheapest and priciest Costoletta on the 20 menus we checked: $24.95 at the low end, $29.95 at the top, and $27.23 right in the middle. Five stores charge the $24.95 low end, one charges $25.95, four charge $26.95, two charge $27.50, six charge $28.95, and two charge the $29.95 top end, so the range is five dollars wide and most of the country pays between $24.95 and $28.95. The median sits between the two middle store prices, $26.95 and $27.50. $22.95 is what Chesterfield lists, and it is the only menu that low, so it stays out of the range and $24.95 stands as the floor.
| Source | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 official location menus (range) | $24.95–$29.95 |
| 20-menu median | $27.23 |
| Most stores (6 of 20) | $28.95 |
The 500mg number: cholesterol in one plate
One plate carries 500mg of cholesterol, and that is the number to look at before anything else, because the daily reference value is 300mg, so a single plate gives you more than a day and a half of it. The fat tells the same story from the other side: 120g of total fat, 51g of it saturated, and 1,080 of the 1,800 calories come from fat, which is 60 percent of the plate. The sodium is 2,990mg, more than the full 2,400mg daily reference value, and the trans fat is 2.5g. None of this is an accident. A breaded, fried chicken breast with lemon sauce and mashed potatoes is built from fat, and the numbers show the build. If cholesterol is the number you watch, this is not your plate, and the 77g of protein does not balance it out.
How many calories does Crispy Chicken Costoletta have?
A plate has 1,800 calories. The carbohydrates are 104g with 12g of fiber and 9g of sugar, and the protein is 77g, which is the one number in your favor if you are eating for protein. Against the other chicken plates it sits near the top: Chicken Madeira is 1,300, Chicken Bellagio is 2,020, and the Louisiana Chicken Pasta is 2,270, so the Costoletta is heavier than the most popular chicken dish by 500 calories and lighter than Chicken Bellagio by 220. If you want the whole row behind the 1,800, fat, sodium, cholesterol and the rest, it is all on the nutrition page in the costoletta nutrition numbers.
| Measure | Per plate |
|---|---|
| Calories | 1,800 |
| Calories from fat | 1,080 |
| Total fat | 120g |
| Saturated fat | 51g |
| Trans fat | 2.5g |
| Cholesterol | 500mg |
| Sodium | 2,990mg |
| Carbohydrates | 104g |
| Fiber | 12g |
| Sugar | 9g |
| Protein | 77g |
Costoletta or Chicken Madeira: which chicken plate?
Chicken Madeira is the restaurant's most popular chicken dish, and the comparison is the honest way to decide. Madeira costs $25.95 to $29.95, almost the same band as the Costoletta's $24.95 to $29.95, but it carries 1,300 calories against the Costoletta's 1,800, so you pay about the same money and save 500 calories. Madeira is sauteed chicken with mushroom madeira sauce and mashed potatoes, no breading and no frying, which is where the 500 calories go. The Costoletta gives you the crisp crust and the lemon sauce instead. So the choice is not about price, the two plates cost the same, it is about texture: pick Madeira when you want the lighter plate and the sauce, pick Costoletta when you want the crunch and you are fine with the heavier numbers.
No lunch size, no Happy Hour, no gluten-free version
Three things do not exist for this dish, and it is better to say them plainly than to leave you guessing. There is no lunch size: the Costoletta appears on the dinner Specialties menu only, so the 1,800-calorie plate is the only size. There is no Happy Hour price: it does not appear on the Happy Hour menu at any hour. And there is no gluten-free version: it carries no Gluten Free Upon Request marker on any of the 21 menus checked, and the nutrition guide lists no gluten-free preparation for it, which makes sense, because a breaded chicken breast is built on breading. If you need gluten-free, this is not the plate to adapt.
Frequently asked questions about Crispy Chicken Costoletta
Between $24.95 and $29.95, with $27.23 as the middle price across 20 official location menus.
Yes, 1,800 calories a plate, per the official Summer 2026 nutrition guide, with 1,080 of them coming from fat.
A chicken breast lightly breaded and sauteed to a crisp golden brown, served with lemon sauce, mashed potatoes and fresh asparagus.
No. It carries no Gluten Free Upon Request marker on the official menu, and there is no gluten-free preparation for it.
No. It appears on the dinner Specialties menu only, with no lunch version.
No. The Happy Hour menu never lists it, so no Happy Hour price exists for it.
No. At 1,800 calories with 120g of fat, 500mg of cholesterol and 2,990mg of sodium, it is one of the heavier chicken plates on the menu.
Is Crispy Chicken Costoletta worth it?
Yes, if you want crisp breaded chicken with lemon sauce and mashed potatoes and you are fine with 1,800 calories for $24.95 to $29.95. No, if cholesterol or sodium is the reason you are reading: 500mg and 2,990mg rule it out, and Chicken Madeira saves 500 calories at about the same price. That is the whole decision.