Dishes /

Dish

Cheesecake

Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.

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On confirmed menus

Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.

Based on 3 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.

Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.

What it is

From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.

On old menus

From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).

Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:

Upstate historical menus listing it, by decade: 1900s (1 menu), 1950s (1 menu).

In the New York Public Library menu collection overall, it first shows up in the 1900s and appears through the 1990s.

Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.

Related dishes

Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.

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