Junior’s, a New York City diner (and institution), has been taunting me for weeks with bakery window displays of larger-than-life lemon meringue pies and vanilla cheesecakes. I live a handful of blocks away from one of its Brooklyn locations, which is located directly across the street from my subway station into Manhattan. This gives me the luxury of seeing these pies twice a day, five days a week—it’s just not fair.

So, I finally gave in, stopped by for dessert this week and found the cheesecake to be awesome! Its texture was perfectly creamy and dense and it tasted very much like Philadelphia cream cheese with a hint of vanilla extract. However, as much as I loved the top of the cheesecake, I would have preferred a graham cracker crust, as opposed to the thin layer of sponge cake for which Junior’s cheesecake is best known. Nevertheless, the sponge cake crust will not prevent me from going back for more!

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