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Article: DINERS WILL ASK, AIN'T LUX GRAND?(L.A. Life)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2001
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Byline: Larry Lipson Restaurant Critic
Following a very successful couple of years in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, the Calabasas-based Cheesecake Factory has opened its second Grand Lux Cafe in the busy Beverly Center in Los Angeles.
In a glitzy, art-deco-ish, black-and-gold-themed facility sporting about every possible type of marble imaginable, the smart noggins who conceived this step-up-a-notch-or-two restaurant from their hugely profitable Factories serve just as big or bigger portions of tasty food at pretty reasonable prices.
They describe their fare as ``casual global cuisine,'' which covers the international culinary landscape ...