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Grand Lux Café (Beverly Center)
  Here the day after Christmas day is the on-sale shopping and returning-items day. Some retail chains even opened at 5am for desperate bargain-shoppers. The dress I got mom is wrong size so we have to beat the crowd at the mall for exchange. We ate at the restaurant Grand Lux Café which looked glitter, golden and shiny like a grand Las Vegas casino (in fact there IS one at Venetian Hotel). But the food is not 'Grand" nor "luxury' at all. It's just typical California 'fusion' menu with 'everything' (from Continental breakfast to Filet Mignon, Pizza, Vietnamese roll, Mongolian steak...etc. and all extremely overpriced). It's owned by the same creator who opened the ultra lame Cheesecake Factory. So it's supposedly a more upscale sister restaurant to Cheesecake Factory. If CF were 'The Gap', then GLC would be their 'Banana Republic'. ^^;;
  Since it is located in the mall so of course there're mall-crowd friendly Lunch specials. I got the $10 Pasta+Salad specials. Pasta Fresca corkscrew pasta dried tomato, olives, brocalli, asparagus with garlic butter sauce. OH my this is unbelievably delicious~~~ The salad too! *O*
 Omlette Special $8 Bacon, Spinach, cheese...Normal...
 New Orleans Beignets $7 The waiter hardsell their "30-minutes-to-prepared-desserts-menu' to every table so we tried one. It's basically fried donuts with raspberry, chocolate and custard dippings. But it's very good! The donut doughs are soooooo incredibly light and soft. YUMMY!
Freda | December 27, 2004 10:49 PM
Ha did that sound like bashing?! ^^;;
Joan | December 30, 2004 02:52 AM
So funny that you first bashed the whole existence of the place and then suddenly complimented its food...^^;;;; The donuts look good!
seat | December 30, 2004 12:09 AM
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