<P> David Overton designed the Grand Lux Cafe, an upscale restaurant for The Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas . The restaurant is modeled after Italian, French, and Austrian styles . The Cafe offers, in addition to American and European - style food, Thai, Malaysian, Caribbean cuisine, and others . The Cheesecake Factory operates fourteen Grand Lux Cafe restaurants located in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas . </P> <P> Each Grand Lux Cafe features an on - site bakery which produces a selection of signature bake - to - order desserts (takes up to 30min .), and a full - service craft bar . </P> <P> Most of the restaurants feature sumptuous fabrics and textures and polished marble floors and table tops . Hand - blown glass fixtures and intricate mosaics . The four most recent Grand Lux Cafe restaurants have moved in a new design direction, incorporating inlaid leather seating, warm wood paneling, colorful drum lamp shades and roaring fireplaces to create a cleaner modern look . </P> <P> RockSugar Southeast Asian Kitchen is a contemporary Asian - fusion restaurant which opened on June 19, 2008, at Century City in Los Angeles . David Overton excluded Chinese and Japanese cuisines from the menu, as these are served at the Grand Lux and Cheesecake Factory restaurants . A second location opened in Oakbrook, IL in November 2017 . </P>

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