• Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Jonathan Gold has selected a LudoBites dish as one of the “Top Ten Dishes of the Year” in 2007, 2009, 2010.

• Ludo is the only chef in Los Angeles to have received the ultra-prestigious Mobil Travel Guide Five Star Award at two different restaurants, L’Orangerie and Bastide. Relaix and Chateau named him one of the world’s 50 Greatest Chefs and he was nominated for the Rising Chef Award from the James Beard Foundation.

• Ludo is the star of the Sundance Channel hit Ludo Bites America, in which he and his business partner/wife, Krissy Lefebvre, hit the road to reinvent mom and pop American restaurants.

• This original trade paperback will feature French flaps and a hip, irreverent design that reflects the Ludo brand. Full-color photo inserts shot by the bloggers who revere Ludo capture the high-octane energy of the pop-ups.
 
 

Ludo Lefebvre is a culinary prodigy and an iconoclast who has worked in some of the world’s most acclaimed restaurants since he was fourteen. Five years ago he traded fine-dining—with its endless pomp and bottomless resources—for the freedom to cook outside the box. The result was LudoBites, a “touring” restaurant that, like a rock ‘n roll band, roves the streets of Los Angeles, playing to different sold-out crowds every four months.

LudoBites is the chronicle of that journey.  Each chapter showcases the story and the wildly inventive food of the seven different LudoBites incarnations, with recipes that merge the techniques he perfected in his years at the finest French restaurants with the simplicity forced upon him by the limits of a pop-up kitchen.

Essays prefacing each chapter give an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of “the chef of the future” (Time), a culinary genius who breaks all the rules, and beautiful, full-color photos offer behind-the-scenes glimpse of the pain, drama, and triumph inherent in his creative process. As innovative and inviting as the unique chef it captures, LudoBites is a fascinating look at food and a revolutionary new way of cooking.