If you were one of the few fortunate enough to get a reservation for Ludo Bites 007 in Los Angeles you don’t need us to tell you it was an amazing and innovative meal. Since reservations only took minutes to fill up we know a lot of you missed out so we at The Swag Mag wanted to share with you our experience (truth be told we also failed to get our seats but a good friend couldn’t make the time and we happily took his place).
To start, if you don’t already know, Ludo Bites is the creative effort of Chef Ludovic Lefebvre and his team who take over another restaurant, this year it was Gram and Papas which in itself is a great spot, for a period of time to wow us with a wonderful and new restaurant experience.
After looking over the menu the table was hard pressed to decide what to get. After a short debate, instead of picking items we were only able to eliminate one dish we could do without, the fried chicken wings. These were a sacrifice as we figured it would be similar to the Ludotruck, which if you haven’t tracked down yet you need to get on it. Anyways, as each dish came we each, there were four of us, grabbed at least one fork full of each dish. Although the dishes were small this really is the only way to go for a dining experience like this, because you just have to try it all.
The table favorites were by far the Egg, sea urchin, caviar, champagne beurre blanc and the duck with cherry, spicy saucisse, beets and radish. Every morsel was perfectly cook and seasoned. Even though each plate had many components they all worked together beautifully with a high level of conceptual development which makes it hard to believe the menu changed everyday for the duration of the pop up. It was also encouraging to see the man himself in the kitchen cooking and laughing the entire time since we know a lot of those other executive chefs don’t spend a whole lot of time in their own kitchens. We ended our meal with a little Smoked vanilla bacon creme brulee with red berry and really you can’t go wrong with bacon for dessert.
Our only wish is that the chef would just settle down a bit and open up his own restaurant so we could more easily enjoy his food but we know Chef Ludo is doing what he does best and will go whereever he pleases in order to push his food further and we can’t hate that.
