Le Grand Fooding Crush Paris – Los Angeles The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 N Central Ave Los Angeles, CA 90013 Dining date: 4/26/13 and 4/27/13 This past weekend, Le Grand Fooding made its first foray into Los Angeles. The traveling event, hosted in San Francisco and New York in past instances, seeks to promote…
LudoBites 10 Gram & Papa’s 227 E 9th St Los Angeles, CA 90015 Dining date: 12/10/12 Last week LudoBites returned in its 10th incarnation, dubbed a sort of “Best Of” celebration bringing back many dishes from previous iterations of the pop-up. Adding to the hype, it was also announced that this would be the last…
5×5 Chefs Collaborative Dinner Series Melisse 1104 Wilshire Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90401 Dining date: 4/29/12 The 5×5 dinner series has been around a number of years now, but this is the first (certainly not the last) one that I’ve been to. I don’t know why it took so long. The concept is thus: 5…
LudoBites: Best of Foie Gras Gram & Papa’s 227 E 9th St Los Angeles, CA 90015 Dining date: 4/18/12 If there are two ingredients with which I’ve had the most fond LudoBites memories, it might be foie gras and chicken. I’m not counting on a “Best of Chicken” night anytime soon (but I’d love to…
LudoBites 8.0 Lemon Moon 12200 W Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064 Dining date: 2/15/12 My first trip to LudoBites 8.0 was a pretty good meal, and a very promising start to this iteration. While much attention has been spent on the reservation system and the scarcity of a seat, I didn’t think it was…
LudoBites 8.0 Lemon Moon 12200 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064 Dining date: 1/18/12 With every successive LudoBites, it seems to get more popular. The story is very familiar now: chef with fine dining background starts casual pop-up restaurant; pop-up becomes incredibly successful, garnering critical acclaim nationwide and spawning TV show; demand for reservations…
Un Petit Porc Gram & Papa’s 227 E 9th St Los Angeles, CA 90015 Dining date: 12/19/11 Ludo has been popping up here and there while finalizing details of his LudoBites 8.0 to come in January. Last week I found him cooking paella at DomaineLA; this week I found him making his way across Europe,…
Paella by Ludovic Lefebvre Domaine LA 6801 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038 Dining date: 12/11/11 I’ve been to DomaineLA a few times, a wine shop located in Mid-City/Hollywood. It’s a smallish shop but there’s enough variety to indecisively look at bottles for hours. I’ve found the wines to be both interesting and rather reasonably…