Ludobites

After training in France for 13 years at Restaurant L'Esperance with Marc Meneau, then Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire, then Arpege with Alain Passard, and Le Grande Vefour with Guy Martin, Lefebvre moved to Los Angeles to work at L'Orangerie. He was promoted to head chef at the age of 25 and made L'Orangerie one of the top-rated restaurants in California, receiving the Mobil Five Star Award. Lefebvre then moved on to Bastide where he also received the prestigious Mobil Five Star Award. Lefebvre was a nominee for the James Beard Foundation "Rising Chef Award" in 2001 and released his first cookbook, CRAVE, a Feast of the Five Senses in 2005. Always the rebel, Lefebvre has created a guerilla style "pop-up" restaurant event called LudoBites that currently takes place at different locations around Los Angeles. LudoBites has been named to the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, Jonathan Gold's 99 Most Essential Restaurants List for Los Angeles; earning a place in the Top Ten Dishes of 2007, 2009, and 2010 and identified as a dining experience that "may fundamentally change the way we look at restaurants." He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and partner Krissy