On the third night of Ludo Bites, the restaurant ran out of food. And I don’t mean it sold out of a dish or two, or that it closed a bit early — it ran out of pretty much everything, so that when we dropped by (with reservations) after the end of the Lakers game, almost nothing on the $39 prix-fixe menu was actually available, and I’m sure that at least some of what we ended up eating was supposed to go to the staff meal or on sandwiches the next day. You’ve got to give it to Ludovic Lefebvre, the Pierre Gagnaire protégé, once the chef at l’Orangerie and Bastide, who has returned from Las Vegas to run Ludo Bites for a limited three-month stretch at Breadbar. He still managed to scrounge up one of the best meals I’ve had... More >>>