Ludo Lefebre is a Los Angeles-based French chef who has achieved local fame and some national reknown with his LudoBites pop-up restaurants, moppy hair and little-boy tantrums. He competed a season or two ago on Top Chef Masters, and is currently scouting locations to bring his pop-up style to New York City.
Well, premiering on the Sundance channel sometime this summer, date not set, is a show in which Ludo and his wife Krissy travel around America turning small, troubled restaurants into the newest incarnation of LudoBites. It's a good time for him to hit the road since he admits he's "tired of cooking for rich people" and has not yet had plastic surgery.
According to the press release, six shows are already planned or in the can in such popup-needy (cough cough) locales as Mobile, Alabama and Marfa, Texas. Marfa, Texas? Ludo, apparently, is dying to test himself with local cuisine. Armadillo quenelles, anyone?
