Pop into the king of the pop-up restaurants

With no permanent address and no phone number, Ludo Lefebvre’s LudoBites was the West’s first important pop-up restaurant. The mad rush for reservations supposedly crashed OpenTable, and seats for the first “tour” were gone in less than a minute. When news of the next tour surfaces, get ready to pounce for a reservation. In the meantime, stop by LudoTruck, which serves fried chicken so good that people stand in line for hours to get a plateful—or cook up one of these inventive recipes from the L.A. chef sensation:

• Grilled rosemary pork flatbreads with peaches and mascarpone
• Broccamole
• Green bean Caesar salad with baby romaine lettuces
• Korean-style grilled hangar steak with a pickle bar
• Crushed berries with hibiscus jelly