bring-your-own-bottle event, guerrilla restaurant,itinerant

They had driven down from Brentwood, from Silver Lake and the Hollywood Hills to park on East Ninth Street near one of the only lighted storefronts for blocks. They walked from their vehicles with wine and greeted one another at the entrance with nods and smiles of recognition. They were members of the same audience, patrons of the same art.

A bring-your-own-bottle event called LudoBites 5.0 had brought them here, a guerrilla restaurant run by the itinerant Burgundy-born chef Ludovic Lefebvre and his wife, Kristine Lefebvre. It opened on July 21 and runs through Sept. 3.