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Get acceptable for bison bourguignon and French Denver omelets.
Los Angeles’ premier French cook Ludo Lefebvre volition unfastened his archetypal edifice extracurricular of California and wrong the caller Thompson edifice successful downtown Denver, helium says.
Chez Maggy, named for Lefebvre’s precocious Colorado-based mother-in-law, is slated to debut sometime successful November, on with the boutique edifice (now owned by Hyatt) astatine 16th and Market streets.
“I’m precise excited to bring a small spot of French flair to Denver similar I did successful Los Angeles,” Lefebrvre said. “I ever wanted to bash thing successful Denver, and I’m precise excited to find a spot to bash this.”
Lefebvre archetypal announced tentative plans successful 2018 to grow his tiny edifice radical to Denver, his woman Krissy Lefebvre’s hometown, wherever the mates and their 2 kids walk holidays with family.
In the L.A. area, the cook runs 2 locations of his beloved Petit Trois bistro. Prior to the pandemic helium besides ran — and garnered a Michelin prima for — his tasting menus astatine the higher-end Trois Mec successful Hollywood.
Troic Mec closed past twelvemonth arsenic a effect of losses suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The twelvemonth before, the household suffered a overmuch greater calamity erstwhile Krissy’s step-mother, Margaret Braun, was killed extracurricular of Denver successful a car clang caused by a drunk driver.
“This is to wage homage to her,” Lefebvre said of Margaret and Chez Maggy, adding, “We are precise connected to Denver.”
At the Thompson, Lefebvre volition make nutrient menus for Chez Maggy arsenic good arsenic for the hotel’s bar, its java store and adjacent in-room dining. Guests and visitors tin expect all-day, brasserie-style meals, French barroom snacks and caller pastries.
And portion the cook volition surely marque his versions of classical dishes specified arsenic tartare, bulb crockery and escargot, helium besides doesn’t instrumentality his ain contented excessively seriously. Chez Maggy volition service a “French burger” astir apt akin to its sister restaurants’ “Big Mec” made with treble patties, bordelaise, frites and peculiar sauce.
Also perchance connected the table: “A full paper of steak frites,” Lefebvre said, featuring antithetic cuts of nutrient paired with antithetic sauces.
In his emblematic genial fashion, Lefebvre said he’s up for the caller edifice partnership, which adds a batch of enactment — and surely much information — to an autarkic restaurateur coming retired of the pandemic. He’ll beryllium successful Denver “a lot” for the caller restaurant, and he’s besides moving with Colorado cook Chase Wilbanks, who volition different pb the kitchen.
“I similar it, it’s thing caller for me,” Lefebrve said of the opportunity, adding that Denver and L.A. are not truthful acold off, really, and neither is California-based French cooking.
“French is besides portion of who I am, truthful the edifice is going to beryllium precise Ludo-style.”
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