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If you’re trying to satisfy your crisis carb cravings with overcooked Trader Joe’s spaghetti and jarred tomato sauce, Evan Funke is here to save you. ‪The Felix chef and pasta maestro is offering “pasta fresca kits for 2” for takeout or delivery via

ChowNow from his Venice restaurant. Kits come with the sauce, fresh noodles, cheese, and instructions to assemble dishes like rigatoni arrabiata and casarecce with pesto Genovese at home. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FELIX / FELIX ALL DAY

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only. Dialogue: 1315 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, dialoguerestaurant.com; Pasjoli: 2732 Main St., Santa Monica, (424) 330-0020, pasjoli.com Felix Focaccia and pizzas from Evan Funke’s Venice trattoria reheat beautifully, and a lemony chicory

salad jolts the palate out of hibernation. Pasta, though, is the center of Funke’s universe; he recently published a book on mastering it at home. Rather than preparing hot pasta to-go at Felix, the restaurant sells kits of freshly extruded rigatoni

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came most sharply into focus when he opened his hit Venice trattoria Felix: He installed a glass chamber where pastas are rolled in the center of the dining room. Advertisement Mother Wolf is a different animal altogether. Celebrities, most of them not

con cicoria from Mother Wolf. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Advertisement The solid framework of his Roman menu will help; it’s a regional focus he’s previously workshopped. At Felix, Funke surveys the breadth of Italy, serving tagliatelle al

Hollywood restaurant Mother Wolf. His Venice restaurant Felix is one of Brie and husband Dave Franco’s favorites in the city. And for Brie, it wouldn’t be a proper pasta crawl without Funke’s handmade pasta. “I just think he makes the best pasta in the

United States,” she says. During quarantine, she and Franco frequented Felix for Funke's at-home dinner kits. She says the chef would text specific instructions on how to cook the pasta. “It was so informative reading this paragraph from the chef to say

You have managed to land a reservation at Felix Trattoria. You find a parking space on the crowded north end of Abbot Kinney. You ease your way through the clot of Negroni enthusiasts at the bar, check in at the hostess stand, and are led into the

of pasta — unyielding, a bit stiff, stubbornly made by hand — has been quite influential in local Italian kitchens, including some of the best ones. A temperature-controlled room inside Felix Trattoria in Venice is where the restaurant’s pasta is

pepe from Felix Trattoria in Venice. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Before he left on his cacio e pepe quest, Funke tried to put a tonnarelli cacio e pepe on the menu at Rustic Canyon, where he became chef in 2008. “I’m not saying it didn’t exist

Funke opened Bucato in Culver City in 2013, he served cacio e pepe, and he brought it to his Venice restaurant Felix in 2017. “I tell people today that this is a dish that I have singularly built my career on,” he said. “I think we’ve served, I don’t

, 5955 Melrose Ave., Hancock Park. Sfincione Felix Trattoria It’s a Sicilian focaccia that is so unbelievably airy and light. Each bite you take evaporates like a cloud, and you get the perfect balance of yeastiness against the fruity olive oil and flaky

Evan Funke, the chef behind Felix Italian restaurant in Venice, will open Fingers Crossed pizzeria in Hollywood on Saturday. The restaurant is located in an outdoor space adjacent to the Dream Hollywood hotel. Funke will run the restaurant with

Relevant Hospitality, the company behind the hotel, for a residency of at least six months. While the focus at Felix is on handmade pasta, the menu at Fingers Crossed will celebrate Roman-style round pizzas, made thin and topped with ingredients from local

Melrose Ave., Hancock Park. Tonnarelli Cacio e Pepe at Felix View this post on Instagram A post shared by FELIX / FELIX ALL DAY TAKEAWAY (@felixlosangeles) on Oct 24, 2019 at 3:52pm PDT Chef Evan Funke’s take is informed by his having eaten the dish all

exhilarating: part art installation, part urban haven for enjoying Jesús “Chuy” Cervantes’ modernist tlayudas or the elegant duck “al pastor” served with caramelized pineapple butter and hand-formed corn tortillas. damiandtla.com Felix Trattoria The Venice