-in-L.A. disconnect between “industry restaurants” and “serious restaurants,” an odd juxtaposition of broadly pleasing menus and VIP pampering and other case-by-case intangibles. Funke — an L.A. native who spent formative years learning from Wolfgang
Puck at Spago and whose father is an Academy Award-winning special effects photographer — has an insider’s instinct for coddling the Hollywood elite. Yet any Los Angeles restaurant obsessives familiar with Funke’s cooking also knows he’s a perfectionist