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Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs

Bucato: This Week's Restaurant Review

Bucato, Evan Funke's new Culver City Italian restaurant, is the subject of this week's restaurant review. The full review is over in the food department -- we hope you'll consider reading the whole thing. Or you can peruse the condensed version, below. Chef(s): Funke is best known for his work at ... More >>

Bucato Opening This Month in Culver City: Pigs Heads A Pasta Lab

If you've missed Evan Funke's glorious handmade pasta since he left Rustic Canyon in early 2012. If you've followed Funke's porchetta truck down the mid-town streets, trailing not so much exhaust as high octane pork fumes. If you've driven by the empty space in the Helms Bakery complex where Kazuto ... More >>

Don't Laugh: The Lonely Island Are the Best Rap Group Going

By Ben Westhoff and Katie Bain Last night at Sonos Studio, The Lonely Island -- Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schafer -- talked about their music, debuted a video, and hosted a listening party for their forthcoming Wack Album, out Tuesday. Collaborators include Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Ph ... More >>

11 Great L.A. Chefs Tell Us Their Holiday Food Traditions

For the past couple of weeks, we've been talking to L.A. chefs about their holday food traditions. Here's a roundup of all of those great chefs and what they do for the holidays, food-wise, plus a couple of extras thrown in for good measure.

Chefs Cook At Home, The Holiday Edition: Sotto's Steve Samson A Recipe For Tortellini

This week and next, we'll be featuring the holiday food traditions of L.A. chefs. Today, Sotto's Steve Samson tells us about his family's Christmas tortellini. "My mom is from Bologna so practically every special occasion meal, especially Christmas Day and Easter Sunday, is centered around tortelli ... More >>

6 Great Food Museums: Food as Art, Or Not

Last week, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum opened in Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, just outside Bologna; the first in the world, it says, to "delve into the history, culture, and technology of artisan gelato." Inside, you'll learn about the history of the frozen treat, from an 11th century recipe for pom ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Cooking for Billionaires, and Why Curtis Stone Is, in Fact, the Man

Hooray! Top Chef Masters is back! You know, that souped-up version of the old Bravo staple in which we get to watch alreadyfamous chefs duke it out in the kitchen, not for money (as all their winnings go to charity) but for the prestige of being crowned truly the best of the best. Right? That must ... More >>

Best Warehouse Pizza: Eatalian Cafe

Keep chewing. Close your eyes and the scene is clear: You're eating pizza in Bologna, a softly lit neighborhood haunt, where in the corner rests a majestic oven built from the soil of Mount Vesuvius. Open your eyes and the illusion disappears: You're eating at Eatalian Cafe, in a cavernous warehouse ... More >>

Monday Morning Food News Roundup: It's National Bologna Day!

SpecialKRB / FlickrNot Oscar Mayer bologna.​It's National Bologna Day. Not the day we honor the Northern Italian city famous for its ragù, but a day to honor pressed, sliced tubes of meat. Let the lunchmeat reign -- and rain. It's also National Food Day! [LA Weekly] Drinking whiskey in the ... More >>

'Even Kobe Got Outsourced,' Reads Picket Sign at Occupy Wall Street

J. Larson via LA Taco"A Kobe Bryant themed sign from lower Manhattan."​Amid the Occupy Wall Street crowd of a thousand causes, today, came one non-cause we can totally get behind: Losing Kobe Bryant to Italy. Just in case the Occupy L.A. protesters were forgetting the finish line, what with a ... More >>

Making Pasta With Rustic Canyon's Evan Funke: A Photo Gallery A Recipe

Making pasta at home isn't difficult. A handful of dough. An Atlas pasta machine. But if you're Rustic Canyon executive chef Evan Funke, who learned the art in Italy and is a Bologna certified chef sfoglino, you mix your pasta by hand, roll it out so thinly that you can see through it, and make the ... More >>

Nine Things You Didn't Know About Weird Al

​Piece by Sam Bloch An Evening With "Weird Al" Yankovic The Grammy Museum 7-25-2011 Better Than... A lost evening on Wikipedia. After 30 years in the music industry, Lynwood's own "Weird Al" Yankovic sat down yesterday at LA Live's Grammy Museum for a candid look back at his career. Talking ... More >>

Creminelli's "Full Muscle" Meats: Picnic, Sandwich Sure, Muscle Beach-Worthy

JgarbeeCreminelli's Latest Assortment​This time of year, those Farmers Market Santa Rosas and lemon cucumbers get all of the attention. Well deserved, but some of us also have the same veneration for really great picnic meats. Not your average deli-counter glazed ham affairs, but fresh, authen ... More >>

Q & A With Rustic Canyon Chef Evan Funke, Part 2: Duct Tape as Kitchen Tool, Pasta-making in Italy Home Again

Yesterday we left off the first part of our interview with Rustic Canyon executive chef Evan Funke when he was still at Spago, where he worked his way up the ranks during and after culinary school, and he'd just started telling us about not being able to walk anymore when we stopped. Sorry. Consider ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

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Bellini Osteria Bar & Lounge Opens in Westlake Village: Your Meatball, in a Glass

A tanned Westlake Village crowd in typical Southern California winter attire (sequinned tank tops, shorts, stilletos) turned out for the soft opening of Bellini Osteria Bar and Lounge last night. Young waiters dished out samplings of creamy polenta with parmesan cheese; burrata drizzled with balsami ... More >>

Wait. What? Weird Al Joins Black Francis, Tenacious D and more Tuesday for 'Winston Calling' Benefit

Wait. What? Weird Al Joins Black Francis, Tenacious D and more Tuesday 'Winston Calling' Benefit

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