Evan Funke has left the building. According to the Los Angeles Times, the chef at Culver City's hot Italian restaurant has resigned from his post and is heading to Europe:

Funke says he doesn't know who's taking over for him…

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran a special section devoted to food cognoscente Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles. Gold clearly identified the Helms Bakery District as the latest center of gravity for exceptional food in Culver City: two out of…

The LA Weekly named the Gnocchetti at Bucato the 9th best dish in Los Angeles in their annual round-up of the city's best food. Here's what the paper said about the pesto pasta dish, which author Besha Rodell called "bright, mellow, and almost floral":

It's hard to pick a favorite pasta from Evan Funke's Bucato in Culver City. In fact, it's hard to…

According to Besha Rodell in LA Weekly's recent review of Bucato, the Culver City restaurant "turns out some of the most glorious pastas this city has ever seen, each bowl a small miracle....This pesto is revelatory in its vast difference from run-of-the-mill…

In the October 5 issue of the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Gold turned his delicate palate on Bucato, the new Italian restaurant in the Helms Complex of Culver City. Gold describes the vision of Bucato's chef Even Funke in this way:

Funke's mission, broadly…

Chef Evan Funke and partner Ed Keebler's long-awaited Italian restaurant in the Helms Complex, Bucato, is now open. A recent LA Times feature described the restaurant's devotion to handmade…

Evan Funke -- the former chef of Rustic Canyon, the mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in Santa Monica -- will open a restaurant named Bucato within the Helm Bakery complex in mid-December. The new restaurant will occupy the space once held by the Asian fusion restaurant Beacon (and, long before that, Beacon Laundry, est. 1930).

According to the…