The chef’s newly opened Funke in Beverly Hills, an ode to Sicily with a pasta-making lab, has already welcomed David Geffen, Kris Jenner and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Auteurs forever chase final cut and a blank check. L.A. chef Evan Funke, the acclaimed phenomenon behind two of the toughest reservations in town, Felix and Mother Wolf, has attained both with his latest restaurant in Beverly Hills, the eponymous Funke, which opened May 5. “I told Evan, ‘This is your Spago,'” says Kurt Rappaport, Funke’s new business partner and sole backer.
“I had no budget — and I exceeded it,” explains Rappaport — the CEO of Westside Estate Agency and luxury real estate agent who has brokered home sales for the likes of Ellen DeGeneres, Larry Ellison and Tom Cruise — of his carte-blanche spend . Rappaport hopes Funke becomes a dealmaking, scene-shaking “modern-day Cheers,” in the vein of the late Morton’s.
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