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stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri broke bread just hours after Edebiri spoke about their characters' possible romance connection in a recent profile of the actress in .White and Edebiri hit up Evan Funke's new Italian joint, Funke, for dinner on Wednesday night. The stars of the popular Hulu show looked pretty casual for their outing, with White opting for khakis, white sneakers and dress shirt over a white T-shirt.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLos Angeles chef Evan Funke knows his way around the Oscars.Not only is his father, Alex, a three-time Academy Award winning visual effects director (“I’ve been to a couple of Oscars as a guest of my dad’s,” Evan says), but he’s also helped create the dishes for the annual Governors Ball several times alongside culinary celeb Wolfgang Puck.And now this year, Funke, whose Italian eateries Felix in Venice and Hollywood’s Mother Wolf are celebrity and industry hot spots, will make his debut designing the menu for the Vanity Fair viewing dinner and after-party, which returns this year to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills after the 2021 hiatus due to the pandemic. Variety caught up with Funke as he put the finishing touches on the top-secret menu to talk pasta, Bill Murray and the dangers of red sauce.How do you begin coming up with a menu for one of Hollywood’s biggest parties of the year? I want everyone to have pasta and one pasta that I really wanted to highlight is something that was passed on to me during my very first trip when I moved to Italy — Alessandra Spisni’s lasagna Bolognese.

Brad Pitt is just having fun. There was a rumor going around that the 58-year-old was dating Swedish singer Lykke Li but an insider told Page Six it’s not true.

Evan Funke heard a familiar sound one recent evening at Felix in Venice. "A director friend of mine was doing a pitch for a movie on the patio," he recalls of the scene at his critically acclaimed restaurant, where he serves as chef and owner.