From a new Italian restaurant in Venice to a celebrity sushi favorite in Orange County, here’s what’s happening in the food and drink world.

Mangia, mangia: Felix, a new Italian restaurant by chef Evan Funke (formerly of the late Bucato in Culver City), is now open in the former Joe’s Restaurant space on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. The restaurant, whose name means “happy” or “lucky” in Latin, has an open kitchen with a wood-fired pizza oven and Tuscan grill. There’s also a temperature-controlled pasta laboratory where diners can watch Funke’s pasta being made, all 18 to 20 different kinds of them.