Table for 20, please

Along Abbot Kinney

Location: 3 Square.

Seats: 13.

Features: Carved out of dense Ipe wood with matching cube-shaped stools.

Source: Designed and handmade by owner Hans Rockenwagner, self-taught furniture-maker, in less than a week.

Special-occasion dining: Updated German-Bavarian cuisine—think spätzle, schnitzel and goulash—which can be spun into a chef's table or prix-fixe menu.

Corkage fee: $20.

Cutting fee for BYO birthday cake: $1.75 per person.

Extras: The preeminent chef/restaurateur and longtime Angeleno considers himself a forefather of large-table dining, which he started 12 years ago at his late Santa Monica namesake, Röckenwagner.