Background
Joachim Splichal was born on July 22, 1954 in Spaichingen, Germany, in the family of Helmut and Berta Renk. They came to the United States in 1981.
Joachim Splichal was born on July 22, 1954 in Spaichingen, Germany, in the family of Helmut and Berta Renk. They came to the United States in 1981.
Joachim attended Hotel Management School in Montreux, Switzerland.
At the age of 18 Joachim began in the hotel industry, working at leading hotels in Canada, Morocco, Israel, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland. In his early twenties he moved to France to start his culinary training, working as a saucier at La Bonne Auberge, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Antibes in southeastern France. At age 23 Splichal was hired as a sous chef by Jacques Maximin to work at the Chantecler restaurant in the Hotel Negresco in Nice. Maximin became Splichal’s mentor and during this period he began to win many culinary awards, including the "Youngest and Most Creative Chef" title from the Cercle Epicurean Society.
Splichal moved to the United States with only a few belongings in 1981 to serve as Executive Chef at the Regency Club in Los Angeles. In the years that followed he worked at the Seventh Street Bistro and began Max Au Triangle. Splichal opened Patina in 1989 in Hollywood with his wife Christine, an international business expert. Patina relocated to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003.
On July 7, 1984, Joachim married a woman named Christine, with whom he has two children.