Joachim Splichal

Emmy Awards Governors Ball: 3 Courses, 656 Servers 1,425 Pounds of Beef

As soon as the doors to the Emmy Awards Governors Ball at the L.A. Convention Center opened Sunday night, the band started to play. Songs like Coldplay's "Clocks," "Bésame Mucho," and suddenly a fast and frenetic tune like something out of "Riverdance." Back in the kitchen -- actually an enormous r ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

Chef Tony Esnault and Yassmin Sarmadi Join Forces to Open Spring: Between French Bistro and Fine Dining

When Church & State owner Yassmin Sarmadi and then Patina executive chef Tony Esnault got to chatting at the March of Dimes charity event in Los Angeles last year, and then again at the Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, who knew that a new French restaurant would be the result? Yet that is the happy ... More >>

89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence. Providence is the sort of place where you expect to be impressed, perhaps even astonished. Michael Cimarusti' ... More >>

Pinot Bistro Closing on Feb. 19

The old adage says "April is the cruelest month," but perhaps it's February in the restaurant business. After 20 years, Joachim Splichal's Pinot Bistro (of the fantastic pork rillettes) closes its doors on Feb. 19. To celebrate its two decades, the Studio City restaurant is offering giveaways and ... More >>

Eva: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Chefs Feed: Your Latest Food App

So many apps, so much food, so little time. The latest fun food app is called Chefs Feed, which was released yesterday by Credible, Inc., and it's sort of like an aggregate of all those Bon Appétit back pages where your favorite chef told you what they liked to eat on their own time. The Los Angele ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

First Bite: Dining Artfully at Ray's

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minimalist rectangle that abuts the soaring Ahmanson gallery like a glass s ... More >>

LACMA's New Restaurant Has Patina and Morningstar Written All Over It

Lauren NobleKris Morningstar in front of LACMA's "Urban Light"​ Just months after the official unveiling of LACMA's new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion comes word of its new culinary work of art, Ray's & Stark Bar, slated to debut on March 4. The Patina Group, which oversees t ... More >>

No Nick & Stef's, La Serenata For LAX Food Choices: Boring, High School Cafeteria-Like Restaurants Win For Now

In a Whopper of a deal, Burger King stays at LAX for now.​A world class city deserves world-class food at its international airport, right? After all, LAX saw nearly 7.8 million international passenger arrivals through June of this year. What kind of cuisine to they see, smell and taste? Burge ... More >>

Patina Caters the Emmy Awards Governor's Ball: 180 Cooks, 4,416 Bottles of Wine, 3000 Lbs. of Chickpeas An Elaborate Brownie Recipe

Patina Restaurant GroupChocolate decadence​ Going to 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Governor's Ball? Well, even if you're not either, about 3,500 elaborately overdressed people will be. This year's Emmy Awards will be held August 29th, and following the event, Joachim Splichal's Patina Restaurant ... More >>

Eva: Intimate Bistro, Epic Meals

A place for regulars, at regular prices

Food Fight at LAX

Purveyor of bland challenges plans to upgrade cuisine

Liberty, Equality, LudoBites

Ludovic Lefebvre’s french revolution, 4.0

L.A. Chefs Head to Vegas, but Not to Gamble

Luciano Pellegrini of Valentino will cook lamb at Vegas Uncork'd​The home fires will grow a little dim this week when four top chefs and restaurateurs leave their L.A. haunts to cook in Las Vegas. The draw is Vegas Uncork'd, a gastronomic extravaganza presented by Bon Appetit Thursday through ... More >>

Bon Marche

It's carpe diem at Gary Menes' latest restaurant

EATLACMA Debuts This Weekend: A Year-long Project From LACMA and Fallen Fruit

EATLACMA is neither Joachim Splichal's latest museum café nor an art house monster movie, but a year-long project investigating the social role of food and art and the rituals of eating. The project is a collaboration between the LA County Museum of Art and Fallen Fruit, the LA-based artist collect ... More >>

Patina Gives Breakfast with Santa a Serious Upgrade

Photo Credit: Scott Clark Not a Joachim Splichal approved Santa​For those who observe the once-yearly ritual of watery eggs and heavily cased sausage that is breakfast with Santa: this weekend, the Patina Restaurant Group is offering a number of options to make (at least the eating part of) br ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/2 - 11/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "My friend called me distraught. 'I just ate Iggy!'" Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate. "Cooking for me is a game. My life isn't boring, trust me!" LudoBites Re ... More >>

A Q & A With Patina Chef Tony Esnault, Part 2: Whisks, Tweezers and Carrot Batonnets for Kids

In the first part of our interview with new Patina chef Tony Esnault, we learned that the Frenchman was recommended for his current job by Alain Ducasse, with whom he'd cooked for a number of years. It took Patina founder and owner Joachim Splichal nearly a year to find the right chef for his flagsh ... More >>

Q & A With New Patina Chef Tony Esnault: What He Cooks for Joachim Splichal Why There Are No Potatoes On the Patina Menu

After searching for nearly a year to find the right chef to helm Patina, his downtown flagship restaurant, Joachim Splichal appointed Tony Esnault to the position just over a month ago. The 38 year-old Frenchman is from Saumur, in the Loire Valley, and worked with Alain Ducasse for much of the last ... More >>

Next Iron Chef Eric Greenspan: Will The Foundry's Cuisine Reign Supreme?

After stints in the kitchens of Alain Ducasse, Rocco Despirito, David Bouley and Ferran Adria, the jocular Eric Greenspan made a quick leap from sous chef to executive chef at Joachim Splichal's Patina, then opened a place of his own, The Foundry on Melrose, two years ago at age 32. Now the culinar ... More >>

All About Eva

Actually, Eva is all about you

Landmark Wining and Dining Downtown from Patina

Joachim Splichal's Patina Group presents prix-fixe dinners on its Tuesday-night Tasting Menu series at its Disney-Hall-adjacent flagship throughout the spring and summer. Tonight's California Wines dinner at Patina -- five courses with wine pairings -- costs $150 per diner (including wine, exclusiv ... More >>

Octavio Becerra's Fine Palate

On his own at last, chef has opened a dream of a restaurant

Tiara Cafe: Fashionably Fred

Freshwiches, vegan chic and cupcakes from Fred Eric, L.A.'s chef of invention

Octavio Becerra Goes Solo With Palate Food + Wine

Chef breaks away from Joachim Splichal's Patina empire with his own restaurant and wine shop

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Joachim Splichal's Paperfish

It's in the bag

New Pork City: Eating Everything but the Squeal

Big Apple Pigs

A New Breed of Dog

Let’s be frank

Transcendent, Transitory Tapas

Ludovic Lefebvre’s temporary contemporary

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Magical Mystery Tour

Bastide reopens

99 Essential - List Only

Straight to the Duck Heart

Jonathan Gold’s Top 10 dishes of 2006

Ask Mr. Gold: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Where to Eat Now

The Gamine Gourmet

Suzanne Goin

Dinner and Drinks Downtown

Ciudad, the Pan-Latin downtown outpost of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, may be all things to all people, but especially to all people whose pleasures include bending an elbow every now and then.

Downtown L.A.

The G Spot (Sans the Pleasure)

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Ask Mr. Gold

Fajita pitas, Octopus Tacos, and the Birth of California Cuisine

25 moments — over 25 years — in L.A. restaurants

Ambitious … Pretentious … but Pretty Good Cobbler

Restaurant Halie tries hard

First Bites

Tastes from some of the city’s newest restaurants

The Pasadena Conundrum

Can Bizou succeed where others have failed?

The Big Bang at the Bing