{"id":421553,"date":"2026-08-02T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421553\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:04:32","slug":"adam-pechal-sacramento-celebrity-chef-arrested-for-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421553\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Pechal, Sacramento celebrity chef, arrested for domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

(FOX40.COM) \u2014 Adam Pechal, a local chef who rose to fame on Anthony Bourdain’s “The Taste,” will appear in court Friday after being arrested on felony domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Pechal’s partner Wednesday night at about 11 p.m., Sgt. Edward Igoe told FOX40. She told deputies he had physically assaulted her.<\/p>\n

Update: Citing ‘insufficient evidence,’ Sacramento DA drops charges against celebrity chef<\/a><\/p>\n

Deputies arrested Pechal without incident and he was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail after midnight on Thursday, where bail was set at $50,000. Jail records show he was booked for corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, a felony domestic violence offense.<\/p>\n

Pechal, 50, is set to be arraigned Friday at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Sacramento chef Adam Pechal shows off his Tuli Bistro menu at Tiger Restaurant in 2020. (FOX40)<\/p>\n

The local chef came to fame in 2013 when he appeared on Season 1 of ABC’s “The Taste,” a cooking competition show hosted by the late Anthony Bourdain.<\/p>\n

Locally, Pechal was known as the chef behind Tuli Bistro and Restaurant Thir13en, now-closed restaurants in Midtown and Downtown Sacramento. Most recently, he created the menu for Local Flights LLC, a new restaurant<\/a> in the Sacramento International Airport.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee, which first reported<\/a> the arrest, noted that social media posts show Pechal “now operates as a private chef, largely for private events and Sacramento Kings athletes, along with work as a consultant and educator.”<\/p>\n

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