Counter Culture…
A local chef (Adam Pechal) takes center stage in his new restaurant and proves there's nothing confidential about this kitchen. [the] intimate bistro features a "chef bar," a dark granite countertop that runs the length of the brightly lit display kitchen …Tuli boasts an ambience at once unfussy and urbane. The selective menu boasts a palate of considerable breadth, as befits Pechal. .. Perhaps nothing embodies the essence of Tuli as aptly as the grilled ham and cheese, which comes topped with a fried egg and cheddar cheese sauce and goes by the name Croque American. Presto: A sandwich that's atypical without being alien

Sactown Magazine Article by Martin Kuz
photos by Marc Thomas Kallweit

...Tulí represents the small, classy, individualistic restaurants you stumble across all over San Francisco but rarely find in the Sacramento area.

...an internationally inspired and season-oriented style of food that's under-priced for the exhilaration and authority with which it is prepared and presented...

Pechal seems to have envisioned a clientele at ease talking up neighbors...he's brought together cooks and servers as adept as therapists at getting guests to open up, especially warm and jovial manager Jessica Petersen.

Sacramento Bee Food Critic Mike Dunne

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Great Food...Definitely a must go if you're a "foodie" ..chefs are cooking everything right in front of you makes it entertaining!
Yelp Reviews Sacramento

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Here's the thing, I'm not interested in going back to Tuli once every blue moon. I want to go there three or four times a week. To me, it's the perfect restaurant..

Sac-Eats (column from SacRag.com

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Pechal would have made a great character on Bravo's reality TV show "Top Chef." But Bravo's loss is Sacramento's gain: Late last year, Pechal unveiled his long-awaited restaurant Tulí Bistro, a casual open-all-day and most-of-the-night hangout...
At Tulí, he marries great food with an approachable, "Cheers"-like setting.

Best Chefs of Sacramento
Sacramento Magazine~Feb 2008