Chef Jean Pierre Marechal
Belgian-born Executive Chef Jean Pierre Marechal has always been passionate about food. Working in a kitchen since the age of 12, he entered culinary school in Belgium at the age of 14 and graduated at 17. He then did post-graduate work with an emphasis on hotel operations and administration.
Already an accomplished chef, Jean Pierre then traveled the world, becoming a renowned garde-manger and banquet chef for the Club Med organization. This opportunity took him to five continents and more than twenty-one countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Israel, Malaysia, Japan, and the Caribbean. His vegetable and ice carvings have wowed the Club Med Resort clientele from all over the world.
After picking up innumerable culinary insights from this global whirlwind, Jean-Pierre then opened the first Renaissance hotel in South America in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He moved with Renaissance to the United States in 2000, starting in Chicago, then relocating to San Diego. He later moved to Charlotte in October 2004 and has transformed the banquet department at the Marriott City Center into one of the finest culinary operations in the Southeast. It should be no surprise that he was recently promoted to the role of Executive Chef at the Charlotte Marriott City Center.
Jean Pierre Marechal speaks seven languages and his culinary tendencies are equally well-cosmopolitan, focusing on the French-Mediterranean region with a touch of South American flavors
