title: Alan Yu (chef)
text: # Alan Yu (chef)
  
  Chef Alan Yu, (Chinese: 余溟燁, born 24 January 1971), born in Shanghai and raised in Washington, D.C., has worked in several kitchens around the world. His passion to work with food has led Yu to work at, and head up, some of New York City's and Washington DC's most desirable restaurants, including the original Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Michel Richard Citronelle. In Shanghai, he cooked at Le Plantane, 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana – an offshoot of the three-Michelin star original in Hong Kong, Nice Meeting You – Chinese author Han Han restaurant, and most recently his own restaurant Le Rivage – a fine dining concept, situated on the northern stretch of the Bund.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  Jury - S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016
  
  