Multi-star chef Yannick Alléno announced on Monday that he would take over the school restaurant of the Lyfe institute, formerly the Paul Bocuse institute. The establishment, located in Lyon, trains 1,200 students in gastronomy and hospitality from all over the world each year.
“Having this restaurant makes me proud and happy, and therefore even more responsible for the quality of what we pass on to young people in this training,” declares the chef who is at the head of a group of 17 restaurants with a total of 15 stars.
A “smuggler”
Renowned for his art of sophisticated sauces, obtained through extraction, fermentation or cryoconcentration processes, Yannick Alléno says he sees himself as a “smuggler”.
Currently managed in the kitchen by chef Cyril Bosviel, the restaurant at the Lyfe institute, in the heart of Lyon, will close in June for 5 to 6 months of work. The establishment will then be transformed to incorporate the codes of the Pavyllon restaurants that Yannick Alléno has developed in Paris, London and Monaco. The work represents an investment of 2 to 3 million euros, said the institute’s general director, Dominique Giraudier. Its opening is scheduled for December 2025.
