Yannick Alléno: what we know about the details of his son’s death

ANTONY ALLENO. This Sunday, May 8, 2022, the son of Yannick Alléno, multi-starred chef, died after being hit by a car in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Who is the driver of the stolen vehicle? We say everything about what we know.

[Mise à jour le 9 mai 2022 à 22h41] The world of gastronomy is in mourning. Antoine Alléno, the son of chef Yannick Alléno, died on Sunday May 8 after being hit by a vehicle in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. According to Le Figaro, the 24-year-old young man was fatally mowed down by a fugitive from a stolen car, while he was riding a scooter with a passenger, and had stopped at a traffic light. red at the corner of place de la Résistance and avenue Bosquet, near the Alma bridge, where Lady Di died 25 years ago…

According to information from the national daily, the man involved in the accident is a 25-year-old young man known to the police. He was also the subject of a wanted notice because he had to serve a prison sentence. He was quickly apprehended by a policeman outside his service. The driver was driving in a drunken state.

Chef Yannick Alléno, aged 53, spoke with his family in a press release on Monday, May 9: “It is with deep sadness that Chef Yannick Alléno, his mother Isabelle, his brother Thomas, his family, as well as the teams of the Yannick Alléno Group, inform you of the death of their son, brother, colleague and friend, Antoine, victim of a road accident which occurred on the night of May 8 in Paris. The family also portrayed young Antoine as a “promising and talented” chef.

Antoine Alléno followed in the footsteps of his father crowned with 13 stars all over the world and already took on the role of chef in the gourmet burger restaurant he ran with his father at L’Allénothèque, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Yannick Alléno, at the head of two 3-star restaurants, the Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris and Le 1947 in Courchevel, is expected in the casting for the 2022 edition of Top Chef… Currently in mourning, his future projects risk being shaken …

Under what circumstances did Yannick Alléno’s son die?

The road accident occurred around 11:20 p.m. on the night of Sunday May 8 to Monday May 9, 2022, according to Le Parisien. An Audi RS6 would have hit Antoine Alléno’s scooter at full speed, forcing the passage between a taxi and a scooter. The driver of the Audi, a 25-year-old man from Bezons in the Val d’Oise, allegedly stole the luxury car from the parking lot of the Coya restaurant by providing the valet with a false ticket. Yannick Alléno’s son died instantly, while his passenger and the driver of the VTC were taken to hospital, without their vital prognosis being engaged. The passenger suffered bruises and was taken care of in shock.

The driver of the car, who had fled on foot, was finally arrested by a police officer from the Paris metropolitan area’s local security department (DSPAP), who was off duty during the incident. After being placed in police custody and refusing a blood alcohol test, the defendant was then taken to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, but no injuries were found. “The suspect was wanted for a prison sentence to be served and for drunk driving,” said the Paris police.

Who was Antoine Alléno, the son of Yannick Alléno?

Antoine Alléno followed in the footsteps of his multi-starred father by being himself a cook. Moreover, father and son were already working together. Antoine took on the role of chef in the restaurant he ran with his father, the Father and Son Burger by Alléno. The restaurant offers gourmet burgers in the heart of the famous wine cellar L’Allénothèque, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. In 2021, Antoine Alléno had created a new burger at the winner of Top Chef last year, Mohamed Cheikh. “Antoine belonged to this new generation of cooks, determined to revolutionize the French gastronomic landscape”, announced his relatives in a press release.

Who is Yannick Alléno, multi-starred chef?

Chef Yannick Alléno was born on December 16, 1968 in Puteaux in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region, into a family of bistros. Trained at the Santos Dumont high school in Saint-Cloud, he obtained a BEP in cooking and then joined the Lutetia hotel in 1986 as an apprentice pastry chef. In 1987, he joined the Royal Monceau hotel as a clerk, then the Sofitel de Sèvres hotel as Demi-Chef then chef de partie in 1990. He continued his cooking career at the Le Meurice hotel in 1992 as as chef de partie then at the Drouant restaurant in 1994 as assistant chef, before becoming head chef at the Hôtel Scribe in 1999.

In 2003, the young chef Yannick Alléno was at the head of the restaurant of the hotel Le Meurice in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and obtained a 2nd star in the Michelin Guide in 2004. But it was in 2007, when he had just celebrating his 40th birthday, that the chef was crowned with three stars in the Michelin Guide, a consecration that earned him, a year later, in 2008, the title of Chef of the Year.

If Yannick Alléno was awarded 3 stars in France in 2007 with Le Meurice which he left in 2012, then in 2015 with the Pavillon Ledoyen, and finally in 2017 with his restaurant Le 1947 located in Courchevel, he is also an emblematic figure of French cuisine abroad. In 2008, he founded the restaurant group Yannick Alleno Group in the field of luxury catering, took the reins of the Cheval Blanc palace in Courchevel and then moved to the Royal Mansour in Marrakech. In 2010, he settled in Dubai at One&Only The Palm then in Beijing at Shangri-La. In 2011, he moved to Taipei 101 in Taiwan. Beyond his prestigious tables which he then opened in France (see below), Yannick Alléno is also known to the general public for his regular participation in Top chef on M6.

What are Yannick Alléno’s restaurants?

In 2012, Yannick Alléno opened his first bistro in Paris: Le Terroir Parisien, in the 5th arrondissement, in homage to products and recipes from Île-de-France where he grew up, with an accessible menu. His second Terroir Parisien opened in 2013 at the Palais Brongniart in the 2nd arrondissement.

It was in 2014 that Yannick Alléno took over the reins of the Pavillon Ledoyen in the square of the Champs-Élysées in the 8^and arrondissement of Paris, for which he was awarded 3 stars in 2015. He was also named cook of the year by Gault & Millau that same year.

In 2017, he won three stars in the Michelin Guide for his restaurant Le 1947 located in the prestigious Cheval Blanc palace in Courchevel. The chef offers a “technical, creative and tasty cuisine” applied to local products, cheeses and fish. Its specialties are the modern tartiflette, black truffle and Reblochon snow, the Gnocchi of whitefish in watercress, with black truffles and buttermilk, or the chocolate fondant under a mikado of tangy meringues, seaweed biscuit and yuzu sorbet.

In April 2022, the 13-star chef adapted his famous Pavyllon at the Hermitage in Monaco, reinventing the codes of the palace restaurant.

Who is Yannick Alléno’s wife?

On December 18, 2015, chef Yannick Alléno married the sculptress Laurence Bonnell, met in 2011. They married at the town hall of the 8th arrondissement of Paris. “The important work of the heart for me is a sculpture by Laurence Bonnel entitled Awakening, which the latter had deposited one morning in the middle of my living room, a surprise. It was the beginning of our story and this work became a symbol of this moment that changed my life”, he confided about his relationship to the magazine fine arts on November 12, 2021.

What love story between Yannick Alléno and Patricia Kaas?

Yannick Alléno was the companion of singer Patricia Kaas between 2008 and 2009. “We kept a real tenderness,” said Patricia Kaas in an interview with Retro magazine.