Title: Chef & Partner
Workplace: Le Cavalier
Alma Mater: University of Delaware, L’Academie de Cuisine
Boards: Independent Restaurant Coalition, Tower Hill School Alumni Council, Christ Church Episcopal Preschool
What is on your bucket list? “Hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc.”
After creating numerous childhood memories through milestone moments spent with family in the Hotel du Pont’s storied Green Room, Tyler Akin fulfilled a dream of leading the helm of that same kitchen when he was named chef in September 2020. Akin has played a pivotal role in the restaurant’s evolution, and views his role there as “like coming home to cook” in a place that shaped many of his early opinions on food. This chef and partner reopened the restaurant in 2020, which originally opened in 1913, after it had closed in 2019 for renovations that were then delayed by the pandemic.
