GN Chan

Coming Up

Training at Angel’s Share gave GN Chan a formal base before service work sharpened it in practice. He worked as a bartender at a local dive bar in Taiwan (2010–2011), then as a busboy at theater bar in New York City (from 2011). That sequence moved him through different kinds of bar rooms, each with its own pace and demands. The dive bar taught the realities of daily service; the theater bar in New York City added another layer of timing and room awareness. Together, they formed the working habits behind his later cocktail program. By 2020, that mix of design, performance, and service had become the basis for Double Chicken Please. As co-founder & bartender, GN Chan turned earlier training into a professional position with clear authorship. The role placed him in the same frame as the bar itself: not just serving drinks, but shaping the setting, the pace, and the way the work is read.

Where They Are Now

At Double Chicken Please in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, the work is centered on cocktails. GN Chan’s approach sits at the point where visual judgment, timing, and service discipline meet. The bar format gives that mix a practical outlet: drinks are handled with attention to form, but also with the steady mechanics required of any high-functioning service bar.

Signature

GN's signature dishes include Key Lime Pie. That detail points to how food sits inside his practice as more than an aside. Even with cocktails defining the public-facing side of his work, the reference to Key Lime Pie makes clear that flavor, texture, and composition are part of the same vocabulary.

In Their Words “Food is a big part of it for sure.” The first line puts food inside the center of his thinking rather than at the margin. The second shows an early plan rooted in design, before hospitality became the more practical field for that way of working. Read together, the quotes trace a shift from one kind of making to another, without losing the original structure of the work.

Honors

GN's honors include StarChefs New York Rising Stars Award (Rising Star Bartender) and Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award (2023). These awards sit on a path that moved from apprenticeship to recognition, with the work in cocktails providing the basis for both.