Pelaccio is the boy-wonder chef behind Fatty Crab as well as an ever-expanding galaxy of trendy restaurants in New York and beyond.

Scarsdale native Pelaccio attended the University of Vermont and had early jobs at Drew Nieporent's Myriad Restaurant Group, a food software company, and at the Food Network before turning to cooking himself. He eventually went to Asia and spent a year working at a restaurant in Kuala Lampur where he picked up the Malay culinary skills that have since become his signature. After returning to the States and enrolling at the French Culinary Institute, he cut his teeth at Daniel Boulud's Daniel, Thomas Keller's famed French Laundry in Napa Valley, and Rocco DiSpirito's Union Pacific. In 2003, Pelaccio arrived on the scene when he was installed as chef at the short-lived (but much-fawned-over) Chickenbone Café in Williamsburg; 5 Ninth, his fusion restaurant/club on Little West 12th Street, opened in the summer of 2004. Pelaccio followed up in 2005 with the quirky Malaysian spot Fatty Crab, and has since added additional outposts with his "Fatty Crew." [Image via Getty]