Questions, answered plainly

Yes. Yu began its soft opening on August 7, 2026 and is now open. A soft opening is a limited first period of service — usually a shorter menu and fewer covers — used to test the kitchen and the room under real conditions before opening fully.

The restaurant is at 400 South Rampart Boulevard, Suite 190, Las Vegas, Nevada 89145, in the Rampart corridor of west Las Vegas.

Service times are still being finalised and will be published here shortly. In the meantime, the times we have released appear on the reservations page as they open.

Yu was founded by Si Jie, known to her guests as Amy. She has more than twenty years of restaurant experience and built Special Noodle into a recognised brand in Northern California. Read the full story.

Yes — both are Si Jie's. Special Noodle began in Northern California and has since reached Austin and Las Vegas. Yu is a separate brand rather than a new Special Noodle location: where Special Noodle is a bowl you return to weekly, Yu is built for the evening you book in advance.

御 (yù) is the classical Chinese character for what was prepared for the imperial table. It describes a standard of care in the kitchen rather than a style of cooking — which is exactly why it was chosen.

Chinese cuisine prepared with fine-dining technique: seafood cooked to order, hard-fire wok cooking, broths built over hours, hand-made dim sum, and small desserts to close. The cuisine page explains how the kitchen works, and the gallery shows the plates.

Not yet. The full menu and pricing will be published here shortly. The photographs on this site are work from our kitchen — they show how we cook and plate, but they are not a menu, and the selection changes with the season.

Please put any allergy or dietary requirement in the notes field when you request a table. The team will review it and reply to confirm what the kitchen can do for your booking — we would rather answer honestly in advance than improvise on the night.

Through the reservations page. Choose a date, pick one of the times shown, tell us how many are coming, and the team confirms your table by email. If no times appear for your date, they have not been released yet.

Send the date, the number of guests and what the occasion is through the contact page, and the team will reply with what can be arranged.

Dress code details will be confirmed and published here.

Messages sent through the contact page reach the team directly and are answered in order.