Founded by Lawrence Matthews, what began as a single hospitality venue grew, over 20 years, into a portfolio of 24 venues and 200+ people across Hong Kong — restaurants, bars and nightlife concepts built and run directly by GENESIS, not licensed out or franchised in.
GENESIS has always operated independently: developing its own concepts, hiring and training its own teams, and carrying full commercial responsibility for every venue it opened.
Individual venues have been recognised in Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List and Tatler's Best Restaurants.
Concepts developed around location, catchment and the character of the site — not a format imposed from outside.
Concept, brand, design, procurement, opening and operations connected as one process, run by one team.
20+ years of hands-on experience staffing, training, supplying and running venues consistently.
The objective was never simply to open a venue, but to run a commercially sustainable business.
Every GENESIS venue in the track record was built and operated in Hong Kong — across Central, Sheung Wan, Sai Ying Pun, Kennedy Town and Happy Valley. That depth in one market, across 24 venues and multiple brands and formats, is the foundation GENESIS now brings to new partnerships and developments elsewhere.