Food and Drink Awards: Best Restaurateurs
Integrated Hospitality Management
Todd Darling and Rob Spina Jr started off as best childhood buddies, then became successful restaurateurs in their own rights, and then joint owners of Posto Pubblico. Now they’ve gone one step further, being the brains behind the insanely successful Integrated Hospitality Management company (IHM). They’re responsible for multiple projects (Posto, Homegrown Foods, Cantopop, Linguini Fini) but they haven’t turned into one of those cash-counting vampires who sit in the comforts of the air-conditioned office. Darling’s down at the company farm every chance he gets while Spina mans the floors at one (or all three) of their restaurants on any given evening. Yes, these guys actually give a damn about what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well.
Runner up
The Press Room Group
Alan Lo, Arnold Wong and Paulo Pong redefined casual, bistro-chic dining in Hong Kong when they opened the first Press Room restaurant and Classified cheese room. Their restaurant empire (which also includes The Pawn, SML, The News Room and soon-to-open The Principal) keeps on growing and we’re excited to see what else they’ll bring to the dining scene in 2012.
Readers' Choice
Yeah, we like the guys at Integrated Hospitality Management... and it looks like you do too.
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Sorry, but Linguini Fini is without a doubt the WORST meal I have EVER eaten in HK. The food it bland and ridiculously expensive. $48 for a teensy plate of choi sum - absurd!
Very poor, portions are very small, soup, main course, disgraceful for a place that charges nearly $600/person. No buzz in this place, lack of clientele. Solution is to get a new chef
The above comments were referred to The Principal in Star Street, Wai Chai.
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