Mott 32 dining room
About Steelhead

The team behind the world's #1 luxury Chinese restaurant.

Twenty-five years placing living restaurants inside the world's best hotels — and making them run.

The Founders

Two operators. One conviction.

Matt Reid
Matt Reid
Hong Kong · Co-Founder

Founder of Steelhead and Maximal Concepts, and creator of Mott 32 — winner of the World Interior of the Year. Twenty-five years building the restaurants the world's best hotels want inside their walls, across Hong Kong, Dubai, Las Vegas and Singapore.

Malcolm Wood
Malcolm Wood
Lisbon · Co-Founder

Award-winning entrepreneur, filmmaker and UN Mountain Ambassador. Co-founder of Maximal Concepts and KIN Farms, he has launched 60+ venues, earned 500+ international awards, and produced environmental documentaries including A Plastic Ocean.

60+
Restaurants launched
500+
International awards
25 yrs
Defining rooms worldwide

"An elaborate stage upon which the most delicious tales are told."

Tatler · Best Interior Design Award
Twenty-Five Years In The Room

The world's best hotels already trust us.

Through Mott 32 and Maximal Concepts, our restaurants operate inside the most demanding hotels and integrated resorts on earth — relationships built over twenty-five years that money cannot buy.

Operating & development partners
Mandarin OrientalSandsCrown CasinosMarriott InternationalRosewoodAccorCapella
The Aubrey at Mandarin Oriental
The Aubrey · Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong
Beyond The Table

A group that gives more than it takes.

Hospitality is the front of house. Behind it sits an ecosystem twenty-five years in the making — sourcing, operations and advocacy that travel into every hotel we enter.

KIN Farms
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KIN Farms

Regenerative farms feeding the kitchens — provenance you can trace back to the soil.

Plastic Conscious
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Plastic Conscious

Single-use plastic engineered out of every operation, end to end.

A Plastic Ocean
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Film & Story

Environmental documentaries that carry the message far beyond the table — including A Plastic Ocean.

UN Advocacy
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UN Advocacy

Co-founder Malcolm Wood, United Nations Mountain Ambassador — carrying it to the world stage.


A partner with conscience —  the kind of story the world's best hotels and integrated resorts are proud to put their name beside.

Advocacy & Film

Why two restauranteurs make environmental films.


"The mountains and the oceans feed us. We use the reach of our rooms — and our films — to protect them."

Malcolm Wood · UN Mountain Ambassador
A Plastic Ocean
Feature documentary
The Last Glaciers
Feature documentary
The Last Glaciers
Work With Us

A partner your guests — and your board — will be proud of.

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