Lindsay Jang's guest appearances

Lindsay Jang

The Entrepreneurs

This Way Up

ARCH CONVERSATION

Pip Jamieson

Avi Meir

Chris Kong

Cindy Gallop

Norma Kamali

Debbie Millman

Matt Taylor

Anya Hindmarch

Howard Hughes

Gemma O'Brien

Francesca Cavallo

Edith Bowman

Chelcee Grimes

Café Du Cycliste

Steph Douglas

OwlTail

Hailing from Alberta, Canada, restaurateur and entrepreneur Lindsay Jang moved to Hong Kong 12 years ago with business partner Matt Abergel. She is the co-founder of three of Hong Kong’s best Japanese-inspired restaurants (and Monocle favourites) Yardbird, Ronin and Roti Tori, as well as food shop Sunday’s Grocery and drink brand Sunday’s Spirits. Though it all she has somehow found the time to launch creative agency Hecho. Yardbird recently received its first Michelin star.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hailing from Alberta, Canada, restaurateur and entrepreneur Lindsay Jang moved to Hong Kong 12 years ago with business partner Matt Abergel. She is the co-founder of three of Hong Kong’s best Japanese-inspired restaurants (and Monocle favourites) Yardbird, Ronin and Roti Tori, as well as food shop Sunday’s Grocery and drink brand Sunday’s Spirits. Though it all she has somehow found the time to launch creative agency Hecho. Yardbird recently received its first Michelin star.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Lindsay opens up to Steph about conceptualising and growing Yardbird and other brands under her sleeve. They discuss raising kids in a non traditional family setting.

Lindsay opens up to Steph about conceptualising and growing Yardbird and other brands under her sleeve. They discuss raising kids in a non traditional family setting.

LINDSAY JANG, YARDBIRD HK  CO-FOUNDER ON BUILDING A BRAND, 21ST CENTURY PARENTING AND ALL ROUND WHOLESOMENESS

For this episode, I interview Hong Kong restaurateur Lindsay Jang, who is behind some of Hong Kong’s hottest restaurants. I’ve always been fascinated by restauranteurs. Simply because to be a successful one you need to combine a lot of different and varied skillsets – from branding to creating an atmosphere and of course making sure you serve up delicious food.  It’s also notoriously super hard to make a success of it. And with Lindsay I got someone who's done exactly that, she talked me through her entire journey into the restaurant business – co-creating not one but three successful restaurants - Yardbird, Ronin and Roti Tori. And having eaten at Yard bird I can say first hand how amazing the experience is.Originally from Canada, we discussed Lindsay’s upbringing and her different influences including working at her parents’ restaurant and how it led, albeit much later, to finding her passion as a restauranteur. She also credits working everything single job there is at the super-exclusive and world-famous restaurant, Nobu, for teaching her everything she needed to know about the restaurant business. It was there she started creating the master plan for setting up her own restaurant and after a few years of fine-tuning, she took the plunge and hasn’t looked back.What strikes me with Lindsay is her ability to learn from the best around her but also her confidence to pick and choose what would work best for her restaurants; which she successfully managed by creating fun, exciting and unique restaurants that has certainly resonated with the Hong Kong scene. And as usual, we go through a lot more than what she is doing now, we discuss how she travelled the world with a newborn before starting her restaurants in Hong Kong, the benefit of going to drama school in order to learn the art of bullshitting and why competitiveness with others is a complete waste of time. She has an amazing career story that is different to most for sure – I found this conversation fascinating and I hope you do too. Other mentions: Restaurants: Masa, Zuma, Sweetgreen   

For this episode, I interview Hong Kong restaurateur Lindsay Jang, who is behind some of Hong Kong’s hottest restaurants. I’ve always been fascinated by restauranteurs. Simply because to be a successful one you need to combine a lot of different and varied skillsets – from branding to creating an atmosphere and of course making sure you serve up delicious food.  It’s also notoriously super hard to make a success of it. And with Lindsay I got someone who's done exactly that, she talked me through her entire journey into the restaurant business – co-creating not one but three successful restaurants - <a href="http://yardbirdrestaurant.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yardbird</a>, <a href="https://roninhk.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ronin</a> and <a href="https://roti-tori.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roti Tori</a>. And having eaten at Yard bird I can say first hand how amazing the experience is.Originally from Canada, we discussed Lindsay’s upbringing and her different influences including working at her parents’ restaurant and how it led, albeit much later, to finding her passion as a restauranteur. She also credits working everything single job there is at the super-exclusive and world-famous restaurant, <a href="https://noburestaurants.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nobu</a>, for teaching her everything she needed to know about the restaurant business. It was there she started creating the master plan for setting up her own restaurant and after a few years of fine-tuning, she took the plunge and hasn’t looked back.What strikes me with Lindsay is her ability to learn from the best around her but also her confidence to pick and choose what would work best for her restaurants; which she successfully managed by creating fun, exciting and unique restaurants that has certainly resonated with the Hong Kong scene. And as usual, we go through a lot more than what she is doing now, we discuss how she travelled the world with a newborn before starting her restaurants in Hong Kong, the benefit of going to drama school in order to learn the art of bullshitting and why competitiveness with others is a complete waste of time. She has an amazing career story that is different to most for sure – I found this conversation fascinating and I hope you do too. Other mentions: Restaurants: <a href="http://www.masanyc.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Masa</a>, <a href="https://zumarestaurant.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zuma</a>, <a href="https://www.sweetgreen.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sweetgreen</a>