The company Lubuds Macau Ltd, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s Lubuds Group, will operate a restaurant to be located at the Taipa Houses-Museum for the next four years.
The result of the tender was officially announced late last month with Lubuds the lone tenderer after the exclusion of the only two other bids. Those bids were from António Neves Coelho (former owner of António Restaurant in Taipa village) and Ho Iok Lin caterer and an executive director of the United Association of Food and Beverage Merchants of Macau, the association led by lawmaker and businessman Chan Chak Mo, and were excluded earlier in the tender process due to the lack of several documents as well as for some procedural issues.
The Lubuds group was founded, and is currently led, by Hong Kong businessman Louie Chung who, besides owning and running 10 restaurants in Hong Kong, Macau, and China, is also the CEO of TONI&GUY Hong Kong Limited. In Macau, the company owns and operated Albergue 1601 restaurant in Saint Lazarus District.
The company will pay monthly rent to the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) of 68,888 patacas for a period of 48 months, according to the tender information. The rules also state that rental payments will be waived in the first 90 days of the contract so the company can perform the necessary construction and fit-out works to adapt the space to receive patrons.
According to the rules set by a tender document at the time of the opening of the public tender (November 9, 2022), the purpose of the space located at Number 1 of the Avenida da Praia in Taipa (also known as the House for Receptions of the Taipa Houses-Museum) was to open and operate a restaurant that “promotes Portuguese culture with Macau’s own characteristics and that has elements of the intangible cultural heritage of Macau, through the supply of Macanese gourmet food and drinks.”
The same tender book noted that, in conjunction with the surrounding environment of the Taipa Houses-Museum, the space can also be used for sales, exhibitions, experimental activities, and workshops, among other things.
