About

Simon Xi

Simon Xi is the founder and managing partner of All Blue Hospitality. Over the past decade he has invested in, opened, and operated restaurants across New York and Los Angeles — including two MICHELIN-starred concepts (Tsukimi in the East Village and Shibumi in Los Angeles), Silver Apricot (a New York Times Top 100 restaurant), SakaMai, Little Tong Noodle Shop, and current concepts A Tí and Bar Moga.

His path into restaurants wasn't through a kitchen. Simon trained as an engineer — an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon — and worked in finance before hospitality pulled him in. In every restaurant since, his focus has been the backend: the books, the systems, the cash flow, the decisions the numbers force you to make. The chefs and the rooms got the press; his job was making the businesses work.

That's what All Blue's services arm offers now — bookkeeping, consulting, and fractional CFO work for hospitality operators, from a team that has sat on every side of the table: investor, owner, and the person closing the books at month end.