Before you commit.
Test a site, investment, or operating proposition. Understand the market, the economics, and the conditions required for success.
Integrated Hospitality Advisory
From vision
to execution.
We advise, develop, and operate hospitality businesses—connecting cultural relevance with commercial performance.
Discover the practice ↓New York · A wider perspectiveStrategy / Development / Operations
The Practice
Places of meaning.
Hospitality with purpose.
Meaningful places bring people together. They have an authentic point of view—and a life shaped by the individuals who gather there.
Culture is created in the collision of individuals: guests, hosts, artists, neighbors, and the people who make a place their own. The room sets the context. Hospitality makes the connection.
Kilvert & Co. helps owners, developers, and hospitality brands create the conditions for that life to take hold. We connect identity and experience with commercial discipline and operational execution—so places of meaning can endure.
Our Expertise
One integrated perspective.
Three connected disciplines.
01Advisory & Strategy
Clarity before commitment.
Define the opportunity, test the economics, and establish a practical path forward. We bring an operator’s perspective to decisions about place, investment, and performance.
- Market & location analysis
- Financial feasibility & operating models
- Investment diligence & operator selection
- Performance diagnostics & turnaround strategy
02Concept Development
& Brand Expansion
& Brand Expansion
Identity, thoughtfully developed.
Translate a compelling idea into an experience with a clear point of view. For established brands, growth begins with understanding what must be preserved—and what can evolve.
- Concept positioning & guest experience
- Development planning
- New-market entry & brand adaptation
- Licensing & partnership strategy
03Operations & Management
Ambition, made operational.
Build the team, systems, and service culture to deliver the vision consistently. We connect the guest experience with the financial and organizational realities behind it.
- Opening preparation & deployment
- Leadership recruitment & development
- Service standards & operating systems
- Management oversight & financial accountability
When to Engage Us
At the moments
that shape a business.
When an idea needs form.
Define the positioning, guest experience, and operating model that connect a distinctive concept to its place and audience.
As opening becomes real.
Align budgets, leadership, systems, and service standards. Bring the critical path into focus and prepare the team to deliver.
When performance falls short.
Examine the relationship between revenue, costs, service, and leadership. Establish priorities and support their execution.
Before the next chapter.
Assess new markets and partners. Develop a path for growth that protects the identity that made the original meaningful.
Our Approach
Character is felt.
Excellence is built.
Creative identity, guest experience, and business performance belong in the same conversation. Our role is to hold them together—through decisions that are thoughtful, commercially grounded, and achievable in practice.
- 01Understand what makes it matter.
- 02Establish what makes it viable.
- 03Build what makes it work.
How We Work
Personally led.
Thoughtfully assembled.
A clear point of accountability, with the right expertise for the work.
Corwin leads each engagement. The work begins with ownership objectives, the guest experience, and an honest assessment of the business. Together, we define the scope, responsibilities, and decisions that need to be made.
Where specialist input is needed, we work with ownership to identify and coordinate the appropriate expertise—culinary, beverage, design, finance, or technical. The team is assembled around the assignment, with responsibilities made explicit.
Understand
Listen, review the evidence, and define the opportunity.
Align
Set priorities, responsibilities, budgets, and a practical plan.
Deliver
Stay close to implementation, review performance, and adapt.
Founder & Principal
Corwin
Kilvert
A career shaped on the floor.
A perspective across the business.
Corwin’s experience spans intimate neighborhood institutions, celebrated dining rooms, destination hospitality, and live music venues. It has shaped a conviction: a place earns its relevance through how it makes people feel—and sustains it through how well it is run.
His professional experience includes Roman and Williams Guild, Le Coucou, Raoul’s, The Django at The Roxy Hotel, Eleven Madison Park, and Shukette, as well as Scarpetta Beach at Gurney’s Montauk, where he served as Sommelier from 2015 to 2017.
Kilvert & Co. is an independent practice founded on that experience. Corwin brings a working knowledge of the dining room and the wider business to each assignment, with direct involvement from the first conversation through execution.
Selected Career Experience
Perspective earned
in practice.
Selected leadership roles from Corwin’s career. This experience belongs to the founder and forms the foundation of the practice.
Creative Hospitality
Roman and
Williams Guild
Director of Restaurants & Hospitality
Restaurant and hospitality leadership within a design-led organization, bringing the experience of the dining room into conversation with creative identity and business performance.
Perspective: connecting creative vision, guest experience, and operational execution.
Restaurant Leadership
Le Coucou
& Raoul’s
General Manager · Separate appointments
General management experience across two distinctive New York restaurants: a celebrated fine-dining room and an enduring neighborhood institution.
Perspective: leadership, service culture, consistency, and stewardship of a restaurant’s identity.
Hospitality & Live Music
The Django
The Roxy Hotel · New York
Venue Management & Musical Programming
Managed an intimate jazz club within The Roxy Hotel, overseeing musical programming and working collaboratively with musicians to shape the experience.
During Corwin’s management, annual revenue grew from approximately $1.75 million to $2.5 million over a period of more than a year.
Perspective: bringing artists, audiences, and hospitality together within a commercially successful venue.
Brands & Opportunities
The right idea.
The right place.
The right partners.
We bring a considered perspective to the meeting of hospitality brands, distinctive properties, and development ambition.
For brand owners exploring their next chapter, and property owners seeking the right hospitality identity, the conversation starts with fit. Individual opportunities and relationships are discussed privately.
Explore a possibility ↗In Conversation
What are you
imagining?
A new beginning. A next chapter.
A business ready to become what it could be.