was mostly based on Cantonese cuisine, but M at the Fringe was considered a pioneer in European fine dining. Twenty years later, the building was forced to undergo extensive renovations to meet government standards forcing Garnaut to relocate M at the Fringe to a different location. That same year, it won HK Magazine's "Best Restaurant" award. Currently, M at the Fringe is still searching for a new location. In 1999, Garnaut expanded the M Restaurant Group to Shanghai by opening M on the Bund on the historic waterfront. After testing the market as a guest chef cooking western food at the famous Peace Hotel on the Bund, Garnaut decided to establish a restaurant overlooking the Bund, the Huangpu River and Pudong. As Garnaut said in a 2004 interview with The Wall Street Journal, "People said I was crazy. The Bund was dark and dingy. This was a real risk." M on the Bund was the sole upscale independent western restaurant on the Bund for five years, but eventually other restaurants, bars and luxury venues followed. M on the Bund has won awards from the Miele Guide, Zagat, and Conde Nast. In 2006, Garnaut established The Glamour Bar on the floor below M on the Bund in the former Nissin Shipping Building. The bar served as a lounge as well as a venue for M Group literary events until its closing in 2014 In 2015, M Glam opened on the same floor as M on the Bund. Glam is a bar, restaurant and lounge and serves as the venue for the restaurant's cultural events. Capital M was established in 2009 in Beijing, overlooking the north end of Tiananmen. Garnaut spent more than seven years negotiating with officials and bidding on the Qianmen location. Garnaut pushed to have the restaurant open before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but the construction of Qianmen was delayed, pushing the restaurant opening back. Even after opening, Capital M faced another challenge as it was forced to shut down for one week during the celebration for the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Capital M had multiple wins in The Beijinger's Reader Restaurant Awards in 2011. Capital M closed in September 2017. In 2002, Garnaut founded the Shanghai International Literary Festival. Philanthropy Garnaut's philanthropic work focuses on the Village People Project, which creates community bathhouses to improve the welfare of rural Chinese women. Previously, she has