Country United Kingdom | First awarded 2008 | |
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Awarded for The design of food and beverage spaces Official website restaurantandbardesignawards.com | ||
The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, is an annual award dedicated to recognising the design and architecture of food and beverage spaces internationally. The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards is an independent award system, set up by Marco Rebora in 2008 in the United Kingdom with the encouragement of a panel of judges, including the editor-in-chief of Wallpaper*, Tony Chambers.
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Since the first awards in 2009 there have been over 5,000 entries from design and architectural industries and hospitality organisations around the world.
Each year the awards are judged by a new panel of representatives from the fields of art, architecture, design and gastronomy. Notable judges have included Ian Callum, Mark Hix, Gerry Judah, Yotam Ottolenghi, Thomas Heatherwick, Julia Peyton-Jones and Karim Rashid. The winners are awarded at annual ceremonies at a chosen host venue affiliated with the award. In 2012 the ceremony was held at The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards organises a year-round programme of events based in the UK and most recently Internationally with an aim to build a network between entrants, judges, partners and sponsors.
In 2014 Taschen publications published a book, Restaurant & Bar Design dedicated to the ongoing work of the Awards.
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Each year the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards acknowledges two overall winners under the categories of Best Bar and Best Restaurant.
The number of additional category winners varies each year. The inaugural award in 2008/2009 was open to entrants from UK and identified nine category winners. In 2009/10 the awards became International and introduced two more category winners under the titles International Restaurant and International Bar. The awards also have a number of sub-categories.