Terms and conditions

Awards entries

Any professional may enter, including interior designers, interior architects, architects, food and beverage space operators and owners etc.

All work must be entered as a collaboration between the designer and the food and beverage space operator. If you collaborated on a piece of work with another company or individual, you will need to make sure they haven’t entered it in the same category as well (although they can enter it in a different category).

Entries are encouraged from individuals, groups, partnerships and those working in large and small practices. Projects may be located anywhere in the world.

Judges may enter the awards, however they will not be able to judge their own entries.

All projects must have been launched or renovated between 1st January 2024 and 31st March 2025. Unless renovated, projects cannot enter again if they have been submitted in previous awards editions.

Projects may be entered in more than one category, entry fees are based on the number categories that you enter a project into.

All food and beverage spaces can be situated as stand alone or as part of any other complex or larger space such as hotel, airport, retail centre, office etc.

All entries will qualify for the best Restaurant/Bar for each of their five regions. Additionally two global prizes will be awarded to best Overall designed Restaurant & best Overall designed Bar. These are not ‘enterable’ categories in their own right.

The judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

If an entry is received after the closing date, the organizers reserve the right to refuse entry.

All submitted entries must be paid in full and refunds are solely at our discretion.

Requests to withdraw an entry will be accepted if made in writing to marco@restaurantandbardesignawards.com prior to the submission deadline of 1st June 2025, however all fees (including the registration fee) will not be refunded. After this date, projects may not be withdrawn.

All entries must follow the online format available.

The shortlist will be informed in the week commencing 4th August 2025, the Category Winners and Overall Winners will be announced at an innovative and exciting ceremony, attended by the world's top designers and operators at EPIK Dubai (UAE) on the 27th October 2025.

All shortlisted will be invited to attend the awards ceremony where the winners will be announced and receive their trophies (1 for the designer and 1 for the operator). If for any reason a Designer or Operator cannot attend the awards ceremony, they are still obligated to purchase their awards trophy, which will be shipped to them directly or collected at the ceremony by the other attending party.

The entrants for winning projects are responsible for the cost of the award trophies should one or more of either the designer and/or operator not be able to attend the awards ceremony.

Entrants agree they own or have permission to use the photographs submitted on an entry.

Entrants agree to project details and photographs being used across all forms of other media related to the awards, including press, social media, newsletters, websites etc.

Visualisations are strictly prohibited. Any entry that uses visualisations shall be disqualified from the awards and no refund will be given.

Restaurant & Bar Design Awards (Erbda Ltd) reserves the right to edit, reject or move any entry for any reason.

Restaurant & Bar Design Awards entrants as well as Awards night and Restaurant & Bar Design Awards Week attendees agree to having their names and company details being shared with our sponsors and partners.

We reserve the right to change the category for an entry if we believe the change benefits the entrant and their project.

In order to process your application we will be required to store the information you submit on our servers for the purposes of the competition. You can request from us at any time to have your data removed or to know what information we have stored against your personal details. You can find out more about how to request this information in our cookies and privacy policy.

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