With plenty of stylish restaurants and bars up and down the country, this is your chance to see if your favourite venue will be included in the competition to find the best of the best. Whether you own a bar, a restaurant or are the designer genius behind one such location or design feature within a bar or restaurant, the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards are your chance to have your talent recognised. Don't miss being part of the inaugural awards. But its not just venues that get to have their say, if you are a fan of design you can vote for your favourite bar or restaurant too.

The shortlist for the awards has now been announced. For more information, click on the link below.

Restaurant and Bar Design Awards

Exclusive design
Some of the most stylish and unusual restaurant and bar design in the world can be found at UK venues and plenty of these are set to be some of the hottest contenders for the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards. Open to all UK venues, the free online entry system gives you the opportunity for your projects, products, restaurant or bar to benefit from the exposure of being a nominated venue.

Designer judging
Think your venue has what it takes to beat the rest? The Restaurant and Bar Design Awards will be judged by some of the world's most creative and world renowned names in design and style leaders. Restaurants and bars, projects and products will all be recognised by the judges who will be keeping a keen eye out for cutting edge design. Since the online voting opened, venues likes Zaha Hadid's new bar Home House have been nominated for the award. The winners will be decided with help from the general public too, so even if you are not a venue owner or designer, you can still have your say on the outcome of the cutting edge design awards.

Shortlist
Announced in February 2009, the shortlist for the awards is as follows:
Bar interior (other space)
Paramount, Whisky Mist at Zeta, Oddfellows Bar, Carbon, 1707 Wine Bar, Home House
Bar interior (stand alone)
The Hoxton Pony, Religion, The moose Bar, The Refinery, Babel
Restaurant interior (other space)
Filini, St Pancras Grand, Oddfellows Brasserie, Wahaca (Westfield), The Olde Bell Inn (Hurley)
Restaurant interior (stand alone)
Olivomare, Bangalore Express, Sakenohana, Byron Restaurant, Hereford Road
Identity
Paramount, Bob Bob Ricard, the Botanist, Cha Cha Moon, Princi
Exterior Space
The Deck, Oddfellows, East Beach Cafe, The Cock O Barton, St Pancras Grand - The Champagne Bar
Kitchen Space
The Bamboo Basket, Cha Cha Moon, YO! Sushi (White City), YO! Sushi (Nottingham), Oojam
Washroom Space
Olivomare, The Cock O Barton, Sakenohana, Le Gavroche, Oojam
Lighting Scheme
Paramount, Sakenohana, The Hoxton Pony, Sophies Steakhouse, Mechu.

Restaurant and Bar Design Awards ceremony
Once all the voting is over, the awards ceremony will see the winners crowned in a glamorous and innovative event on 27th April 2009. To be held at Village Underground in London, the awards will be presented in front of the creme de la creme of the UK's leading design professionals and pioneers in the restaurant and bar trade.

The Restaurant and Bar Design Awards are open for entries from Tuesday 7th October - Wednesday 31st December 2008. All nominees must been launched or redesigned between 1st April 2007 and 31st December 2008.

Entrants hail from some of the best restaurants and bars across the UK, including London, Brighton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff, Oxford, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Nottingham, Leicester, Leeds and Bournemouth. For more information on which restaurants and bars, projects and products have made it onto the shortlist, click on the link below.

Restaurant and Bar Design Awards