COMPILED BY Lindi Brownell Meiring
The winners of the 2019 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards have been announced. This year, Johannesburg’s Alice & Fifth, designed by TristanPlessisStudio, has won the award for Best Overall Restaurant, a first for a South African design studio.
“As a South African designer to be in the same room as my international design icons is an honour in itself but to be recognised on a global level in front of peers that I’ve looked up to since the beginning of my career is almost unbelievable,” says Tristan. “It also re-affirms what I believe in: the potential within South African design. Not only can we compete at an international level but also lead the field.”
Best Overall Bar was awarded to SPINE Beirut in Lebanon, designed by Gatserelia Design.
Below, find a selection of this year’s category winners, including Café, Lighting, Colour and Ceiling.
UNITED KINGDOM RESTAURANT: Hide – London, UK (Design: These White Walls + Lusted Green)
Image credit: Andrew Meredith
UNITED KINGDOM BAR: Dirty Martini – Birmingham, UK (Design: Grapes Design)
Image credit: Michael Franke
THE AMERICAS RESTAURANT: Europea – Montréal, Canada (Design: Provenchar_Roy)
Image credit: Laurent Guerin
THE AMERICAS BAR: Mamba – Buenos Aires, Argentina (Design: Hitzig Millitello Arquitectos + MFC arquitectos)
Image credit: Federico Kulekdjian
AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC BAR: Hotel Esplanade – St Kilda, Australia (Design: Technē Architecture + Interior Design + Eleisha Gray)
AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC RESTAURANT: Wagaya – Lidcombe, Australia (Design: Span Design)
Image credit: Andrew Worssan & Jayden Huang
ASIA RESTAURANT: Song – Guangzhou, China (Design: Republican Metropolis Architecture)
Image credit: Jack Qin
ASIA BAR: Bar Lotus – Shanghai, China (Design: Office AIO)
Image credit: Yujie Liu
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA BAR: SPINE Beirut – Beirut, Lebanon (Design: Gatserella Design)
Image credit: Eva Szumilas
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA RESTAURANT: Alice & Fifth – Johannesburg, South Africa (Design: TristanDuPlessis Studio)
Image credit: courtesy of TristanPlessisStudio
EUROPE RESTAURANT: LIÒN – Rome, Italy (Design: COLLIDANIELARCHITETTO)
Image credit: Matteo Piazza
EUROPE BAR: Galaxy Bar – Moscow, Russian Federation (Design: Maxim Kashin + Monoloko)
Image credit: Dmitry Chebanenko
LIGHTING: Suzue – Tokyo, Japan (Design: supermaniac.inc)
SURFACE INTERIORS: New York Burger – Madrid, Spain (Proyecto Singular)
CEILING: Icha Chateau – Shanghai, China (Design: Spacemen)
Image credit: Min Chen Xuan
IDENTITY: Italian Artisans – Melbourne, Australia (Design: ERD)
Image credit: Lou D’Angelo
MURALS & GRAFFITI: The Bar at Hotel Zachary – Chicago, United States (Design: Studio K Creative)
Image credit: David Burk
LUXURY: The Top of Cloud – Xi’an, China (Design: RSAA / Büro Ziyu Zhuang)
Image credit: Ting Wang
CAFE: Cardboard – Mumbai, India (Design: Nudes)
COLOUR: Hey Yo – Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Design: Design Action & Associates)
BIOPHILIC DESIGN: Nido – San José del Cabo, Mexico (Design: Arquitectura de Interiores)
POP-UP: Brasserie 2050 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Design: Overtreders W)
Image credit: Jorn van Eck
IN ANOTHER SPACE: The Vaults Parlour – Dublin, Ireland (Design: Kingston Lafferty Design)
Image credit: Barbara Corsico
STANDALONE: C.C. Babcoq – Cronulla, Australia (Design: Tom Mark Henry)
Image credit: Damian Bennett
FAST CASUAL: Pizza 22 – Moscow, Russian Federation (DA architecture bureau)
Image credit: Sergey Melnikov
HOTEL: Louix Louis – Toronto, Canada (Design: DesignAgency)
Image credit: Brandon Barre
MULTIPLE: Saké – Manly, Australia (Design: Luchetti Krelle)
HERITAGE BUILDING – Beefbar – Paris, France (Design: Humbert & Poyet)
Image credit: Francis Amiand
Missed last year’s winning designs? See more here. For more information about the awards, visit restaurantandbardesignawards.com.
