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2025 Award Winners

rd+d exists to share projects, examples and stories that educate and inspire. When the rd+d awards were launched nine years ago, our team wanted to highlight the projects that made readers proud and impressed our judges. This year’s winners did both! Read on to find out how.

2024 Award Winners

Let’s take a moment and celebrate these fabulous, functional designs judged to be among the best of the best in rd+d’s annual contest.

2023 Award Winners

There’s plenty to celebrate as the restaurant community continues to rebuild and apply important lessons learned over the last several years of upheaval. 

2022 Award Winners

Let’s take a moment and celebrate these fabulous, functional designs judged to be among the best of the best in rd+d’s annual contest.

2021 Award Winners

After the incredible challenges the hospitality community faced in 2020, celebrating the bright spots — the best projects and the teams that created them — feels more important than ever. With that in mind, the fifth annual rd+d awards highlight and celebrate excellence in restaurant design and concepting.

2020 Award Winners

The fourth annual rd+d awards are acelebration of our readers’ accomplishments.

2019 James Beard Awards Unveils Best Restaurant Design Winners

The 2019 James Beard Awards were Monday, May 6, 2019, and four restaurants took home awards for restaurant design.

James Beard Foundation Announces 2019 Restaurant Design Nominees

The James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for the 2019 James Beard Awards which covers nearly 60 categories, including Restaurant Design.

James Beard Foundation Names Canlis Its 2019 Design Icon

The James Beard Foundation named Canlis in Seattle, Wash., as its 2019 Design Icon Award winner.

2019 Award Winners

Check out all the winners in rd+d's third annual awards!

2018 Award Winners

rd+d’s panel of judges spent an entire day reviewing submissions, taking notes, asking questions, advocating for their favorites and sometimes changing each other’s minds in order to narrow the entries down to these chosen few. Projects were scored based on submission criteria and the judges’ knowledge and experience.

2017 Award Winners

The rd+d awards honor professionals doing great work in restaurant development and design, of course, but they also allow us to get closer to our readers, hear their stories and learn about the projects that make them proud.

rd+d Awards: A Chat with the Victors

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DIFFA's Dining by Design Inspiration Gallery

The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) just wrapped its 20th annual Dining by Design fundraiser. It raises nearly a million dollars annually for HIV/AIDS services and charities. Co-located with the Architectural Digest Design Show since 2009, Dining by Design brings together top designers and brands to create inspiring environments. There were 32

Paisano’s Pizza to Open Nine New Locations in D.C.

Gourmet pizza franchise Paisano’s Pizza has opened the first of nine planned new locations in Washington, D.C. through franchise partners Antoine Chahine, Ron Trowbridge and Daniel Bechara.

Golf Club Gets Cowboy’s Themed Restaurant

How to Win a James Beard Award: A Q&A with James Biber

It all starts with having a great design, but for those who dream of winning a James Beard Foundation Outstanding Restaurant Design Award, there's a bit more to it. First off, it requires taking the time to enter the contest. Doing so involves preparation and investment, and now's the time to plan for that: The call for entries in the 2016 program begins this October. For insights on the awards and tips on what makes for a successful entry,

Workshop Kitchen + Bar, Brindille Designers Win James Beard Awards

Restaurant designers were among the culinary world's glitterati feted at the 2015 James Beard Foundation Awards gala, held May 4 in Chicago. Those taking home top awards for outstanding recent restaurant design or renovation projects were Michael Abboud of SOMA Architects in New York, for Workshop Kitchen + Bar (76 seats or over), and James Gorski and Tom Nahabedian of ...

James Beard Foundation Announces 2015 Outstanding Restaurant Design Award Nominees

At a breakfast hosted this week at the James Beard House in New York City, nominees for the Foundation's 2015 Outstanding Restaurant Design Awards were announced, along with those in 58 other award categories. Winners will be announced at the James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception on May 4 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

SHED is a 2014 James Beard Outstanding Design Award Winner

SHED, a "modern grange hall, cafe, fermentation bar and marketplace" was named 2014 James Beard Outstanding Design Award winner in the 76 seats and over category at a ceremony held May 5 at New York's Lincoln Center.

Barrel House Tavern Wins IIDA Award

Sausalito, Calif.-based Barrel House Tavern took top honors in the "Play" category in the 2014 International Interior Design Association Northern California chapter's awards program.

Belcampo Meat Co. Wins Best New Concept Award

The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA | LA) announced the winners of the ninth annual Restaurant Design Awards during the Dwell on Design exposition in late June. Winning projects were selected from among 16 finalists in 3 categories: Restaurant, Café/Bar and Lounge/Nightclub. The jury was so captivated by one entry, in particular, that they also created a new "Best New Concept Award."