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Mike Mora Shares Three Best Practices for Restaurant Design

After helping his firm secure a 2020 James Beard Award for restaurant design, Mike Mora sat down with rd+d to share some best practices.

Designer Shares Top Restaurant Trends from 2020

Sara Talleux, principal, Simeone Deary Design Group, connects with clients and communities to revitalize storied spaces. Guided by a passion for the perspectives and objectives of others, she harvests details of the past and guides hospitality brands and properties into the future.

Reader’s Choices: Michael Lawless and Keiko Matsumoto

Designers Michael Lawless and Keiko Matsumoto highlight some of their favorite restaurant design trends right now.

Reader’s Choices: James Staicoff

James Staicoff, IIDA, director of hospitality for Oculus Inc., began his interior design career nearly 40 years ago in St. Louis before relocating to Portland, Ore., in 1992.

Reader's Choices: Jerry van Rooy on Restaurant Design

Jerry van Rooy, design director and founding partner of VANROOY Design, offers his top trends and tips in restaurant design.

Designing for Millennials with Gensler's Dawn Arcieri

With more than 30 years of experience in food and beverage design, Dawn Arcieri, NCIDQ, RID, senior associate at Gensler, has worked on more than 200 restaurants ranging from small-scale dining to prototype roll-outs for fast and casual restaurants alike.

Reader's Choices: Griz Dwight, LEED AP, AIA, principal and owner of Grizform Design Architects on his Favorite Restaurant Design Trends

Raised in a barn built by hand in Vermont, Griz Dwight, LEED AP, AIA, principal and owner of Grizform Design Architects, has loved architecture since he was young.

Reader's Choices: Michael Poris of McIntosh Poris Shares His Favorite Restaurant Design Trends Right Now

As an expert in restaurant design, Michael Poris, AIA, is principal of McIntosh Poris Associates, a Michigan-based firm that provides architecture, interior design and urban planning services across a variety of disciplines, including hospitality, retail, residential, multifamily, commercial, adaptive reuse and institutional.

Reader’s Choices: David Tracz, AIA, LEED AP

David Tracz, AIA, LEED AP, //3877, outlines his favorite restaurant trends.

Reader's Choices: Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh is a project architectural designer at Aria Group Architects, leading design for one of the four studios in the office.

Reader’s Choices: Deborah L. English

Deborah L. English, IIDA, CCID, founder and president, D L English Design in Pasadena, Calif., specializes in designing destinations within places, often dining spaces in grocery stores. Her 40-person firm has completed hundreds of projects for companies such as Whole Foods Market, Irvine Company, Bristol Farms and Soriana in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Reader’s Choices: Allison C. Cooke

Allison C. Cooke, partner and director of Hospitality Design at CORE architecture + design, inc., leads the firm’s restaurant work while also providing direction for CORE’s interiors of retail spaces, libraries, residential buildings, office buildings and hotels.

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Reader's Choices: Stephen Francis Jones

Stephen Francis Jones served as in-house architect for the Wolfgang Puck Food Company before launching his firm, SFJones Architects, in 1996. He has designed restaurants, hotels and spas all around the world: Spago and MB Post in California, the retro chain Lucky Strike Lanes, Java House franchises in Kenya, and many others.

Reader's Choices: Meet Paul Valverde and Miguel Vicens of Coeval Studio

Paul Valverde and Miguel Vicéns formed Coevál Studio in Dallas in 2007, a full-service design firm with a focus on retail and hospitality where the duo now serve as creative directors. In the decade since the firm’s founding, the pair have become well known for their playful, profitable restaurant designs, including Dallas’ Happiest Hour,

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Reader's Choices: Chris Mercier

Mercier shares a few of the concepts, products and materials that (fer) studiochose to bring Officine Brera to life.

A Look at Earls Kitchen + Bar’s Chicago Location

Canadian chain Earls Kitchen + Bar continues its expansion into the U.S. with each restaurant showcasing a unique design.

Joy District Opens in Chicago’s River North Neighborhood

Chicago’s bustling River North neighborhood saw a new addition to its nightlife scene with Joy District, a new, multi-level restaurant and lounge from the team behind Hubbard Inn, Barn & Company and Pomp & Circumstance.

Reader's Choices: Douglas Fu

As project manager and senior designer at Puccini Group, the global hospitality concept and design firm headquartered in San Francisco, Douglas Fu has designed and managed large-scale hotel and restaurant design projects from Southern California to Ras al-Khaimah. In addition to his nearly 20 years of experience designing hospitality interiors, Doug is a self-proclaimed foodie and the proud father of two amazing

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