Voting in the year’s BRAVO awards starts on 10th February 2026. Voting ends on March 10th. Winners will be announced on 31st March.
Voting in this year’s BRAVO awards ends on March 10th. Winners will be announced on 31st March.
All BRAVO voting is online. You will need to create verify your vote using your email, Instagram or Facebook account. Start your voting journey by visiting the BRAVO homepage.
Each person has 18 votes, one for each category. You don’t have to use all your votes but it is nice if you do.
All categories and their descriptions for BRAVO 2026 can be found here.
These are all the voting pages for the 18 different categories: Best Brighton and Hove restaurant, Best Sussex Restaurant, Best Brighton and Hove Pub, Best Sussex Pub, Best Brunch, Best Cafe, Best Sweets & Treats, Sustainability Champions, Plant Champions, Best Cocktail, Best Value, Best Lunch, Best Sunday Roast, Best International Cuisine, Best Team, Best Wine List, Best Takeaway and Most Family Friendly.
Yes.
A Brighton and Hove business can be featured in any of 16 voting categories, they cannot be featured in
Best Sussex Restaurant and Best Sussex Pub.
Sussex venues can be featured ONLY in these voting categories: Best Sussex Restaurant, Best Sussex Pub, Best Team, Best Roast, Best Wine List and Sustainability Champions.
Venues can be nominated in up to 4 BRAVO categories.
If a venue has completed the Sustainability Checklist, they can also be entered into the Sustainability Champions category, bringing their total to 5 categories.
This fifth category is only available to venues that have submitted the Sustainability Checklist.
The BRAVOs are designed to celebrate the diverse and vibrant local and independent hospitality community here in Brighton, Hove and Sussex.
Any Restaurant, Bar, Pub or Cafe can be nominated and customers can show them some love and support by voting for them. If there is a venue you would like to see featured but you cannot find it, then get in touch.
For any national chains entering the BRAVOs, we prefer to focus only on those with 5 or fewer venues.
If you have participated in the BRAVO Awards previously, then you don’t need to re-submit your details for registration.
If you are a new venue or haven’t taken part in the BRAVO Awards before, then please tell us about your venue by submitting details on this online BRAVO venues form.
The form requests the following details, so have them to hand:
It is also really helpful if you tell us your name and give us a mobile number so we can phone you if anything isn’t clear.
Encouraging your customers to vote for you in the BRAVO Awards is key to your success.
We have provided you with promotional material you can use.
And we’ve put together some top tips and creative ideas to promote your venue as well as ready made material for your social media and newsletters.
Every year we prepare a variety of materials you can use for print, on your website and on social media. Please feel free to use any of these items to help encourage people to vote for you. Whether it is a QR code on your menus or the colour code and font for something you want to design yourself, we have got you covered.
Order beautiful BRAVO promotional materials customised with your unique QR code via our 2026 BRAVO print partner, Print Lord.
You can subscribe to the emails about the BRAVOS, as well as all our newsletters here.
Our BRAVOS emails are only sent out during the BRAVO period and are specifically focused on the BRAVOS themselves.
We also publish a monthly industry newsletter – Tip Jar – and have a weekly consumer newsletter.
We also organise Sustainability Workshops and events for Women in Hospitality.
Yes, you can email us on hello@restaurantsbrighton.couk
To find out who the winners were in the 2025 BRAVOs please check out the Restaurants Brighton page.
There is also a hall of fame featuring all the past winners.
Discover what winning a BRAVO means to all the 2024 winners and what impact winning a BRAVO had on their business.
The BRAVOs are run and organised by the team at Restaurants Brighton.
We couldn’t run the BRAVOs without the generosity and support of our sponsors. Please check them out and show them some love too by finding out what they can do and if they can help you!
The 2026 sponsors in full are:
Restaurants Brighton, University of Brighton, Woodhouse Butchery, Woodfire Camping, Alliance South East, Designs Woodcraft, Cheesehut, The Menu Partners, Goldstone Rum, Harriet’s of Hove, Preston Insurance, First Table, Visit Brighton, The List, Brighton Fringe, Prept, Sussex Suppliers and Restaurants Brighton Vouchers.
To get in touch about how to be a sponsor for BRAVO please email us: eat@restaurantsbrighton.co.uk
