THE BRAVO Awards this year commence on Tuesday 4th February 2025. Voting lasts for 6 weeks and ends on 14th March. Winners are announced on 3rd April.
All BRAVO voting is online and requires that you create a user account using your email, Instagram or Facebook. Start your voting journey by visiting the BRAVO homepage.
Each person has 18 votes and can vote once in each category. You don’t have to vote 18 times, you decide how many votes you wish to make.
All categories and their descriptions for BRAVO 2025 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, Brews and Bakes, Most Sustainable, 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.
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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 and Most Sustainable.
Any venue can only be nominated in a maximum of 4 categories.
Venues can be nominated in a maximum of 4 BRAVO categories. However, if a venue has completed the Sustainability Checklist, they qualify for an additional entry into the Most Sustainable category—bringing their total to 5 categories.
A venue can only be in 5 categories if Most Sustainable is one of them and the Sustainability Checklist has been submitted. This ensures that sustainability-focused venues get the recognition they deserve for their commitment to greener practices.
The BRAVOs are designed to celebrate the diverse and vibrant local and independent hospitality community here in Brighton, Hove and Sussex.
Any Restaurant, 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 nice 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! To help you make the most of the voting campaign, we’ve put together some top tips and creative ideas to promote your venue and boost your chances.
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 2025 BRAVO print partner Print Lord.
To find out who the winners were in the 2024 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 2025 sponsors in full are Uber Eats, Recorra, Woodhouse Butchery, Love Food Share Food, The menu Partners, Cecily English Travel, Alliance South East, Woodfire Camping, The Cheese Hut, Preston Insurance Brokers, The List by Tom Surgey, Designs Woodcraft, Kirsti Davidson Restaurants Brighton, BHFP, Brilliant Brighton, Visit Brighton and Prept.
To get in touch about how to be a sponsor for BRAVO please email us: eat@restaurantsbrighton.co.uk
