How to Design Bars That Work for Everyone
restaurant development + design [Unofficial]
May 13, 2026
Tobin Ellis believes that designing a stunning, immersive, right-sized, well-placed, highly functional bar should not be that hard. What makes it hardest is the mindset that pervades nearly all design and development: bars are afterthoughts. Here he expands on these thoughts in an excerpt from his book “Bar Design Essentials: How to Design Bars That Work for Everyone.”
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