DINER: Design Renderings Of The New “Wild Rice” Coming This Fall To The River Market

The first conceptual renderings from new Wild Rice architect/designer Marianne Amodio have just landed on my desk. They give some tasty flavour to our imaginings of what the anticipated restaurant – slated for the River Market in New West this Fall – is going to look like (learn more about it here). The drawings depict the lounge area: on the left is the open kitchen; straight ahead is what is being described to me as one of the ‘living walls’; and on the right is the bar. Top marks to Marianne for including a still of a monkey chilling in a hot spring on one TV above the bar and what appears to be a screen grab of Alexandre Burrows celebrating a goal on the other. Take a closer look after the jump…

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