by Andrew Morrison | For the last few days Alexandra Schulze of Wild Bunch, Ricky Alvarez from Tinto Creative and the team from Milltown have been giving the rear dining room at Wildebeest a major makeover. They were finished just in time for reopening last night. For a refresher, this is what the area used to look like:

Those communal tables are all gone, replaced by a bunch of connectable, sectioned deuces and the very striking Table #69, a new corner six-top that definitely qualifies as a Gangster Table…

It might just supplant Table #41 as the restaurant’s best, don’t you think? Topping it all off (literally) is a Wild Bunch floral installation that sees roses, spray roses, gypsophila and seeded eucalyptus (1,295 stems in all) interspersed with lights suspended from the ceiling…

The end result is an achievement that softens the existing aesthetic beautifully. It definitely made me think this is the way it always should have been. I looked in a few times during the restaurant’s holiday hiatus and snapped a few shots during the transition. Take a look:

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