Meat & Wine Co., Southbank Melbourne

In South Africa there is a word, Ubuntu. a word that Mandela loved and that captured his greatest gift, his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye, a oneness that we achieve ourselves by sharing with others and caring for those around us.This giving and sharing is something that we try very hard to capture in each store. The menu and food offering talks to this idea of sharing by the way the menu is designed and the spaces within the restaurant echoes this in the careful layouts of various intimate, private, and more public spaces. To this end, each store has their own interpretation of a “BOMA”. In this case the entire restaurant’s ground floor and basement is expressed as two separate ‘BOMAS’ with a beautiful bespoke knotted and hand-woven rope tapestries designed by Roberto Zambri.