diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b47ba24..f727b79 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 * Optimize `join.restrict`, split predicate and push down the tree.
 
+* Make sure restrict.restrict keeps applying further optimizations down
+  the tree.
+
 ## 0.21.0 - 2023-05-18
 
 * BREAKING: minimal version for ruby is now 2.7. Ruby 2.4 and 2.6 have
diff --git a/lib/bmg/operator/restrict.rb b/lib/bmg/operator/restrict.rb
index 9f14998..ed9345a 100644
--- a/lib/bmg/operator/restrict.rb
+++ b/lib/bmg/operator/restrict.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def to_ast
     protected
 
       def _restrict(type, predicate)
-        Restrict.new(type, @operand, @predicate & predicate)
+        @operand.restrict(@predicate & predicate)
       end
 
     protected ### inspect
diff --git a/spec/unit/operator/test_restrict.rb b/spec/unit/operator/test_restrict.rb
index 57a4784..a4c9805 100644
--- a/spec/unit/operator/test_restrict.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/operator/test_restrict.rb
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ module Operator
     describe Restrict do
 
       let(:data) {
-        [
+        Relation.new([
           { a: 1,  b: 2 },
           { a: 11, b: 2 }
-        ]
+        ])
       }
 
       subject {