Est. 2019 · Foundry Lane, Ember City

Fed byfire.

An upscale open-hearth kitchen. Whole-animal butchery, vegetables pulled from the embers, and a cellar built around small, low-intervention growers.

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Chapter One · Fire

It starts with the wood.

Oak for heat. Applewood for sweetness. The hearth is lit before noon and never let to die service through. Everything that leaves this kitchen has passed through flame.

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Chapter Two · Smoke

Then the smoke does its quiet work.

Low and slow, the smoke finds the fat and the bone. Brisket rests sixteen hours. Beets bury in the embers till their skins char and their hearts turn sweet as fruit.

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Chapter Three · Plate

What lands is memory.

Acid to sharpen, salt to wake, fat to carry. We compose the way the season composes itself — nothing forced, nothing rushed, nothing that didn't come through the fire first.

From the pass

The plates we're known by.

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Dry-Aged Côte de Bœuf
148

Dry-Aged Côte de Bœuf

45 days, bone marrow café de paris, charred shallot, for two

Charred Hispi Cabbage
19

Charred Hispi Cabbage

miso beurre blanc, hazelnut praline, brown butter

Hamachi Crudo
26

Hamachi Crudo

blood orange, fennel, green almond, chili oil

Smoked & Grilled Lamb Rack
52

Smoked & Grilled Lamb Rack

anchoïade, charred eggplant, sumac, mint

The Menu

Written around the fire, not the seasons.

Five-day dry age. Daily butchery. The menu shifts with what comes through the pass — these hold their place most nights.

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  • Oak-Smoked Steelheadcrème fraîche, charred leek ash, dill oil, rye crisp$24
  • Dry-Aged Côte de Bœuf45 days, bone marrow café de paris, charred shallot, for two$148
  • Charred Hispi Cabbagemiso beurre blanc, hazelnut praline, brown butter$19
  • Ember Old Fashionedsmoked bourbon, charred maple, black walnut bitters, oak chip$18

Private Events

The chef's table, beside the hearth.

Eight seats, one counter, the whole fire in front of you. Our private dining room takes twenty for seated, forty for standing — built for milestones, makers' dinners, and the kind of night that runs late.

The closest thing Ember City has to a temple of fire. You don't eat here so much as you sit witness to it.
— Ember City Journal · Critics' Picks

Find your seat

On Foundry Lane, past the old mill.

◆ Ember & Oak

118 Foundry Lane

Hours

  • Tuesday – Thursday5:30 – 10:00 pm
  • Friday – Saturday5:00 – 11:00 pm
  • Sunday5:00 – 9:30 pm
  • MondayClosed
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