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Our Story

Built Around The Fire

How a single idea — strip cooking back to its oldest form — became a forty-seat dining room and an open kitchen.

Ember and Oak dining room

Our Story

Built Around The Fire

Ember & Oak started with one idea: strip cooking back to its oldest form and do it properly. Every dish that leaves the kitchen passes over live coals or through the wood oven before it reaches the table.

The dining room seats forty, the kitchen is open, and the menu changes with what's in season — not what's easy to prep in advance.

We source directly from a handful of local farms, a day-boat fishmonger, and a single butcher we've worked with since day one. Nothing arrives frozen, and nothing sits in the walk-in longer than it has to.

What began as a single wood oven and a folding table of regulars has grown into a restaurant that still runs on the same principle: fewer ingredients, better fire, more attention.

The People Behind It

Meet The Team

Portrait of Head Chef

Marcus Webb

Head Chef

Trained across three Michelin-starred kitchens before deciding all he really wanted was an open fire and a shorter menu. Runs the pass every service.

Portrait of Sous Chef

Elena Foster

Sous Chef & Pastry

Builds the dessert menu around whatever's overripe and about to turn — her burnt cheesecake has barely left the menu since opening week.

Portrait of General Manager

Priya Shah

General Manager & Sommelier

Keeps the floor running and the wine list short, seasonal, and mostly low-intervention. Ask her for a pairing, not a list.

What We Believe

Values & Sourcing

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Live-Fire Technique

Every dish crosses coals or the wood oven at least once. No induction, no shortcuts — just heat, timing, and control.

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Local & Seasonal

We buy from a handful of farms, a day-boat fishmonger, and one butcher. The menu changes with what they bring us, not the other way round.

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Nothing Wasted

Trim becomes stock, bones become jus, and off-cuts turn up as staff meal. Fire cooking rewards using the whole ingredient.

Come See The Kitchen

The pass is open and the fire is always going. Book a table and taste what we're about.

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