Live-fire dining · Edinburgh

Ember & Oak

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The Tasting Menu

One menu,
cooked over one fire.

It changes when the season does, and not before. Six courses, sent in order, the same for every seat in the room.

Wood-oven flatbread, bone-marrow butter, wild garlic.

The first thing out of the oven — torn by hand, eaten with your fingers, before anything else arrives.

Cured sea trout, charred cucumber, buttermilk, dill.

Cured for a day, then held over the coals for under a minute — long enough to warm the edge, not to cook it.

Fire-roasted beetroot, smoked crème fraîche, toasted walnut.

Beets buried in the embers until they give, then dressed while they are still too warm to hold.

Dry-aged ribeye, bone marrow, charred leek.

Forty days on the bone, cooked over oak, rested longer than it is grilled. One cut, carved at the counter.

Hay-smoked cheese, quince, black-pepper honey.

One cheese, chosen the morning it is served and smoked in the same hearth as the meat.

Burnt-honey custard, brown butter, oat.

Honey taken just past caramel, to the edge of bitter, which is where it belongs.

“We cook one menu, over one fire, and we don’t change it until the season tells us to.”

Elias Warde · Chef

The Room

Twenty-four seats around the fire.

Ember & Oak is one room and one fire. Twenty-four seats wrap a low counter around an open hearth, close enough that you watch each course finished over oak and fruit-wood before it reaches you.

There is no second kitchen to disappear into. The fire is lit at four, worked down to coals by seven, and kept until the last plate. What comes off it depends on the wood and the day’s market — which is the point.

Seating: Twenty-four, at the counter
Hours: Wed–Sun · one seating, 7pm
Where: Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh

Reservations

Reserve a seat.

One seating each evening, Wednesday through Sunday. Reservations open sixty days ahead; the menu is fixed for the night, and full payment holds the table.

For same-week tables, a change to your booking, or anything the form can’t hold — call +44 131 496 0184, Tuesday to Sunday, from noon.

Ember & Oak

One menu,cooked over one fire.

Twenty-four seats around the fire.

Reserve a seat.

One menu,
cooked over one fire.