Ember · Wood-fired & natural wine Wed–Sun · 5–11pm · Asheville, NC
Live fire  ·  Open hearth  ·  Dinner only

Ember

Everything touches fire.

A small room and a big hearth in the heart of Asheville. Dinner is cooked over oak and coals — nothing leaves the kitchen untouched by flame or smoke. Eat what's good tonight, drink something alive, stay a while.

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The Hearth

over oak & coals
  • Charred hispi cabbage 14 anchovy butter, burnt lemon, a great deal of smoke
  • Smoked rainbow trout 16 crème fraîche, pickled shallot, charred rye toast
  • Bone-marrow flatbread 13 blistered in the coals, wild garlic, sea salt
  • Fire-pit mushrooms 19 smoked egg yolk, thyme, brown butter, toasted hazelnut
  • Whole grilled bream 32 fennel, green chili oil, a wedge of fire-roasted lemon
  • 45-day ribeye, over coals 58 bone-fat potatoes, watercress — built to share
  • Burnt honey & buttermilk 11 oak-smoked ice cream, the last warm thing of the night
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