An open-fire kitchen at full heat, flames rising off the grill into the dark

Cinder

Fire first. Everything else second.

A wood-fire bistro with no gas line and no regrets. Everything on the board has met the flame — some of it briefly, some of it for forty-five days' worth of waiting.

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The Board

Tonight, over coals

The menu lives on one board because the kitchen lives around one fire. It changes when the market does — the heat never does.

Whole Leek in Ash

14

Buried in the embers until the outside is sacrificial. Peeled at the table, brown-butter hazelnut underneath.

Smoked Beets, Charred Yoghurt

15

Three hours in oak smoke, finished on the plancha. The yoghurt is scorched on purpose. Trust us.

Fire-Roasted Mussels, Pine Butter

19

Thrown straight onto the coals in their shells. They open when they're ready, not before.

Coal-Baked Flatbread, Bone-Marrow Drippings

12

Blistered against the firebox wall. The drippings come from whatever's been turning over the flame that afternoon.

Half Chicken, Brick & Birch

28

Pressed under a fire-warmed brick over birch coals. Skin like glass, smoke all the way to the bone.

45-Day Ribeye Over Coals

64

Dry-aged in-house, cooked close to the embers and rested longer than you'd like. Salt, fire, patience. For two, technically.

Burnt Honey & Rye

11

Honey taken right to the edge of bitter, set over toasted rye crumb and ember-smoked cream. The fire does dessert too.

The Room

Twenty-two seats, one glow

No music over the fire — the fire is the soundtrack. The best seats face the coals; the rest face the people facing the coals.

A finished dish plated in the glow of the open kitchen, char marks visible
The PassEvery plate crosses two metres of open heat before it reaches you. Nothing leaves the kitchen lukewarm. Nothing ever has.
The bar at CINDER lit low, bottles catching the firelight
The BarSmoked-honey old fashioneds, natural wine that can stand up to char, and a stool with a direct line of sight to the flames.

We cook with one ingredient: heat. Wood gives it, iron holds it, time shapes it. There is no dial in this kitchen — only distance from the coals, and the judgement to know it. Everything else on your plate is just something brave enough to stand near the fire.

— The kitchen at CINDER

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The counter seats eight

Two services a night, Wednesday through Sunday. The counter puts you an arm's length from the fire — close enough to hear it think.

Wed – Sun First service · 17:30 Second service · 20:30

Walk-ins take the bar. The fire doesn't take reservations from anyone.

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