Live-Fire Hearth
A 420° oak hearth sears, smokes and slow-roasts everything that leaves the pass. You'll smell it before you see it.
Cape Town · Wood-Fired · Est. 2019
Cooked over
Cooked over
open flame.
Nothing less.
A moody, candle-lit room on the edge of the Bo-Kaap where every plate meets the coals. Karoo lamb, line-caught fish and heritage produce — kissed by oak, smoke and fire.
The Room
Fire is our only
Fire is our only
ingredient we can't buy.
Ember & Oak is built around a single open hearth. No gas, no shortcuts — just seasoned Cape oak, a live fire tended from noon, and a kitchen that lets the flame do the talking.
Karoo & Coast
Free-range Karoo lamb, West Coast line-fish and heritage veg from farmers we know by name — sourced within our borders.
A Cellar for the Cape
Six hundred labels, deep in Swartland and Hemel-en-Aarde, poured by a sommelier who treats pairing as theatre.
Reservations
Pull up a seat by the fire.
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The Gallery
An evening, in frames.
From the glow of the hearth to the last spoon of dessert. Tap any frame to open it.
Voices
What lingers after the last course.
Tonight, by firelight
The coals are
The coals are
already lit.
Join us on Wale Street. Twelve tables, one fire, and an evening you'll be describing for weeks.
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