The EMBER dining room at night, with the open grill glowing at the back of the kitchen

Grill & cocktail bar — Ashgate Quarter

Everything is
cooked over fire.

One hearth, lit at four. A short European menu that changes when the produce does.

Tuesday to Sunday, from 17:00

17 Kilnwharf Lane

A grill first, a bar second, and a room that keeps people well past the last course.

Sixty seats, low light, sandstone walls that were already here. The kitchen is open to the room, so dinner arrives with the sound of it.

Take a table for the whole evening, or a stool at the bar for snacks off the grill and one very good cocktail.

A dry-aged ribeye on the bone, charred and rested on a stoneware plate with grilled leeks and carrots — Dry-aged ribeye for two — 74

From the fire

The grill writes the menu

Wood and charcoal, no gas. What is good that week goes on the board; what is not comes off. Fish whole, vegetables straight in the embers, beef aged on the bone and cut to order.

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Three seared scallops with cauliflower purée, grilled asparagus and herb oil on a speckled plate — Seared scallops, cauliflower — 29

A chef's hands finishing a plate of grilled asparagus and potatoes at the pass, with the fire burning behind

The kitchen

Nothing leaves the pass without meeting the flame

Mara Aldenhoff runs the fire — fifteen years of live-fire cooking through Copenhagen and Lisbon, now spent on one hearth and a short list of growers within a morning's drive.

More about the kitchen

The dining room during evening service, copper pendants over dark tables and a fire burning at the far wall

The room

Built dark on purpose

Blackened steel, brass lamps kept low, and enough space between tables to hold a conversation. The fire sits at the end of the room; the best four tables face it.

A table for two laid with linen napkins, wine glasses and a lit brass candlestick — Table 12, by the hearth

The bar

Twelve stools,
no reservations

Smoke, bitter, citrus. The list is built from what the grill is already using — burnt honey, charred lemon, ember sugar. Held back for walk-ins every night, and open until one on Friday and Saturday.

See the cocktail list