Small fire
Whole burnt aubergine
$19Goes into the coals in its skin and comes out forty minutes later. Raw tahini, pomegranate, pine nut oil.
- Vegan
Live fire · natural wine · Red Hook
Nothing leaves this kitchen without fire
Twelve tables around one wood-burning hearth on Van Brunt Street. The wine list turns over every week — we buy two cases from each grower, and then it's gone.
The story
Marisol grew up eleven blocks from here. She spent four years cooking in San Sebastián and came home with one idea: a kitchen with no gas. Everything goes over a single wood-burning hearth, built into a wall that used to hold a boat winch.
Theo holds the other half of the room. Two cases from each grower, never more — which is why the list is never the same two weeks running. Ask him what got opened tonight.
tables
wood-burning hearth
+small growers
Marisol Reyes
Chef and partner
The hearth
No gas here. Wood, and patience
Lit at three in the afternoon, still going when the last guest leaves. Bread, fish, vegetables, meat — everything comes out carrying smoke you cannot fake over a blue flame.
°°F at the coals
woods: olive, oak, almond
hours from first log to last
- Sliced beef with roast potatoes in a cast-iron pan
- Charred lamb ribs straight off the coals
- Sourdough loaves on a dark surface
- Dark bowls set on an unlit table
- Blistered corn off the grill
- A spread of small plates with figs and olives
- Rice and vegetables in a black pan
- A dessert with caramel poured over it on black
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From the fire
Three dishes stay. The rest is up to the market.
The board gets written at eleven, once the boxes are in and we know what we actually have. If something runs out at nine, it comes off this page the same night.
- Big fire
Whole fish over the fire
$62Whatever came off the truck this morning. Root vegetables, preserved lemon butter. Ask the waiter what came in.
- Gluten free
- Big fire
Lamb shoulder, six hours
$68Slow-roasted over oak, freekeh, sheep's yoghurt, chopped mint.
The bar
Two cases per grower, then it's gone
10 bottles open right now. When one runs out it comes off this list the same evening — the list is updated from the floor, not from memory.
- Sparkling
Pét-Nat Chardonnay
Wilder Fields
Chardonnay · Finger Lakes · 2024
Glass $17$68 - White
Dry Riesling
Stone Barn Cellars
Riesling · Finger Lakes · 2023
Glass $18$72 - White
Chenin Blanc
Domaine la Croisière
Chenin Blanc · Loire · 2022
Glass $19$78 - Orange
Skin-Contact Rebula
Kmetija Vrh
Rebula · Goriška Brda · 2023
Glass $18$74
The rooms
Three rooms, one fire
You can ask for an area when you book. If it's taken, the form will offer what is actually free — it won't save a request it can't keep.
The counter
10 seatsFacing the fire, walk-ins only. Best for one or two who want to watch the cooks work.
The room
24 seatsEight tables under the old timber beams. Two can be joined for a party of six.
The back yard
8 seatsOpen May to October, closed the first cold night. Worth asking for when you book.
Booking
The fire is lit by three and the room is full by seven.
A booking here holds an actual table the second it is confirmed — no DM, no callback, no “we’ll see what we can do.” It works at two in the morning, if that is when you remembered.
The restaurant closed for a whole evening, up to forty guests.