Ember & Oak — Wood-Fire Steakhouse
Est. 2026 · Capitol Hill

Ember &Oak

Wood-fire steakhouse. Cooked over live oak.

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The Cuts

Fire · Salt · Oak
01

Bone-In Ribeye

Forty-day dry-aged, seared hard over glowing oak coals, finished in bone-marrow butter.

$68
20 oz · Serves one
02

Coal Porterhouse

Buried in the embers, crust of cracked pepper and grey salt, rested by the fire.

$96
32 oz · Serves two
03

Smoked Short Rib

Twelve hours over hickory until it falls from the bone, glazed in charred-onion jus.

$44
16 oz · Off the bone
Our Story

Fire is the oldest
language we know

Ember & Oak began with a single question — what does dinner taste like when nothing stands between the meat and the flame? No gas, no shortcuts. Just live oak, salt, and the patience to let the coals do the talking.

2019

The Oak

A white oak came down in a Cascade windstorm. We hauled it home, split it, and let it season two winters in the rain — the wood that still feeds the hearth today.

2021

The Hearth

We built the open fire by hand on Capitol Hill — firebrick, steel, and a grate that cranks up and down over the coals to chase the perfect char.

2024

The First Forty

Forty covers a night, cooked entirely over embers, by invitation only. We learned the fire's moods — when to push it, when to wait.

2026

Ember & Oak

The doors opened for good. Same fire, same oak, a few more seats at the counter — and a standing invitation to pull up close.

— Hana Reyes & the Ember & Oak crew

Reservations

Pull up
to the fire

Dinner Tuesday through Sunday, from five o'clock. The chef's counter seats eight, facing the open hearth — booked two weeks out.