Fine Dining · Kuwait

Every plate, touched by fire.

An open-flame kitchen and a room built for slow, unhurried evenings. No tasting-menu theatrics — just fire, good produce, and time.

Est. 2024 Open-flame kitchen 28 seats
Our Philosophy

Fire is not a method. It's the ingredient.

Everything at Ember passes over live coals before it reaches the table — the bread, the vegetables, the fish. We built the kitchen around a single wood-fired hearth, and the menu around what it can do.

Twenty-eight seats. A short, changing menu. No rush to turn the table.

Explore the Menu
Flames rising from the wood-fired hearth in Ember's kitchen
The hearth — lit at 4pm, every day
01

It seasons.

Smoke is the only seasoning we add before salt. Everything after that, the coals do on their own.

02

It sets the pace.

A hearth cooks when it is ready, not when a ticket says so. That is why the menu stays short.

03

It lights the room.

There is no spotlight over the pass. The fire is the brightest thing in here, and the room was built around that.

Tonight

The menu, in brief.

Full Menu

From the CoalsSmall plates

Hearth bread, cultured butter 2.500KD
Grilled octopus, burnt onion 7.500KD

Over the FireMains

Whole hammour, fennel 16.000KD
Lamb shoulder, seven hours 18.500KD

AfterSweet

Burnt honey custard, date syrup 4.500KD
Smoked chocolate, olive oil, sea salt 5.000KD
Atmosphere

A room lit mostly by the coals.

Seven frames from an ordinary Thursday service. Drag to move through them.

Ember's dining room before service, chairs set under low lamps
The room, before service
A table set with glassware under low warm light
Table four
A dark ceramic bowl plated at the pass
From the coals
Guests seated at a table late in the evening
Thursday, late
Skewers and vegetables cooking over open coals
Over the fire
A chef finishing a plate at the kitchen pass
Plating
Guest Book

What people say after.

We sat down at eight and looked up at midnight. Nobody once made us feel we should be leaving.
DanaKuwait City
The bread comes straight out of the coals, and everything that arrives after it makes sense.
YousefSalmiya
I have eaten a lot of menus that promise fire. This is the one where the fire is doing the actual cooking.
MaryamHawally
A dish plated at Ember, lit by low warm lamps before service
Visit

Salmiya, one block off the Gulf.

Tuesday – Thursday
7:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Friday – Saturday
6:30 pm – 12:30 am
Sunday
7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Monday
Closed
Address Block 9, Salem Al Mubarak Street, Salmiya, Kuwait
Reservations +965 2222 0148
Schematic locator: Ember sits on Salem Al Mubarak Street, one block inland from Gulf Road in Salmiya. ARABIAN GULF GULF ROAD SALEM AL MUBARAK ST EMBER
Valet from 7pm · Parking on Block 9 Open in Maps
Reservations

Twenty-eight seats, two sittings a night.

We hold a handful of tables for walk-ins, but the room fills early in the week. Booking ahead is the safer plan.

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