Ember is a fully mobile, open-air restaurant built around live-fire cooking and chef-driven menus. We partner with farms, breweries, and wineries across Connecticut to create destination dinners—seasonal, modern, and designed for the setting. Expect bold flavors, local ingredients, and a dining experience that feels like a night out in the middle of something beautiful
Curious where Ember is setting in next?
Explore upcoming residencies and ticketed events as Ember moves through farms, vineyards, and open spaces across Connecticut.
Planning a private gathering, wedding, or celebration?
Ember offers private, location-driven dining experiences built around the season and the setting.
I’ve spent my career working in restaurants across Connecticut, learning what makes a place truly resonate. Over time, I realized the meals that stayed with me weren’t defined by technique alone — they were shaped by the season and the setting.
Ember is my way of bringing that feeling back.
It started with a simple idea: dinner should feel like a gathering — thoughtful, seasonal, and rooted in its surroundings.
So we built a fully mobile restaurant designed to operate on farms, at breweries, and alongside vineyards — places that already have character and a deep connection to the land. We move with the seasons and build menus around what’s being grown, raised, and crafted right here.
For us, sourcing locally isn’t a talking point. It’s a relationship. It means working directly with farms, walking the property, understanding the product, and allowing that to guide the menu.
Ember represents a shift in how I wanted to cook and host — less about repetition, more about presence. Each event is an opportunity to respond to what’s around us instead of replicating the same service night after night.
At its core, Ember is about building community.
We believe a restaurant doesn’t need permanent walls to create something lasting.
Ember exists to bring the season to the table.
Where we’re cooking next, what’s coming up, and how to join us.
