One fire
There is no gas in our kitchen. Everything is cooked over, under or beside the hearth, and that limit is what makes the food ours.
Our story
It started with one grill
A pop-up in a shipping container, a borrowed fridge and a queue down the dock. Seven years on, the fire is still the point.
“I wanted a kitchen where you could smell what you were about to eat from the door. No gas, no shortcuts, just a fire we never let go out.”
Dan Ferris
Head chef and founder
Seven years
From the docks to Cooper’s Yard
- 2019
Started as a Saturday pop-up in a shipping container on the docks, with one grill and a borrowed fridge.
- 2021
Moved into Cooper's Yard, a former barrel works, and built a ten-metre brick hearth down the middle of the room.
- 2023
Opened the Cellar Room under the arches for private dinners, wine tastings and the odd wedding.
- 2025
Planted our own kitchen garden with Stoke Bottom Gardens. Most of what you eat in summer now grows 12 miles away.
How we cook
Three rules we never break
The seasons decide
We write the menu around what the farms send us, not the other way round. Asparagus for six weeks, then it is gone.
Nothing wasted
We buy whole animals and whole crates. Bones become gravy, peelings become stock, and the bar gets the citrus.
The team
The people at the hearth
Dan Ferris
Head chef and founder
Cooked in London and San Sebastián before coming home to Bristol with one idea: build a whole kitchen around a fire.
Amara Osei
Sous chef
Runs the pass and our whole-animal butchery, so nothing that comes through the back door goes to waste.
Leo Hart
Bar manager
Builds the drinks list from what the kitchen leaves behind, from fennel tops to blood orange peel.
Our suppliers
We can name every farm
Most of what we cook comes from within 40 miles. The fish comes further, because the best day boats are in Cornwall.
- 22 miles
Hollow Lane Farm
Hereford beef · Somerset
- 18 miles
Mendip Ridge
Lamb and mutton · Mendip Hills
- 196 miles
Kittiwake Fish Co.
Day boat fish · Newlyn
- 12 miles
Stoke Bottom Gardens
Organic vegetables · North Somerset
- 31 miles
Whitecross Mill
Stoneground flour · Gloucestershire
- 40 miles
Five Acre Bees
Honey and wax · Cotswolds