The Hearth
Wood-fired Flatbreads
Pulled from the fire at peak char — blistered, breathing, alive with whatever the season offers.
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Burlington, Vermont
Fire, seasons, and good company.
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The Hearth
Pulled from the fire at peak char — blistered, breathing, alive with whatever the season offers.
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The Season
New England farms, picked at the edge of ready — sharing plates that change when the land does.
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The Main
Longer. Slower. Everything here has touched the flame and rested in the smoke.
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Everything here has touched the flame.
Wood-fired plates from a New England hearth. Since 2018, chef-owned and rooted in Vermont — every dish begins with what's growing nearby and what the fire wants to do with it. Seasonal. Local. Unapologetically from here.
The menu changes when the farms do. The fire never stops.
Read our full story →The flatbread ruined every other flatbread for me.
"Sunday supper feels like eating at a friend's house."
★★★★★ — Priya S.
Ember & Vine opened in Burlington in 2018 with a single, animating idea: that cooking over a real wood fire — not as a gimmick, but as the whole point — produces something no gas burner or electric range can touch. The char, the smoke, the uneven heat that demands the cook's constant attention.
It's a New England approach to an ancient method. Vermont winters make you want something that glows.
We don't write the menu and then shop. We shop — from farms we know by name, in fields we've walked — and then we write the menu. That means the kitchen moves with the land: asparagus in May, dry corn in October, root vegetables through the deep cold.
What grows here, we cook here. That's the whole brief.
Ember & Vine is and has always been a chef-owned restaurant. That means the person who wrote the menu is in the kitchen every service — not on television, not at a second location. The decisions that matter to you were made by someone who cares whether the flatbread is right tonight.
It also means we're small on purpose. Forty seats. One hearth. Full attention.
Wood-fired cooking is our method and our medium — not decoration. Every dish touches the flame.
Local farms and honest seasonality drive the menu. We change when the land does.
Good company is part of the recipe. Sharing plates. Sunday suppers. A room that slows you down.
Burlington, Vermont. New England. Here, specifically — not a concept that could be anywhere.