The Team

Meet the Chefs

Decades of fire-cooking craft, brought together under one hearth.

Mireille Tanaka portrait — see IMAGE_PROMPTS.md (chef-mireille-tanaka)

Mireille Tanaka

Executive Chef

Mireille trained in Lyon and spent six years running hearth kitchens across the Mediterranean before bringing her live-fire philosophy to Ember & Oak. She designs every seasonal menu around what the wood fire does best.

Live-Fire Cooking

Darius Cole portrait — see IMAGE_PROMPTS.md (chef-darius-cole)

Darius Cole

Head Chef, Pastry

Darius built his career in New York's fine-dining pastry kitchens before turning his attention to smoke and char — his desserts use the same hearth that cooks the mains, balancing sweetness with quiet bitterness.

Smoked Desserts

Amara Osei portrait — see IMAGE_PROMPTS.md (chef-amara-osei)

Amara Osei

Sous Chef

Amara oversees the raw bar and seafood program, sourcing daily from small day-boat fleets and treating each catch with as little intervention as possible — just fire, salt, and citrus.

Seafood & Raw Bar