The candlelit dining room at Sable & Smoke, set for the evening service

Wood-fired · Seasonal · Austin

Cooked over oak. Served by candlelight.

Every dish at Sable & Smoke touches live fire before it touches your table. A short, seasonal menu, natural wine poured generously, and a dining room that glows through both seatings.

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Seven-course tasting menu Six-seat chef’s counter 120-bottle natural wine cellar Two seatings nightly · 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM
4.92,300+ guest reviews
Est. 2016Ten years at the fire
48 seatsTwo seatings nightly
5:30 PM & 8:15 PMTue – Sun · Two seatings nightly
“The most complete dining room in the city right now — fire, pacing, warmth, all of it.”
The Austin Table — Critics’ Pick
“A masterclass in live-fire cooking. The tomahawk alone justifies the pilgrimage.”
Fire & Feast Magazine
“Candlelight, oak smoke and a cellar most Paris bistros would envy.”
The Southern Palate
“Ten years in, and the room still feels like the city’s best-kept secret.”
City Nights Guide — Reader Favourite
Chef Elena Marsh finishing a plate at the pass during service
Chef Elena Marsh at the pass, final service touches

Our Story

One fire. One menu. No shortcuts.

Sable & Smoke began with a single oak-fired hearth and a stubborn idea: cook the way people cooked for centuries, with the precision of a modern kitchen. Chef Elena Marsh and her team of eleven build every menu around the morning's market run — if it isn't in season within a hundred miles, it isn't on the plate.

The room seats forty-eight. The fire never fully goes out. And the menu changes the moment the farms say it should.

10Years open
14Partner farms
120+Natural wines
38Seasonal menus

The Craft

How a plate earns its place

Four disciplines, practised every single day. This is the standard behind every dish that leaves the pass.

01

The Wood

Post oak from a single Texas ranch, split and seasoned nine months. No gas, no charcoal — wood is our only fuel.

02

The Ember Bed

The fire is lit at 9am and read by hand, not thermometer. Each station cooks at a different heat drawn from one bed of coals.

03

The Morning Market

Fourteen partner farms within a hundred miles. The menu is written at 4pm, after the trucks — never before.

04

The Pass

Every plate is tasted, torched or ember-finished seconds before service, and plated by the chef who cooked it.

From the Hearth

Signatures the room talks about

Four plates that have never left the menu — each one finished over oak embers seconds before it leaves the kitchen.

Seared scallops with cauliflower purée and brown butter

Ember Scallops

$24

Hand-dived scallops, cauliflower silk, brown butter, crispy sage.

Guest favourite
A sliced dry-aged tomahawk steak, cooked medium rare

45-Day Tomahawk

$88

Dry-aged in-house, oak-grilled, bone-marrow butter. Built for two.

For the table
An artfully plated duck dish with charred corn and garden flowers

Ember Duck

$42

Dry-aged duck breast, charred corn, kombu gel, garden flowers.

Chef's signature
A dark chocolate dessert with cacao sorbet and coconut

Midnight Chocolate

$16

72% single-origin chocolate, toasted coconut, cacao sorbet, gold leaf.

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Experiences

Three ways to sit with the fire

Book the room, the counter, or the full journey — each one is a different seat in the same story.

The dining room set for the seven-course tasting menu
The classic

The Tasting Journey

$95 / guest

  • Seven courses written that afternoon
  • Printed menu to take home
  • Natural wine pairing available, +$55
Reserve the Tasting
Chef Elena Marsh plating at the chef's counter by the hearth
Most sought after

The Chef’s Counter

$145 / guest

  • Six stools, arm’s reach from the embers
  • Nine courses served by the chefs themselves
  • Cellar pours & off-menu ember bites included

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The copper bar, home of the late-night experience
After dark

Bar & Late Ember

$45 / guest

  • From 10pm — walk-ins welcome
  • Two signature cocktails & ember small plates
  • The full 120-bottle natural wine cellar
Join After Dark

Private Dining

The Copper Room & the bar after dark

Behind the cellar door, the Copper Room seats fourteen around one oak table — birthdays, closings, quiet celebrations. After 10pm the bar opens to walk-ins for cocktails and the late menu.

  • Private hearth-side table for up to 14 guests
  • A dedicated sommelier and your own menu printing
  • Signature cocktails built around smoke and citrus
Plan an Evening
A bartender at work behind the copper bar, a cocktail resting on the counter

Word of Mouth

Guests say it better

4.92,314 guest reviews
5 ★92%
4 ★6%
3 ★1%
2 ★1%
1 ★0%

Reservations

Book your seat by the fire

Two seatings nightly — 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM. Parties of seven or more, call us and we'll set the long table.

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Show this reference at the host stand. Running late? Call (512) 555-0184 and we'll hold your table for fifteen minutes.

Good to know

Arrive hungry, leave unhurriedSeatings run two hours at an easy pace.
No cancellation feePlans change — cancel free up to 3 hours before.
Chef's counterSix stools at the hearth — ask in the occasion box.

Gift Cards

Give someone the fire

The gift people actually remember. Choose an amount — the card arrives by email with a hand-written note from the kitchen, and never expires.

The Ember Club

One letter a month: the new menu the day it’s written, first access to the chef’s counter, and invitation-only ember nights. No noise — the good tables, first.

Good Questions

Before you book

The dining room books out two to three weeks ahead on weekends; the chef’s counter, about a month. Weekday first seatings are often available within days — and the bar is always walk-in after 10pm.
Gladly. Note them when you book and the kitchen adapts the tasting menu course by course — vegetarian and vegan journeys are written with the same care as the main menu, never as an afterthought.
Life happens — cancel free of charge up to 3 hours before your seating, right from your confirmation or by phone. We hold every table for fifteen minutes past the seating time.
The Copper Room seats fourteen around one oak table with a dedicated sommelier and a menu printed for your evening. Full-room hire is available on Mondays, when the fire would otherwise rest.
Valet runs from 6pm nightly, and street parking surrounds East 6th. Dress is smart-casual — most guests dress for the candlelight, but the only real rule is: come hungry.
The warm dining room with its backlit wine wall and round oak tables

Visit

Find the glow on East 6th

1214 East 6th Street, Austin, TX 78702 — two blocks from the river, valet from 6pm. Look for the copper door and the smell of oak smoke.

Seatings — every open night5:30 PM & 8:15 PM
Tuesday — ThursdaySeatings 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM · doors 5 PM – 10:30 PM
Friday — SaturdaySeatings 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM · bar until 12 AM
SundaySeatings 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM · doors 4 PM – 9:30 PM
MondayDark — the fire rests

Two seatings nightly at 5:30 PM & 8:15 PM — the same times in the hero, here, and in the reservation form. The bar opens to walk-ins from 10 PM after the second seating.

Call (512) 555-0184 Email the Host