Hello from Salt & Ember

The restaurant people can't stop talking about.

Salt & Ember is a neighbourhood restaurant in Brighton cooking over fire with produce from farms we know by name. Relaxed lunches, long dinners and a short, honest wine list, served by people who love what they do.

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  • Restaurant
    Brighton
  • 4.8rated
  • Bib Table Guide 2026
  • Wood-fired flatbread£6
  • Burrata & heritage tomatoes£11
  • 5★ Food hygiene
  • Proudly
    Brighton
    local

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Every dish at Salt & Ember, with the price, timing and what's included on the back.

Small plates

Wood-fired flatbread

£6 Ready in 8 min

Blistered sourdough flatbread with whipped cultured butter and smoked sea salt.

  • 48-hour fermented sourdough
  • Whipped cultured butter from a Somerset dairy
  • Smoked sea salt and wild garlic oil

Small plates

Burrata & heritage tomatoes

£11

Creamy burrata, sweet heritage tomatoes, basil oil and toasted seeds.

  • Hand-made burrata delivered twice weekly
  • Three varieties of heritage tomato
  • Basil oil pressed in our kitchen

Small plates

Crispy pork belly bites

£9

Slow-cooked outdoor-reared pork belly with apple ketchup and pickled chilli.

  • Outdoor-reared, free-range pork
  • Twelve-hour slow cook
  • House apple ketchup

Pasta

Hand-rolled pappardelle

£17

Ribbons of fresh egg pasta with slow-braised beef shin ragù and aged parmesan.

  • Fresh egg pasta rolled daily
  • Six-hour braised beef shin
  • Thirty-month aged parmesan

Pasta

Wild mushroom risotto

£16

Carnaroli rice, foraged mushrooms, brown butter and a crisp sage leaf.

  • Carnaroli rice for a perfect texture
  • Seasonal foraged mushrooms
  • Roasted mushroom stock made in-house

Mains

Fish of the day

£24

Line-caught fish cooked over embers with brown shrimp butter and sea greens.

  • Day-boat fish from the south-west coast
  • Cooked over oak and apple wood
  • Brown shrimp and caper butter

Compare options

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Not sure which suits you? Here's how Lunch compares with Dinner at Salt & Ember.

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Option 2Dinner
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Typical time
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Vegetarian · Serves 2
Vegetarian
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Wood-fired flatbread
Crispy pork belly bites
Small plates
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Pasta
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Mains
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Desserts
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Gallery

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A glimpse of Salt & Ember in Brighton: the space, the people and the work we're proud of.

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Reviews

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Swipe through what guests say about Salt & Ember. Every one of them is real.

4.9Average rating · 6 recent reviews
01 / 06

The flatbread alone is worth the trip. We've been coming to Salt & Ember every month for a year and it's never been anything less than brilliant. Warm, unfussy and the food is outstanding.

Hannah W.

Regular guest

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Salt & Ember · Brighton

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