Cinder Row (210) 555-0161
A plate at the pass: crisp-skinned fish over a soft mash, under the light

Wood-fire steak · the Pearl, San Antonio

Dinner, over embers.

Post oak, and nothing else, since the first night

The pass, every night.

40 daysdry-aged in house
Post oakthe only fuel
Midnightkitchen, every night

Tue–Sun · 5pm to midnight · bar to 1am

Reserve a table.

Forty-two seats, twelve at the counter facing the fire. The menu and the prices are on this page, and a table for tonight usually exists after nine.

Reserve Call (210) 555-0161

One fire. One room.

Everything on the menu meets the post oak at some point: the beef, the whole fish, the vegetables, the ice in the old fashioned. There is no gas line in the kitchen, and there is no second location.

Forty-two seats, twelve of them at the counter where you can watch the pass. The kitchen runs until midnight every night we are open, because the people who cook for a living eat late too.

42seats, twelve at the counter facing the fire
40days on the dry-age. Ribeye, striploin and the odd short rib, cut to order
12:00the kitchen's last order, every night. The bar pours until one

Three plates, in the order the counter orders them

Forty-day ribeye.

Smoked old fashioned.

The pass.

The room

Dark, and late.

A long room off Jones Avenue at the Pearl: the grill at one end, the bar at the other, and the counter in between. Low light, no music you have to talk over, and a kitchen that does not wind down at ten.

Tuesday to Thursday5pm – 12am
Friday and Saturday5pm – 1am
Sunday5pm – 12am
MondayClosed

211 Jones Ave, San Antonio, TX 78215. Street parking on Jones and the Pearl garage on Grayson.

The wood grill in full flame The back bar, dim, a drink waiting

Reserve

A table, or the counter.

We hold a third of the room for walk-ins every night, and the counter is walk-in only. For the rest, tell us when and how many, and we confirm by text.

Parties of seven or more, and anything you want cooked whole for the table, call (210) 555-0161 after three.

We confirm by text within the hour, from three in the afternoon. No card, no deposit; we hold the table for fifteen minutes.

From the counter

Worth the smoke.

★★★★★

Sat at the counter on a Wednesday at eleven and watched them cook my ribeye over the coals. Left smelling like a campfire and would do it again tomorrow.

Elena · Tobin Hill
★★★★★

The prices are on the website, which is how we ended up here: we knew what the fish for two cost before we booked. It was better than the number suggested.

Marcus & Jo · Alamo Heights
★★★★★

Old fashioned turned over an ember before the pour. Dark room, no music you have to shout over, kitchen still going after midnight. Our kind of place.