Our Story
Cooking that tastes like home — wherever home is.
Ember & Rye started in 2018 when chef Maya Okonkwo turned a forgotten Peckham railway arch into the kind of room she'd always wanted to eat in — warm, loud, candlelit and full of people lingering over one more bottle.
Her cooking pulls from two homes — the open fires of Lagos and the markets of South London — landing somewhere generous, smoky and seasonal.
Six years on, it still feels like dinner at a friend's place. Just with a slightly better wine list.