★★★★★
Reserved a moon out, sat at the corner of the counter, and did not check the time once. The nigiri course alone was worth the trip.
Mara R.
Anniversary seating
Anniversary seating
Omakase & Izakaya · Hayes Valley
Lantern & Ash
Twelve seats. One counter. One unhurried evening, set in front of you by hand.
The Counter
The chef sets each course in front of you by hand. Nothing rushed. Nothing repeated.
There is no menu to hand back, no list to choose from. You take one of twelve seats, and the evening comes to you course by course ~ what was best at the market that morning, finished an arm's length away and served the moment it is ready.
12
Seats at the counter
2
Seatings a night
~2 hrs
Start to last pour
The Omakase
An evening, in courses
One set menu, chosen for you. It turns with the season ~ this is the shape of a recent night.
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i
To open ~ the first taste
A small cold dish to set the tone. Often something raw and clean, dressed with almost nothing.
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ii
From the sea ~ nigiri, one by one
A run of nigiri placed straight onto the counter, each piece meant to be eaten the moment it lands.
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iii
From the fire ~ the grill
A single course off the binchōtan ~ miso-glazed black cod, a curl of smoke, a leaf of shiso.
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iv
To close ~ warm rice & a sweet
A quiet bowl to finish, then something small and sweet to send you back into the night.
$185 per seat
Optional sake pairing · $75
The counter is one seating, one menu, all together. Dietary needs are welcome ~ tell us when you reserve and the chef builds around them.
The Room
Small on purpose
Lantern & Ash is one long counter of blonde hinoki, twelve seats, and a single warm light over each place. The room is dark so the food is not.
We keep it small because the whole point is the counter ~ close enough to watch the knife work, to hear the grill, to trade a word with the chef between courses. Reservations open one moon ahead and the counter fills quickly, so we hold a short waitlist for the seats that open up.
One
Counter, no tables
1 moon
Reservations open ahead
Nightly
Menu built at the market
Guests
What the counter says
★★★★★
The black cod off the grill and the sake pairing were the best two hours we have spent at a counter. Quiet, exact, unhurried.
Devin & Priya
Sake pairing
Sake pairing
★★★★★
They built the whole menu around a shellfish allergy without missing a beat. Twelve seats, one chef, and it felt like it was just for us.
Jordan K.
Dietary build-around
Dietary build-around
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Seatings & location
Seatings
- MondayDark
- TuesdayDark
- Wednesday · Today6:00 & 8:30 PM
- Thursday6:00 & 8:30 PM
- Friday6:00 & 8:30 PM
- Saturday5:30 & 8:15 PM
- Sunday5:30 & 8:00 PM
Find us
9 Ember LaneHayes Valley
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Take a seat at the counter.
Reservations open one moon ahead. If the night you want is full, the waitlist reaches you the moment a seat opens.
Marking an occasion, or bringing the whole counter as a private party? Tell us and we will hold the room.
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