Biographical Info

EMBERS wood fire dining is a roaming wood fire dining experience run by chefs Simon Furley, Alex Hall and Kyle McNamara, offering fine-dining tasting menus to country-style relaxed banquets.  We have worked together for 6 years maintaining back-to-back chef hats and achieved many other accolades alongside these.  Such as;

Homage restaurant at Spicers Hidden Vale, Grandchester

• 2015 Good Food Guide – One Hat
• 2015 Australian Good Food Guide – Two Hats
• 2016 Good Food Guide – One Hat
• 2016 Australian Good Food Guide – Two Hats
• 2016 Delicious Magazine Top 14 Restaurant QLD
• 2017 Good Food Guide – One Hat
• 2017 Australian Good Food Guide – Two Hats
• 2019 Good Food Guide – One Hat
• 2019 QHA Best Restaurant, Accommodation
• 2019 Restaurant and Catering Savour Awards – Winner Fine Dining Restaurant
• 2019 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards – Two Glasses
• 2019 Traveller – Regional Australia’s Ten Best Restaurants with Rooms
• 2020 R&CA QLD & NT – Best Fine Dining Restaurant
• 2020 Australian Good Food Guide (AGFG) – Two Hats
• 2020 Gourmet Traveller Wine List of Year Awards – Two Glasses
• 2021 Australian Good Food Guide (AGFG) – Two Hats

The Paddock restaurant at Beechmont Estate ( formerly Hazelwood Estate), Beechmont

• 2022 Australian Good Food Guide – One Hat
• 2023 Australian Good Food Guide – Two Hats

All of these awards plus countless rave reviews and publications in local and international media.

Embers Wood Fire are excited to take their kitchen concepts on the road to reach many different events in south east Queensland.