Live-fire kitchen · opening soon

Fig & Thistle

Meat over open coals. Bread out of our own oven. Opening this autumn on Kilroy Ave.

Mixed grill platter — lamb chop, chicken, kofta and tips over rice
Kofta skewers on flatbread with grilled tomato and sumac onions

If you have stood near a real fire, you already know.

Everything on this menu meets live coals or a hot oven floor. No gas, no shortcuts, no holding cabinet — food goes from the fire to the table, and that is the entire idea.

The Coals

Skewers over live charcoal. Ground lamb and beef, chops, tips, chicken — seared hard and served the minute they come off.

The Oven

Bread baked here through the day, and it comes with nearly everything. Soups arrive with it. Salads arrive with it. It is the foundation, not a side.

The Table

Soup, something cold to drink, something sweet under honey. Food built for staying a while.

Honey pastry with pistachio beside a small glass of black tea
Bread from the oven, one loaf torn open, still warm

The bread is baked here. It lands on the table warm, with the soups, with the salads, with the chicken. Everything else is built on top of it.

Find us on Kilroy

Fig & Thistle
218 Kilroy Ave
Portland, OR 97214

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We are building out the space now. Hours, phone, and the opening date go up here the moment they are set.

Bowl of meatball soup with herbs and chickpeas

Be there when the fire is lit.

Leave your email and we will tell you the day we open.

One email when we open. Maybe one before. Nothing else.