Charcoal Garden Bar + Grill, created by Ken Lyon, is an
exciting new restaurant concept that brings a unique design and
gastronomic approach to Miami’s ever-expanding culinary scene. Located
at The Wynwood Yard, Charcoal is the first full-service restaurant
onsite and the only one in Miami to be built completely from modified
shipping containers, executed by the talented team at Little River Box
Company. Since The Yard is a temporary-use space, these portable and
sustainable building blocks provide the perfect architectural solution.
The
limited kitchen size restricts the complexity of the menu; therefore,
we’ve established the most basic of concepts – simply grill the best,
locally sourced, ‘off-the-industrial-grid’ foods we can obtain. Our menu
is built around a single type of cooking equipment; a pair of Josper
grills, state-of-the-art Spanish enclosed grills that burn 100% charcoal
and can reach upwards of 800ยบ Fahrenheit. The results? Foods that have
a deep, developed, pure flavor profile.
We source
whole animals – hormone and antibiotic-free pastured chickens, Berkshire
hogs, and grass-fed lamb and beef – from small family Florida farms and
do the butchery in our commissary kitchen. Seafood is based on North
Atlantic stocks; from Florida to Canada. The globally inspired sauces
and condiments are made from scratch, in-house. Our herbs are grown
on-site in our organic edible garden. Charcoal’s simple yet elevated
grilled dishes pay homage to an earlier, ‘pre-cuisine’ period of
mankind: cooking over pure charcoal is a basic, primitive, analogue
technique that allows the quality ingredients to speak for themselves.
Their newly-reinvented neighborhood beer garden—Charcoal beer garden +
tapas —offers a selection of refreshing brews and ales hand-picked to
complement a new Spanish-style tapas menu perfect for summer. Dig into
wine-brined shrimp escabeche or fresh-made deviled farm eggs spiked with
smoked paprika and escalivada while cheering for your favorite team!
You can dine al fresco under the Roman-shaded central courtyard or indoors in Charcoal’s air-conditioned conservatory.
Their newly-reinvented neighborhood beer garden—Charcoal beer garden +
tapas —offers a selection of refreshing brews and ales hand-picked to
complement a new Spanish-style tapas menu perfect for summer. Dig into
wine-brined shrimp escabeche or fresh-made deviled farm eggs spiked with
smoked paprika and escalivada while cheering for your favorite team!You can dine al fresco under the Roman-shaded central courtyard or indoors in Charcoal’s air-conditioned conservatory.
