Neighbourhood café · since 2019

Slow mornings, honest coffee & bread from the wood oven.

We roast in small batches, bake sourdough before sunrise and serve brunch until three. Come for a flat white, stay for the second one.

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Our story
“We wanted the kind of place where the barista knows your order and your dog's name.”
Maya & Tom, founders

Fern & Ember started as a weekend bread stall. Six years later we have a wood-fired oven, a small roaster in the back room and a counter full of regulars who still call us “the bread people”.

We buy green coffee directly from two farms in Colombia and Ethiopia, mill our own rye and get our milk and eggs from farms less than an hour away. Nothing fancy, just doing the simple things carefully.

07:00doors open, every single day
48 hslow fermentation for our sourdough
3local farms we buy from
The regulars

Some people never look at the menu.

Their usual orders are pinned to the corkboard behind our counter. Stick around long enough and yours will be too.
4.8 ★ on Google · 900+ reviews

Visit us

On the corner of Alder & Fifth.

Five minutes from the riverside park. Bike racks out front, step-free entrance, and a quiet table by the window if you ask nicely.

Opening hours

ALDER ST FIFTH AVE Riverside Park
Fern & Ember
48 Alder Street
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Want a loaf saved for you?

Our bread sells out by noon on weekends. Pick what you'd like and when you'll pop in, and we'll keep it behind the counter.

What to save
Pick-up tomorrow
Today's bakes on Instagram @fernember
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