Tables on the lawn looking along the Basque coast

About us

The chef cooking at sunset with the sea behind
Cooking at sunset, Guéthary

A restaurant first

Woodfired comes from Villa Anvers, the restaurant we open on the cliffs of Guéthary every summer. One seating a night, Thursday to Saturday, a sharing menu cooked over wood and served outside, facing the ocean.

Guests kept asking whether we could cook the same dinner for their wedding, their birthday or their company. So we started to pack up the fire and take it with us.

Four members of the team under a tent
Part of the team, summer 2024

The people

Jordan Trainor runs the kitchen as our chef. Nicklas Menschel founded the place and looks after you from the first message to the day itself. Around them, a summer team of cooks and waiters who know how a long table should feel.

We are not a big catering company and do not want to be. We take a small number of events each year so each one gets our full attention.

5.0on Google, from 40 reviews of the restaurant
130guests standing, 100 seated, at most
4weddings a year at the villa: May, June, September, October
Guests on the lawn above the sea at sunset

Weddings at Villa Anvers

Each year we host one wedding a month at Villa Anvers in May, June, September and October, with the whole house for your guests for five days to a week. The rest of the year, we come to you.

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