Who We Are
Our name pays honor to the Algonquians, the indigenous people who made this patch of earth their home.
They began every day with a Sunrise Ceremony to greet the dawn, and the centerpiece of that ceremony was a fire. The one who created and stoked that roaring, leaping fire was the tribe's designated Firetender.
In that same spirit, we have built our restaurant around a flame.
Inside Hotel Manteo
Firetender sits on the ground floor of Hotel Manteo, a Trademark Collection by Wyndham property that has been putting people up on Roanoke Island since 1954.
Come for dinner, stay the night, and leave the car parked.
814 N Highway 64/264, Manteo, NC 27954.
The Kitchen
Executive Chef and General Manager Shaun Belangia runs a made-from-scratch kitchen.
Stone-oven pizzas, house-made meatballs, fresh pasta, hand-smashed burgers and a rotating lineup of chef's features.
The oven sits where you can see it, because the fire is the point.
The Embers Room
Upstairs is a private event floor with its own foyer, bar and kitchen. Seats up to 60.
Weddings and rehearsal dinners, corporate dinners, birthdays, reunions and the large family table.
Custom catering menus written around your event, not pulled off the restaurant menu.
Our Story
The Stone Oven
The beating heart of our kitchen is a custom-built Marra Forni stone oven, from one of the premier makers of Italian pizza ovens in the country. We love it most for the bubbled surfaces and gentle char it brings, and the rustic character it gives our pizzas.
The Beer
Hearty, crowd-pleasing cooking calls out for beer. We partner with the region's best, Weeping Radish, North Carolina's first microbrewery, founded in 1986. Their core brews pour alongside our own craft cocktails and what we think is the area's best top shelf.
The Table
Eating and drinking is only part of the experience at Firetender. We hope to become a fixture in your lives: a place to celebrate and a place to escape, where you come with friends and leave with more. A place, above all, that feeds you.
