Basement level · 12 Kiln Street · Doors 21:00

molten

A late listening room. Sixty seats, two horns, and records played the way they were cut.

TonightAsh Sessions, 21:00
Seats60
Last entry23:30
ClosedSunday, Monday
What this is

Built around a pair of horns and a very long night

Molten is one room, two flights below street level, with a bar along the back wall and a table at the front that seats four. The system was put in before the furniture. Everything else was arranged around where it sounds right.

The selector plays sides in full. No requests, no cutting between tracks, no screen behind the booth telling you what is on. If you want to know, ask at the bar and someone will turn the sleeve around.

The volume sits where a conversation still works. This is not a dance floor and there is no room for one, which is the point.

Room60 seated, 12 standing at the bar
SystemTwo horns, valve amplification, vinyl and reel
KitchenSmall plates until 00:30
BarCloses 02:00, Thursday to Saturday
PhonesNot on the floor. The bar is fine.
Walk insFour seats held back every night
Programme · September 2026

What is on

THU 03 SEP
21:00

Ash Sessions

The house night. Two sets from the residents, mostly spiritual jazz and dub pressings, one side at a time until the bar closes.

12 seats left
FRI 04 SEP
21:30

Nadia Berri, all night

Four hours, one selector, no support. Nadia runs Levantine funk and Egyptian soul from her own copies. She brings the crates in a taxi and she takes them home in one.

Full
SAT 05 SEP
21:00

Slow Burn

Ballads and long forms. Nothing above a hundred beats a minute. The kitchen runs a shorter menu and the lights come down at eleven.

Seats at the bar
WED 09 SEP
20:00

Open Sleeve

Bring one record. You get one side, in full, and thirty seconds to say why. Ten slots, first come. The bar keeps a list from eight.

Open
THU 11 SEP
21:00

Ash Sessions

Same night, different crates. The residents swap the order every week and never announce it in advance.

Open
SAT 19 SEP
21:30

Tape Night

Reel to reel only, from the house machine. Two engineers, one room, and a rule that nothing gets started over.

15 seats left
Resident

Nadia Berri

Levantine funk, Egyptian soul, anything with horns on it. Friday, twice a month.

Resident

Karim Ayoub

Spiritual jazz and dub. Opened the room and still fixes the amp himself.

Resident

Yara Sfeir

Ballads, film scores and the slow end of everything. Saturdays.

The bar

Short list, done properly

Six drinks and four plates. They change when the season does and never in the middle of a week.

Kiln Street Negroni

62

Stirred long over one block, with a burnt orange peel. The house measure is stiff.

Arak Highball

48

Arak, soda, cold grapes. It arrives cloudy and it is meant to.

Ember Sour

58

Mezcal, apricot, lime. Smoke on the nose, sharp underneath.

Basalt Martini

65

Very cold, very dry, olive on request. We will not make it dirty.

Labneh, chilli oil, flatbread

34

Made in the morning, hung overnight. It is the plate people order twice.

Grilled sujuk, pickles

42

Off the flat top, cut thick. Kitchen stops at half twelve.

Booking

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