HALEN MÔN BLOG

  An outdoor bathing experience. This spring at Halen Môn, we are super excited to be offering a modern take on a rather old tradition. For hundreds of years, people have been bathing in seaweed for its nurturing, restorative and healing properties. This year,...

Over the past three decades, we have sold to and worked with hundreds of chefs. Big names and lesser known (but no less talented) cooks. We’ve picked up stellar recipes on our salt-selling travels, everywhere from New York City to Barcelona, Singapore to Modena, and...

Why use sea salt? While table salt is the most common variety of cooking salt found in much of the world, we believe it doesn’t belong anywhere near the kitchen. Though cheap and easy to pour from a spout, it is often laden with anti-caking agents that can impart...

The end of January can sometimes be a little bleak – dark and cold, with the festive break long behind us. It’s warming then to have a Welsh tradition as a flicker of light at the end of month.  On the 25th of January every year, people all over Wales celebrate St...

Wales’ national vegetable and emblem, the Welsh leek, is now officially protected as it gains PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) UK GI status. It’s the third new Welsh product to achieve UK GI status joining Gower Salt Marsh Lamb and Cambrian Mountains...

Our cafe, Tide/Llanw, here at Halen Môn has been lucky enough to host not one but two of those named in this year '30 Under 30' CODE hospitality list. Both Sam Lomas, formerly of River Cottage, and Nick Rudge of The Jackdaw Conwy, joined us last summer to cook for...