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Unusual things to do in Wales

Visitors to Halen Môn often ask us for other recommendations of interesting things to do on the salty isle.  There are lots of lists out there but here we've pulled together some of the more unusual places to visit and things to do when you're on Ynys Môn.Explore...

James Chant + Matsudai’s cult ramen

Matsudai started in 2019 as a creative outlet for founder James Chant and since then has delivered tens of thousands of ramen kits to every corner of the UK, been celebrated by culinary heroes as Jay Rayner, Tim Anderson and Melissa Thompson and James has gone on to...

Celebrating the sea: how we can all protect the waters we love

As an organisation that relies on the incredible natural resources around our beautiful island, this World Ocean Day, we want to celebrate the seas all over the world, and share some ways we can all help protect the waters we rely on. The magic of seaweed  A truly...

Our charity of the year 2025

Every year our team votes for a charity to raise funds for, and this year the organisation we have chosen is Shelter Cymru.  For Shelter Cymru, home is everything. Their team helps thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency,...

Letitia Ann Clark and For the Love of Lemons

Letitia Ann Clark's latest book For the Love of Lemons, celebrates a single sunny ingredient, the lemon. Joyful and bright recipes that transport us to sunnier days. Letitia kindly sat down to answer a few of our questions about the book and how she uses this...

A simple way to change children’s eating habits

The problemIn the UK, 33% of children aged 5-10 years eat less than one portion of vegetables a day. In recent years, fruit and vegetable consumption has declined in adults too, with only 31% eating the recommended five portions a day, despite the decades long ‘5-a...

The scent of rain: What is petrichor?

Have you ever stepped outside after a long dry spell, just as the first raindrops begin to fall, and recognised a scent in the air? Earthy. Fresh. Comforting. Not many people realise that scent has a name: petrichor. Coined in the 1960s by two Australian scientists,...

Halen Môn and Oxfam

You can now find Halen Môn on the shelves of your local Oxfam shop as a part of their 'Sourced By Oxfam' range, which brings together the best of ethical, sustainable and brand-new items from around the world. We're very proud to have been included. From the team at...

Three North Wales walks with perfect swim + café stops

Emma Marshall, local insider and author of guidebook, 'Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia’ shares with us her three favourite walks from the book which have great places to eat en route. Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia leads you on 28 walk-swimming adventures in...

Celebrating ethical business: B Corp Month

The ‘B’ in B Corp stands for ‘Benefit for All’ and certified B Corporations, in the simplest of terms, are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and...

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Expect interesting and delicious articles on everything from how to use our pure sea salt to eco-friendly gift ideas, how to season like a chef to flavoured salt recipes.

A Supper Club to Celebrate the opening of Tide/ Llanw

A Supper Club to Celebrate the opening of Tide/ Llanw

Earlier this month, we held our very first supper club at our new outdoor cafe, Tide/ Llanw.  We hosted a small gathering of guests, including writer and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage (where our chef, Sam Lomas, trained) who spoke before the...

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Opens our Outdoor Cafe Tide/ Llanw

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Opens our Outdoor Cafe Tide/ Llanw

Earlier in the month River Cottage writer and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall came to our Saltcote to open our new outdoor café, Tide/ LLanw. Tide/ Llanw’s head chef, Sam Lomas, worked at the world-famous River Cottage teaching cookery classes before joining...

TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Halen Môn

TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Halen Môn

Halen Môn was delighted  to host a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on a return visit to Anglesey last week. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to their previous home in North Wales to meet individuals and organisations in the region who are...

Tide/ Llanw Opening With Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Tide/ Llanw Opening With Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Next weekend we are celebrating the opening of our new outdoor café, Tide/ Llanw at Halen Môn, with River Cottage’s Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Come and join us for complimentary coffee and cake on Saturday 11th May between 11-12, where Hugh will also be signing...

Christmas Opening Hours

Christmas Opening Hours

Halen Môn is now closed for Christmas. We will resume tours and internet order despatch on 2nd January 2019. Best wishes from all the team for a very happy Christmas and a healthy 2019/  Pob ddymuniad am y Nadolig a’r flwyddyn newydd 2019.      ...

Dylan Thomas Reads ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’

Dylan Thomas Reads ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’

'All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street...' This year we stumbled across this world-famous story being read aloud by Dylan Thomas himself....

BBC Radio 4: Putting Anglesey on the Map

BBC Radio 4: Putting Anglesey on the Map

What do CenterParcs, Sky Sports and The Royal Horticultural Society all have in common? They’ve all accidentally omitted Anglesey from their official maps of the UK in the recent past. It seems that despite being the largest island in the Irish Sea and the largest...

A Panad with… Baker and Author Richard Snape

A Panad with… Baker and Author Richard Snape

We first met Richard when we had a pop-up at the brilliant market on Druid St in South London, which sadly no longer exists. It was a long day, and safe to say we didn't really know what we were doing when we set up that morning. Richard took us under his wing,...

The amazing new food show you have to watch: SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT

The amazing new food show you have to watch: SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT

Samin Nostrat's book 'SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT' has been hailed as a seminal cookbook that teaches the fundamentals of flavour. We are enormously excited for her new Netflix series of the same name. Roll on October 11th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKbs4jAf7M