To celebrate the beginning of 2018, the Year of the Sea in Wales, we asked Steve Griffiths, our favourite local poet, if we could share his beautiful piece entitled 'Saltings.' --- The taste that sea-salt opens up: its slow, white bolt from the blue. The taste you...
Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, film-maker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort myth from reality. (Spoiler: our...
This weekend, we are excited to be welcoming Hilary from The Rustic Gourmet to Ty Halen, who will be selling her famous wood-fired pizzas, as well as our local mussels and Anglesey fish soup. The oven will be going from 11.30 to3.30pm on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th...
Designs/drawings: J Lea-Wilson
Though we're sure that any food-lover will be pleased with a gift from Halen Môn this Christmas, we know that sometimes choosing can be difficult, so we've put together a quick festive guide for the different people in your life. FOR YOUR SECRET SANTA Our exclusive...
'The Meadow celebrates the elemental essentials of the table by exploring the variety and nuances that ennoble and inspire us. We welcome our customers with expertise, passion, and a desire to share our interests in food and culture. Through this simple mission we...
“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.” - from Moby...
I was asked recently for a list of cookbooks that have been influential in my life, by a friend writing his own book. As I flicked through many heavily-laden shelves, I realised how much these books have influenced how my family and I have lived for the past 40 years...
It is quite rare for us to write about something on our blog that is not obviously related to Halen Môn, which perhaps emphasises how important this project is to us. Our mission statement has the word 'sustainable' in it, and sustainability works when it is at the...
Just around the corner from Ty Halen, our new Saltcote, is one quarter of an extraordinary outdoor summer art installation, 'Four on Anglesey.' This project has seen four striking 2.5m canvases placed in the four corners of the salty isle, each painting in amongst the...