We're open again
Friday and Saturday evenings,
and Sunday lunch.
From 20 September, at 11 Mansel Street in Carmarthen. Walk in on a Friday or Saturday evening, or book a table for Sunday lunch.
Carmarthen11 Mansel Street
Let's reopen The Warren together.
A community experiment to reopen The Warren and build a secure future for what it stands for.
Every Thursday
Volunteer mornings
Offer some timeOpen again, from 20 September
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Book a table
Our storyIn Deri's words
Nine years ago I bought 11 Mansel Street.
A crowd funder raised more than £20,000 and we opened The Warren.
What followed was nine years of it. Awards from The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurants, a community kitchen, an allotment project all topped off with the "Community Food Hero" from the BBC Food & Farming awards!
Then I was burnt out, and I put The Warren into hibernation.
That was nearly a year ago. I have had time to stop, recover and think, and I am ready to come back to it differently. This time alongside the community that helped me build it.
The aim is not to reopen a restaurant. It is to work out how to protect The Warren, what it stands for and the people it serves, for longer than one person can manage alone.
This is a pilot. It exists to test the idea, develop the plan and find out whether the support is really there. Every penny of profit from the pilot goes into forming the community company, and we will publish what comes in and what goes out from the start.
The campaign so farKept up to date by itself
What the last few weeks look like.
- BR Digital
- ABS Carmarthen
- Alan Davies Electrical
- Chris Devon & Sons
- Geoff Grigg
- P D Gleeson Plumbing and Heating
- Simon Jones Windows
- Glasbren CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)
- ComLink Fire & Security Ltd
- Plas Y Maes Retreat
- Moonbrook View
- Louise & The Feathers
- Bwyd Sir Gar Food
- Coaltown Coffee
- Chloës Blooms
This board keeps itself up to date: new pictures, new names, new numbers, same room. Twenty-two more put their names down before there was a site to count them.
Join usPictures from the volunteer Thursdays and the room getting ready · numbers straight from the door sheet, the sponsor book and the pledge form
What is onCarmarthen
Open again: Friday and Saturday evenings, and Sunday lunch.
Open again, from 20 September
Lunch
Producer driven dishes, overnight cooked meats and natural wines. Our most popular service of the week is back. Book a table, or just walk in.
A la carte · a card holds your table · twelve till three
Book a table
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From the journalDeri, thinking out loud
The thinking behind it.
14 September 2026
The Tenth Year Speech from Deri
This is what we’ve all been waiting for, huh? The big announcement. But first, I think we should start with a big happy birthday to The Warren. Ten years. It’s amazing to see so…
1 September 2026
Fallow
For those of you who missed the chat with me and Lisa at Fallow, here it is…
25 August 2026
So, how’s it going?
It’s been just over two weeks since I shared the idea of trying to reopen The Warren differently. Not simply reopening the restaurant as it was, but spending the next few months…
Gift vouchersGood for two years
Gift vouchers
Money at the Warren, to spend on lunch, a drink, a table for a few, or whatever we happen to be doing. All at once or a bit at a time, and good for two years.