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Deri Reed sitting on the step outside The Warren, 11 Mansel Street

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Let's reopen The Warren together.

A community experiment to reopen The Warren and build a secure future for what it stands for.

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Ten years Carmarthen Reopening together

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.

Volunteers
10 people helping run it 16 hours given on the Thursdays already.
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Two jobs open

Cook / Chef.Front of House. Real jobs, in the building, from the start.

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Saturday 12 September · The Warren’s 10th Birthday. One night, back in the room.

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Backed by Sponsor a night
Pledged
4 pledges for what comes next Pax, Philippa, Viv and Maxine said we could say so.
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And counting

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.

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Pictures from the volunteer Thursdays and the room getting ready · numbers straight from the door sheet, the sponsor book and the pledge form

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Ten years, and a night to mark it.

  1. Saturday 12 September

    The Warren’s 10th Birthday

    Ten years to the season since a shuttered unit on Mansel Street became The Warren. One night, back in the room, to mark it properly and to show what the building could be next. Tickets through Ticket Tailor.

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A burger with chips, salad and a flat white on a scrubbed wooden table at The Warren
Photograph Heather Birnie

Ten years of it

4.8out of 5

806 people reviewed The Warren on Google.

Nobody was handed a card and asked to. They are still there, and so is the rating, on a listing we do not control.

  • Excellent experience all over. The food was divine, service impeccable and friendly.

    Liz O.

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From the journalDeri, thinking out loud

The thinking behind it.

  1. 14 August 2026

    What does The Warren reopening mean for Cegin Hedyn?

    With everything I've been sharing recently about The Warren, I want to talk about something that is really important to me, and hopefully clear up some understandable confusion.…

  2. 13 August 2026

    Roast Glasbren Vegetable Salad with Cannellini Beans

    A simple celebration of what’s growing now

  3. 9 August 2026

    The next chapter begins

    It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post. The last one was on 16 May, and a lot has happened since then. The truth is, I’ve been wrestling with the future of The Warren f…

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