Rhuthun / Ruthin

From the Earth (once known as Seconds) has now been open for a year . It’s On Well Street, opposite the Manor House. From the Earth is a café with a difference.   I passed From the Earth one day last week and spied that it was full. Admittedly when ru…

The Craft Centre and café opens Tuesdays to Sundays inclusive. It's interesting that on Mondays there's always a number of parked cars in the *free* car park. Yet, on Mondays, everything is closed on the site.  The threat of increased parking …

Monday 24th was the first day of the summer school holidays. There abounded a healthy number of visitors. (Indeed, the first week was quite busy with them. Not up to the high levels in 2020 and 2021 , though.)  Closed on Monday 31st, even Clogau The …

These days, there appears to be a Huws Gray wagon permanently parked at the craft centre's car park, in the coaches only bay. One assumes they have permission. They may as well be there 'cos in spite of coach friendly status there ain't e…

Seen at the Craft Centre Café R: we all know what they mean but 'Please take a seat and order at the counter' is impossible and doesn't make sense. It could've been phrased better. We'd prefer to see 'archebu' rather than &…

At last, the refurbished Café Rh/R is opens. This is formally announced on the Craft Centre web page but notice the image of the former café interior rather than the new one. You need to spot the difference .

When Denbighshire Leisure Ltd closed Café Rh/R for refurbishment  (or, rather, it didn't reopen when the Craft Centre did) there was soon talk in town that it would be transformed into a Costa Café. The word from DLL was simply that the reworking …

Denbighshire Leisure Ltd formally began operations on April 1st, 2020, in the teeth of lockdown. A bad start. Since then, it has seen a disastrous flood at Rhyl's 1891 and Pavilion Theatre, wiping out the 2021 season. Meanwhile, Café R in Rhuthun/…

Here's the Caffi Rh/Café R menu board, available as at today. There was an A5-sized piece of paper on each table advertising what they called "specials" but otherwise no proper menus. It's been like that or similar for some time, now…

It may not be a run-away 5 out of 5 but we'll take a 4, thank you. The Craft Centre Café Rh/R has been re-evaluated under the food hygiene scheme and it's moves up three places from its autumn-rated poor performance of 1.

Rhuthun/Ruthin has gone to town to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War. In addition to Friday's The Last Bell (the presentation being repeated today at Y Tabernacl), there's The Fallen Exhibition in St Peter'…

It was assessed in July 2018 but the implications have only just emerged. Rhuthun/Ruthin's largest café, Caffi Rh/Café R, has scored 1 out of 5 for food hygiene. 1 out of 5 means "major improvement necessary". We're not sure whe…

Denbighshire council ran a workshop this morning on its town centres, writes an informed source . Note that this excluded Y Rhyl. The seminar started with the leader of the council, Hugh Evans of Llanelidan, stating that the problems Denbighshire'…

The long, wet, snow-filled and, above all, cold winter has passed. It's been the worst since the dreadful 2010 . Temperatures today reached a heady 14°C in the spring sunshine and didn't the town come alive. More people were out than we seem …

Day One was busy but day two of the Open Doors Rhuthun/Ruthin weekend was far less so. Sundays always are slower but, this year, there was morning rain till early afternoon. The county archive nevertheless put on a vintage display and showed some int…

IN MAY, The Candy Shack's "playroom" (for want of a better word) has become The Skin Shop, joining the array of beauticians who are available for Ruthinians' every pleasure. It looks like the Candy Shack itself has shuffled up insi…