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North Wales Live
22-06-2025
- North Wales Live
Seaside creperie's Gallic flair in charming Anglesey village
It's quite easy to find Mojo's restaurant in Rhosneigr. It's opposite Scarlett's Fish & Chip bar and Gecko, a shop selling beach products and renting out surf boards. You come across it if you've parked in the village and are heading towards the beach. I called in on a sunny Wednesday lunchtime last week. It's been operating for some years and is continuing with its French-themed dishes on its pleasingly diverse menu. You can expect galettes and crepes among the more traditional choices of Chicken club sandwich, Smashed avocado on toast and Rocky Road dessert. The galettes - a pancake made with organic buckwheat flour and served with salad and slaw - include ones with Steak, mushrooms and blue cheese (£13.50) and a Yellow Dot galette with cheese, Welsh ham and a local free range egg yolk. (£12.95). However my heart sank as it seemed busy from the look of the packed, outdoor tables and I worried about getting a seat but almost all the indoor tables were available. I sat there and checked the menu. There's a good range of sandwiches and ciabattas. Steak ciabatta with caramelised onions (£15.95), Halloumi with homemade chilli jam and lettuce ciabatta (£12.50) sounded good, as did the Welsh ham & cheese ciabatta (£11.50). But I liked the idea of a Bloody Mary Prawn open sandwich. It was described as "Atlantic prawns with rustic tomato sauce, mayonnaise, hint of vodka, baby gem lettuce (in a) fresh, multigrain open sandwich." The prawns were lovely and soft, and sprinkled with paprika. The "hint of vodka" may have been there but wasn't noticeable to me, and the lettuce was rocket on this occasion. It was a lovely, well-presented, light meal. There was a nice touch - a warm, grilled lemon which when squeezed over the seafood really gave those prawns some zesty piquancy. The slice of brown bread was fresh. Desserts here include a Canadian pancake Stack with four light and fluffy pancakes for £8. Customers can add a rasher of "streaky bacon" for £2. I was impressed that extra toppings like strawberries and bananas only cost £1 each. The crepes included Rocky Road (£8.50) with chocolate pieces, biscuit, marshmallows and chocolate sauce, and Biscoff (£9.50). This had "clotted cream, ice cream and Biscoff crumble" and I ordered that. The crepe was doughy and warm and came with a sauce and a sprinkling of Biscoff crumbs rather than crumble as such. Personally I would have referred a more conventional, thicker crumble. Checking with the hardworking chef Jeff later he said the sauce was a Biscoff sauce. It was pleasant enough. The vanilla ice cream worked better with the crepe than the what seemed to be whipped cream on my visit, because its sweetness contrasted nicely with the savoury dough. The choice of drinks at the bar includes Brooklyn - The Stonewall Inn IPA, and Birrificio Angelo Poretti lager (4.8pc) aswell as products from The Rhosneigr Gin Company. Mojo's interior is unpretentious. There's a wooden floor with tables and bar made from planks of timber. In keeping with the coastal setting there are prints of a turtle and shell on the wall, and even a bizarre, seaweed, themed lampshade. I'd definitely call in again. Mojo's is a cut above your average seaside eaterie. A visit here sets you up nicely to explore this charming village and Rhosneigr's two beaches Traeth Crigyll and Traeth Llydan. The facts Location: Mojo's restaurant, bar & creperie, 7 Marine Terrace, High Street, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, LL64 5UQ. Tel.: 01407 810737. Open Monday to Wednesday 10am till 4pm, Thursday and Friday 10am till 10pm, Saturday 9.30am till 10pm, Sunday 9.30am till 5pm. Food: Well-presented and tasty with a large, diverse menu Service: Attentive and prompt The bill: Bloody Mary prawn open sandwich (£13) and Biscoff crepe (£9.50), fresh orange (£3), and Americano (£3.60). Total: £29.10. Verdict: Tres bien.
National Geographic
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- National Geographic
Why director Adam McKay believes we need humor to stave off disaster
A few years back, when filmmaker Adam McKay released his movie Don't Look Up—an apocalyptic satire that uses a killer comet as a metaphor for climate change—he was searching for a new way to talk about disaster. 'As horrific as this all is,' McKay says about climate change, 'it's important that we create a culture around dealing with this epic, literally geological catastrophe we're confronting with humor.' When he started promoting the film, he got to wondering: Could humor actually galvanize some kind of response to the climate crisis? So his team did a test: They asked audience members whether they believed in climate change any more after watching the film, and whether they felt more likely to take action to stop it. They also shot a short video with the movie's star, Leonardo DiCaprio, in which the actor delivered his own personal message about the climate crisis. Their conclusion? They could be more persuasive and impactful if they produced more short-form videos. And so McKay—who launched his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live before directing hits like Anchorman and The Big Short—started a small production house, Yellow Dot Studios, aiming to channel all his comedic powers into provoking audiences to save the world. After all, even gallows humor can help process overwhelming events. And McKay's experience as a comic tells him that nothing bonds a crowd like a shared joke. Yellow Dot has now had a couple of viral hits, including a fake Chevron ad that juxtaposes idyllic shots of nature with a voice-over explaining that the oil company is going to kill us all. There's also a Game of Thrones parody in which the zombielike White Walker is replaced by a climate scientist—a character, much like the beast in the original, who goes perilously ignored by the feuding royals.
