The Print Room served its last tables at the end of January 2024, and this page is kept for the record rather than as a place to book. For roughly fourteen years it was one of the more striking rooms to eat in anywhere in Bournemouth — a grand, high-ceilinged brasserie carved out of the old printing hall of the Daily Echo building on Richmond Hill. If you are staying in town with an older listing bookmarked, it is worth knowing what it was, and where to go instead.
The room it was
When the newspaper’s presses fell silent in the early 1990s, the printing hall stood empty for years before a conversion turned it into a restaurant that opened around 2010. The result was deliberately theatrical: monochrome marble floors, a long zinc bar, tall mirrors and crystal chandeliers beneath a soaring ceiling. It traded on the drama of the space as much as the plates. An adjoining room, the Ink Bar, ran a quieter lounge with a weekday happy hour and live music midweek, while the kitchen served an all-day brasserie menu and a full afternoon tea.
What happened
The restaurant closed for good at the end of January 2024, after about fourteen years of trade. The reasons were not set out in any detail publicly, which is common enough when a long-running independent finally calls time. The Daily Echo building itself remains on Richmond Hill — a piece of the town’s newspaper history rather than a working restaurant — so if you turn up expecting to eat, you will find the doors shut. Consider this the update to any guide that still lists it as open.
Where it sits
Richmond Hill is at the western edge of the town centre, close to the Pavilion and the top of the Lower Gardens, with the beach and pier a short walk downhill. It is a well-placed corner of Bournemouth, which is part of why the closure is felt — but it also means that if you had the Print Room pencilled in, you are within easy walking distance of several alternatives.
Where to eat nearby
For a comparable all-day brasserie a step away, The Ivy does British classics from breakfast through to late cocktails. Côte Brasserie on Westover Road covers French bistro cooking, and West Beach down by the pier is the one to book for seafood with a view of the water. The full restaurants guide has more across the town centre and the wider bay.
