Printers kept the capitals in the top case and the small letters below it. The dining room took the name.
Twenty-eight covers in the old shop front, Tuesday to Saturday from seven until ten. The kitchen buys from the boats that land at Honfleur and Trouville and from farms within an hour of the door.
There is no long menu. A short card is written each afternoon once the kitchen knows what came in, usually four starters, four main plates and three puddings, with a cheese board of Pont-l'Évêque, Livarot and whatever the cheesemonger on Rue de la Ville recommends that week.
Through the year
- October to May: scallops from the bay of Seine, served seared or raw
- All year: oysters from the Cotentin coast, opened to order
- Spring: salt-meadow lamb from the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel
- Summer: sole, brill and shrimp from the Honfleur boats
- Autumn: apples, pears and the first cider of the season
Puddings lean on the orchards. The teurgoule, a Norman rice pudding baked for five hours with cinnamon, comes out of the oven at six and is usually gone by nine.
Breakfast
Breakfast is served every day from half past seven until eleven, and until noon on Sundays, in the glass room at the back of the house. Bread comes from the bakery on Place Hamelin before seven.
Booking a table
Residents have a table held for them on the night they arrive if they ask when they book the room. Everyone else is welcome by telephone, and dietary needs are easier to meet with a day's warning.
Play happens in a single room of this house, the loft over the old shop, and in no other place. The Printed Room takes no bets online, opens no player accounts and handles no payments through this website.