Urban Reef | Bar, Cafe, Deli and Restaurant | Blog

Hi, so here we are, a cracking free event put on by Bournemouth Council for the next four days.  Should be great fun and we’ve got an awesome selection of great local and seasonal produce to keep you refreshed and staring at the skies.  If you don’t have time to come and in, take a seat and have a relaxing lunch you can also take advantage of our promenade stall shown here with plenty of quick grab and go stuff to keep you smiley.  Have an awesome weekend and enjoy all the events throughout the day and evening.  We also have live music to finish the weekend in style on Sunday evening.

Since opening in style with a big bang of a beach party in May 2009, we’ve been working frantically every day to keep customers smiling as much as the staff.  Now, a year and 102,614 cups of tea and coffee, 49,098 pints of beer, 17,466 breakfasts and 4,420 bowls of mussels later, we’ve started to build a regular clientele of locals and tourists alike.  As part of the regeneration of Boscombe seafront and the development of the infamous artificial surf reef we like to think we’ve helped transform the tired old Overstrand building into a design savvy, cosmopolitan bar, café, deli and restaurant with decking that sprawls across the promenade.

While the surf reef may be experiencing a lukewarm reception, business is hot, hot, hot with barbecues running on all sunny weekends and a full restaurant midweek for Live Music Wednesdays. The whole team is committed to quality, sourcing local produce and keeping all things fresh.

Feedback is key, we try to get everything right all of the time and if ever we don’t, we will try darn hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again! Good food, good service, good views and a great attitude have kept our customers coming back for more and we’ll work tirelessly to make sure they will again in the years to come.’ Thanks so much for your support and Happy 1st Birthday to us.

Back in January, on a snowy winter’s day, some of the guys from Urban Beach and Reef left the seaside behind and ventured up to the big city. The morning was spent trying coffee at various coffee shops (particular mention to Monmouth Coffee shop) and then we headed over to West London to Hammersmith & award winning Sipsmith Independent Sprits Distillery. Located behind a blue garage door in a quiet residential street & only operating since Spring 2009, once a home to whisky expert Michael Jackson, we were warmly greeted by Fairfax and Jared the

The team at Sipsmith distilleryin front of Prudence

Sipsmith Founders. They openly shared with us how they handmade in small batches London Dry Gin & Barley Vodka using carefully selected botanicals, barley and pure water from Lydwell Springs. Then with a little help from ‘Prudence’ their handmade copper-pot still-  the 1^st in London for 189 year – an intense, aromatic & pure spirit is created. Their passion & enthusiasm was evident & inspiring to us and we feel proud to sell their product at both bars. Please come try them! Of course the rest of the day was not spent sitting by a log fire in a rustic London pub drinking London Pride or having snow ball fights!!

Maria