Boardgame Cafes are becoming more and more common. Do you have any close by? Have you been there? How did it go?
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We live in Madrid, Spain and have one boardgame cafe in the city center. Its called Replay
We have gone a couple of times, usually just because we were in the area and jumped in to play something quick. The collection of games is pretty massive. Many casuals but lots of deeper games too. There is also an outlet section to buy games at a discount. The food is OK, nothing special but fine for a session.
Since its downtown, we do not go that often. Wednesdays they even organize an english-speaking evening which is handy if you want to meet a more international crowd.
My post earlier about the “Evolution of Boardgames” is painted on the wall of this cafe.
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They are decently often in Greece, either as boardgame cafés, or (more often) cafés with boardgames. On the latter it’s rare to have someone to suggest a game or explain the rules so you have to read them yourself. Used to go very often while a student
Sounds cool. What kinds of board games are played there? Classic card games, modern strategic Euro games, party games or any of those?
If you mean in boardgame cafés, they have pretty much everything. In cafés with board games, it is mostly faster card games, some games like Jungle speed or 7 wonders and similar, maybe Catan as well
If you mean in Greece in general, all of those that you mentioned I would say. It depends on the group
Thanks for elaborating. I’m just generally curious what is being played in other countries. As a German, I always played lots of board games and I for myself prefer complex Euro games.
It’s interesting that you distinguish between those café types since here in Germany, there is no such distinction. I only know boardgame cafés.
It’s very usual for many cafés to have a couple of board games, especially if they are near a University
I would say there is that distinction here too, depending on your city. In Hamburg we have at least one of each kind.
Ok, it might be the case that I just didn’t realize they exist where I live. In Hamburg, I just know the boardgame café Würfel & Zucker.
Vancouver has a boardgame pizzeria out of all things: https://www.ludica.ca/
You’d think that handling pizza slices and handling boardgame components at the same time would be a recipe for disaster but it works pretty well somehow. They have a good collection of games and the pizzas are great too.
Sounds like an awesome combo!
My wife and I’s first date was at a boardgame cafe. We haven’t had a chance to check out any of the cafes in our new city yet, though.
sounds like a new date is in order!
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sounds cool! We have some boardgame shops that have some get-togethers once every weekend. These are nice but most that we have gone to have a very limited selection of games.
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I think there’s about 3 in my city. Always seems to have people in it playing something, and event nights look more packed when I go past. But I don’t really have the friend group for that kinda thing though
I would go during event nights! Unless these are different in your area they should be a great opportunity to game with strangers.
One just opened not too far, planning to check it out soon.
https://ragnaroek.cafe opened in my city (Kiel, Germany) last year. Been playing Magic over there a lot and a few of their games. Great experience so far and they have a great palette of games.
Their website is cool :) how is the food?
Pretty good and lots of vegan options (relevant for me). I especially like the milkshakes
nice, very progressive! So its Almondmilkshakes?
I think they have different kinds of plant milk, but I always get oatmilk
There’s a few in my city. Both cafes and bars. They’re packed all the time. I personally can’t get into them but I’m glad people are enjoying them.
Theres a gamestore called die spieleburg (the gamecastle) nearby, they also do gaming evenings etc
This is in Göttingen? I used to study there many many years ago (oh god… its 20 years ago X.X)
No cafes and sadly the closest store that is anything more than a MtG/Pokémon shop is an hours drive away.
We’ve had a couple of people try to open stores but they’ve never lasted. A cafe might actually fair better in the college town nearby but no one has tried for some reason.
At least I save a lot buying online…
There’s a boardgame bar around here. It’s fine - but attached to a LGS so that may not meet the definition that you’re looking for.
Yes, it’s called Pieces. I’ve gone mostly just for drinks because they have good cocktails but I did go with a group to play a little Cards Against Humanity once. My friends live way out in the suburbs and I live in the city so they don’t come here to go out much.
I have a board game bar in my city. It’s pretty nice. They have staff to introduce you to the games. they serve lots of mixed drinks. Those tend to be expensive, but hey it’s to cover the cost of the board games and non wait staff.
There’s a bar and grill with board games near me. Never been. Honestly didn’t know about the place until your post. Thanks for the date idea. ;)
awesome! Feel free to update us on how it was. Maybe another Lemming is from the same area and would love to check it!
https://www.thecornerferndale.com/
That’s it there.
damn! That collection looks impressive!
