Yes there is one in the city Nearby. It's about half an hour from where I live. I've been there several times and it's a fantastic place. Over 300 games to play. Nice selection of non alcoholic drinks from teas to fancy lemonades or coffee. Some beers too but only bottles. The food is surprisingly good as well. They make fresh sandwiches and pizza for example as well as a selection of sweets as well as chips etc.
I've only been there to play board games once. The other times we were there for TTRPGs.
Apparently it is looking at the other comments here. The downside would be that on weekends you have to book a table some time in advance because the place is usually packed Friday evening to Sunday evening. Also when it is very full it can get a bit louder which not everyone likes.
I recently visted one in my home town for the first time. I didn't expect much, but it was actually a lot of fun. The food was meh tough (mostly fast food).
There're plenty of boardgame cafes, and plain straight out boardgame playing spaces here in Singapore. I've been to quite a few, the latter I much prefer because the staff/owner are invested in the games, are long-time gamers themselves, and are very good at recommending and introducing games. Being able to concisely introduce rules and mechanics and have a group of people understand them is not as easy as it looks!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Yes, in Santo Domingo! I didn't know it was a more widespread thing, but one showed up around a year ago and has grown more popular this year. It's called "Playboard Café", and their food is also great.
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.
No, never been. I just looked whether there are any in the wider region but looks like only bigger cities have any, so an hour by car minimum.
I don't even have any LGS though, so a BGC would have positively surprised me.
I think I would like to visit a really nice one at some point just to try the experience. On the whole I prefer to play my own games - and to buy the games I prefer to play, needless to say - but going to a café with a nice small group and seeing what games they have could be neat.
i pass by boardgame cafes and sometimes step inside for a tour. Invariably, they smell funky and dirty, and have some seedy smelly dirty people inside. I'm not sure why. But the boardgame (aye even the dnd crowd) is typically filthy hairy and carrying some weird infections. It's sad, since I'm very very clean (Japanese), and smelly hairy dirty males make me feel somewhat nauseated.
In Madrid prices in restaurants, cafes is usually very high. Its not at all what it used to be 10 years ago or so. Even Tapas cost a lot and you walk out with 25Euros per person. And its not even that good. For me a boardgame cafe is more to meet people, try out different games. The food is secondary :)
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