EH Gaming

What it’s like

A board game café where you drop in, pick a game off the shelf and find a table to play it at.

This is a café built around a shelf of board games rather than a menu of coffee types, though presumably there's coffee too. You turn up, browse the shelf, and settle in at a table with whatever you've picked. There's no set activity beyond that: it's you, your family and a game, for as long as you fancy staying.

That open-ended set-up is really the whole pitch. There's no session length or structured entertainment laid on, so it suits a family who already knows how to enjoy a board game together rather than one hoping for something to occupy the kids while the adults chat. Whether a younger child will get much out of it probably depends more on which games are on the shelf and how patient everyone's feeling than anything else.

Opening hours are tighter than you might expect from a café: Wednesday to Friday it's 12:30pm to 5:30pm, and Saturday 11:30am to 4:30pm. No Sunday, Monday or Tuesday opening, and no evening slots either, so this isn't a rainy Sunday fallback. There's no booking link listed, which suggests you can just turn up during opening hours rather than needing to reserve ahead, though that's worth bearing in mind if you're planning a longer stay on a Saturday when it might get busy.

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