Board game cafés in Amsterdam

Board game cafés are the best cheap night out going. Amsterdam, North Holland has 2 mapped spots right now. That's 2 spots mapped around Amsterdam, a mix of cafés with game libraries and shops. The café side is the social one — that's where game night lives. Ask about the games library — the size of the shelf tells you how serious the venue is.

This guide covers every board game café and shop we could verify in and around Amsterdam (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tabletop Kingdom and Koning Bordspel. If a spot's missing from Amsterdam's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Amsterdam game night lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in Amsterdam

1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — cafés keep evening hours, so the listed times matter for planning game night.

The two mapped board game cafés sit on 26 Kleine Houtstraat and 122-126 Emiclaerhof — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Amsterdam game night crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Tabletop Kingdom on 26 Kleine Houtstraat and Koning Bordspel on 122-126 Emiclaerhof. That's 2 stops on the Amsterdam game night crawl.

Game night tips for Amsterdam

How the regulars do game night in Amsterdam:

• Keep the noise reasonable at Tabletop Kingdom. Excitement is fine; shouting across the room isn't. Other tables are concentrating.
• Order food and drink at Koning Bordspel. That's the business model. The cover charge is often waived with a minimum spend, and the kitchen needs you.
• Tip the games teachers. If someone spent twenty minutes teaching your table, that's service. Tip like it.
• Book ahead on weekends. Friday and Saturday nights fill up. A quick call or message saves a wasted trip across town.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Amsterdam — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new board game café in Amsterdam can take a while to appear. For board game cafés we also seed from Foursquare's venue directory, since cafés are poorly tagged on the map. Spotted a closure among the 2, or a board game café we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list cover charges or menus — those change. What we list is the where: real venues from community mapping and Foursquare, with no favourites.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.