Board game cafés in Belfast

Zero mapped board game cafés in Belfast, Northern Ireland — for now. We checked OpenStreetMap within about 40 km of Belfast for board game cafés. No hits yet, which most often means the places are there but unmapped, not absent. This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so a blank today can be a full guide tomorrow.

Why game cafés matter

A board game café is a town's living room: cheap, social, no screens required. They turn strangers into regulars and regulars into friends. That's why this page exists even with nothing to list — we'd rather show an honest blank than invent venues in Belfast.

Belfast sits about 55° north of the equator, so it gets proper seasons. Winter is peak game-night season: dark early evenings, the perfect excuse to gather a group around a table for three hours.

Every spot that gets mapped here appears in alphabetical order with what the sources know: address, hours, website. No sponsored slots, ever.

Game night smarts for Belfast

No mapped game spots yet, but the game-night skills work anywhere. Four worth knowing:

• Thank the teacher. A good games teacher makes the night. Tell them, tip them, come back.
• End with a quick filler. A ten-minute card game after the big one sends everyone home happy. Ask the staff for the closer.
• Respect the components. Sleeved cards, no drinks on the table edge, pieces back in the box. Treat the library like it's yours.
• Mind the table time. On busy nights tables turn over. Finish your game, free the table, order another round at the bar.

The kind of venue that belongs here

Somewhere the games library is the point: a board game café, a game bar, a shop with play space. Not a pub with a chess set — the real thing.

When a qualifying board game café gets mapped in Belfast, this page updates on the next refresh with its name, address where available, and whatever hours, phone or website the mappers recorded. Nothing here is paid placement and nothing is sponsored — if it's on the map, it's on the page.

This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so the moment a qualifying board game café appears in Belfast's OpenStreetMap data, it shows up here — usually within a day of being mapped.

How Belfast gets on the board game cafés map

Every listing on Dayfari starts as an OpenStreetMap edit by a local volunteer. If you know a board game café in Belfast, adding it to the map (tagged shop=games (name-matched)) is the fastest way to get it listed here — our next refresh picks it up automatically. The most useful details are the board game café's name, its street address, and its opening hours — even a name and a pin on the map is enough to get started.