Board game cafés in Charlotte

Planning game night in Charlotte, NC? There are 1 spots mapped here. Just the one mapped spot in Charlotte for now — check whether it's a café with a games library or a shop, and whether you need to book a table. Weeknights beat weekends for table availability, and most cafés will teach you the game if you ask.

This guide covers every board game café and shop we could verify in and around Charlotte (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Carolina Tabletop Games. If a spot's missing from Charlotte's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Charlotte game night lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in Charlotte

1 of the 1 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 one mapped board game café sits on 315 Main Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Game night tips for Charlotte

Planning game night in Charlotte? Start here:

• Go on weeknights at Carolina Tabletop Games. Quieter, more table choice, and the staff have time to teach properly. Weeknights are the insider move.
• Don't be afraid to lose. Losing a game you just learned is the tuition. The fun is the table, not the score.
• Ask about the shop section. Many cafés sell the games too, often with a try-first discount. Ask what's in stock.
• Keep phones away. Nothing kills game night like half the table scrolling. The game deserves your attention.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Charlotte — 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 Charlotte 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. If you spot one of the 1 that's closed, or a great board game café we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 1 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.