Board game cafés in Salt Lake City

Zero mapped board game cafés in Salt Lake City, UT — for now. We checked OpenStreetMap within about 40 km of Salt Lake City 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.

Finding game night around Salt Lake City anyway

No mapped spots doesn't mean no games. The usual stand-ins: the library's game collection (many lend games now), pub quiz and trivia nights, the nearest city's game cafés — worth a monthly trip — and open game nights run by local groups. Ask at the library; they know where the players are.

Salt Lake City sits about 41° 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.

And check meetup-style groups online: the players are out there even where the venues aren't mapped yet.

Game night smarts for Salt Lake City

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

• Learn one game well. Regulars have their game. Pick one from the library, learn it properly, and become the table's teacher.
• Ask the staff to teach you. That's literally their job. Tell them your group size and experience, and let them pick the game.
• Bring the right group. Game night lives or dies on the people. Four engaged players beat eight distracted ones.
• Ask about the cover charge. Many cafés charge per person for table time, often waived with food and drink. Ask before you sit, not after.

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 Salt Lake City, 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 Salt Lake City's OpenStreetMap data, it shows up here — usually within a day of being mapped.

One edit is all it takes

Dayfari's board game cafés listings are read straight from OpenStreetMap, which means anyone can fix them. A board game café in Salt Lake City needs exactly one volunteer to add it — tagged shop=games (name-matched) — and the next refresh pulls it onto this page 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.