Board game cafés in St Albans

Board game cafés are the best cheap night out going. St Albans, Hertfordshire has 1 mapped spots right now. Just the one mapped spot in St Albans for now — check whether it's a café with a games library or a shop, and whether you need to book a table. 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 St Albans (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Tabletop Republic High Wycombe. If a spot's missing from St Albans's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The St Albans game night lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in St Albans

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 37 High Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Game night tips for St Albans

Planning game night in St Albans? Start here:

• Bring snacks to share (if allowed) at Tabletop Republic High Wycombe. Some venues encourage it, some have kitchens to support. Ask first, share generously.
• Ask about the shop section. Many cafés sell the games too, often with a try-first discount. Ask what's in stock.
• Ask about the regulars' nights. Many cafés run weekly open game nights. Show up solo and you'll leave with a gaming group.
• Check the events calendar. Tournaments, learn-to-plays, designer nights — the calendar is where the community lives.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around St Albans — 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 St Albans 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 1, 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 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.