Board game cafés in Stratford

Board game cafés are the best cheap night out going. Stratford, ON has 1 mapped spots right now. Just the one mapped spot in Stratford 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 Stratford (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is PPX Reasoning Cave Board Game Store. If a spot's missing from Stratford's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Stratford game night lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in Stratford

None of the 1 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Game cafés skew toward evenings; call ahead before a special trip.

Game night tips for Stratford

A few things worth knowing before you work through Stratford's board game cafés:

• Try the weird stuff at PPX Reasoning Cave Board Game Store. The library's odd corners hold the memorable nights. Let the staff talk you into something strange.
• Play the café's copy, buy your own later. Try before you buy is the whole model. Love a game? The shop side (or the café's retail shelf) has it.
• Ask about memberships. Regulars should ask. Monthly memberships often beat per-visit cover charges fast.
• Mind the table time. On busy nights tables turn over. Finish your game, free the table, order another round at the bar.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Stratford — 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 Stratford 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.