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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:56:57 AM
Cafes Around the World Inspired by Snakes & Lattes:
Except for being competitors, these cafe locations benefit S&L in the following way:
Albany, NY (USA)
http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2018/06/13/bard-and-baker-troy-board-game-cafe-update
Cafe Name: Bard and Baker Board Game Cafe
Location: 501 Broadway, Troy, NY 12180
Owner Charlotte Guyton stated:
"Recently we went to Toronto to visit Snakes and Lattes [a play on Snakes and Ladders, the British name for the Chutes and Ladders board game], which was the first board game cafe actually to open in North America in 2010 and arguably has been the most successful execution of the concept."
Asheville, NC (USA)
https://the828.com/2017/03/23/well-played-ashevilles-first-board-game-cafe-set-to-open/
Cafe Name: Well Played Board Game Café
Location: 2710, 58 Wall St, Asheville, NC 28801
"The idea for the cafe came from Mercer, who reads a lot of news stories and stumbled upon several that discussed the success of similar cafes in Southeast Asia and Europe. Then he read about the Canadian cafe called “Snakes and Lattes.” They took a trip to Toronto, where more than 10 similar businesses are booming, and launched into the business plan for Well Played.”
Berkeley, CA (USA)
http://www.dicetowernews.com/ready-for-robjonathan-new-board-game-cafe-opening-in-north-berkeley-ca/14275
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/05/board-game-cafe-plans-open-north-berkeley-summer/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Berkeley-Board-Game-Cafe-304611081.html
Cafe Name: Victory Point Cafe
Address: 1797-A Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
"After visiting other board game cafes, namely Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, Maghakian “fell in love with the concept. It was bringing in so many different people, not just people who are considered hobby board gamers, but people all across the spectrum.”"
Beverly, MA (USA)
http://beverly.wickedlocal.com/article/20151223/NEWS/151228497
Cafe Name: The Castle: A Board Game Cafe
Location: 240 Rantoul St, Beverly, MA 01915
"Kevin and Ryn took inspiration from a similar joint, Snakes and Lattes, which they found during a trip to Toronto. The Castle is certainly the first of its kind in Beverly."
Branson, MO (USA)
http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_55ab266c-4cd0-11e9-b948-0bac5cb68aea.html
Cafe Name: Branson Board Game Cafe
Location: 103 S. Business Hwy 65, Branson, MO 65616
Owner Les Carpenter said the inspiration for the Branson location was modeled after a board game cafe in Toronto, Canada, called Snakes and Lattes that opened in 2010. “They have three locations now in Toronto, and this year they announced they are planning to expand to 17 U.S. locations, mostly major cities,” he said. “So we modeled roughly off what we saw them do, because we knew they were successful and very popular.”
Bristol, U.K.
http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/01/25/bristol-board-game-cafe
Cafe Name: Chance & Counters
Location: 20 Christmas Steps, Bristol BS1 5BS, UK
“When we first looked into it we came across Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which was doing incredibly well and seemingly opening new venues every year. They were arguably the first to prove that the concept worked, which was really encouraging."
Chicago, IL (USA)
https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/04/04/interview-bonus-round-game-cafe
Cafe Name: Bonus Round Game Café
Location: 3230 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Owner Drew Lovell stated:
“When we first looked into it we came across Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which was doing incredibly well and seemingly opening new venues every year. They were arguably the first to prove that the concept worked, which was really encouraging.
Cleveland, OH (USA)
https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/03/tracking_the_ascent_of_gamer_b.html
Cafe Name: Tabletop Board Game Café
Location: 1810 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
“The trend was born in Asia and Europe, but found a foothold in North America thanks to Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which bills itself as the continent’s first board-game cafe.
Risner said he and his wife Shiva could find only two board-game cafes in the United States when they first considered opening their business five years ago.”
Columbus, OH (USA)
https://www.ibj.com/articles/64990-growing-number-of-restaurants-bars-serving-board-games-as-side-dish
Cafe Name: Kingmakers Board Game Parlour
Location: 17 Buttles Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
“Jacobs got the idea for Kingmakers when she visited Toronto-based Snakes and Lattes, the store that pretty much defined the game cafe concept.”
Denver, CO (USA)
https://businessden.com/2015/11/16/board-game-cafe-rolling-the-dice-on-santa-fe
Cafe Name: Board Game Republic
Location: 900 W 1st Ave #130, Denver, CO 80223
“Meyers – who has spent decades selling and inventing games – said he took the idea from Toronto gaming cafe Snakes and Lattes. “Snakes and Lattes was really the impetus for it; I thought what they were doing was really great,” he said. “I’ve been in this industry for 28 years and done all the aspects of it, and retail, although I love it, is hard to make work. It’s not an impulse buy.””
Exeter, England (U.K.)
http://dailyworkerplacement.com/2019/06/24/gaming-around-the-world/
Cafe Name: Board
Location: Board, 79 South Street, Exeter, Devon. EX1 1EQ
Co-owner Luke Mildenhall-Ward stated:
“I rediscovered board games as an adult, relatively recently in 2011, and was thrust into it, where else, but Snakes & Lattes in Canada. I instantly loved the tactility and social interaction compared with the impersonal digital games most of us have grown up with."
Ft. Worth, TX (USA)
https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/nightlife/article215040615.html
Cafe Name: Game Theory Board Game Lounge
Location: 804 S Main St Suite 110, Fort Worth, TX 76104
“About eight years ago, Patrick Lai was in Toronto on a solo business trip. A lifelong board-game player, he decided to check out a place he’d heard about: Snakes & Lattes, described as “North America’s premier board game cafe.” Just how premier would soon become clear to Lai.
“I traveled in January, and it was pretty cold,” Lai says. “I walk up to Snakes & Lattes, and there’s a line out the door. There are people just sitting there waiting. So I walk up to the hostess stand, and they say, ‘There’s a two-hour wait to get seated.’”
Lai asked to take a look around. He saw people at the bar, playing games and drinking. Couples playing games. People at a table for 10 playing games.
I thought, wow, this is a pretty cool experience, this is a cool atmosphere,” Lai says. “They have multiple locations, so I went to another location ... one mile away. That one had a line out the door as well. This was January in Canada. People were waiting outside to play board games, and I thought, ‘Fort Worth needs something like this.’"
[Not open yet]
Hudson, NY (USA)
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/04/10/board-game-cafe-to-open-in-hudson
Cafe Name: House Rules Cafe
Location: 757 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534
“Cafés dedicated to board games are a relatively new thing. Miller says that the first one she heard about is in Toronto: a place called Snakes and Lattes.”
Las Vegas, NV (USA)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pcdhdT7saToJ:tablesbgs.squarespace.com/on-the-table-blog/2017/8/20/coffee-and-board-games-and-food-oh-my+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Cafe Name: Tables Board Game Spot
Location: 8880 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89123
Co-owner April Pena stated:
"In the midst of all our board game research, Albert and I came across the website of a board game cafe called Snakes and Lattes located in Toronto - Canada. We immediately wished we had something similar in Las Vegas because our city is seriously lacking in places to hang out.”
https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2017/jul/27/game-on-tabletop-playing-spots-across-the-valley
Cafe Name: Meepleville Board Game Café
Location: 4704 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
“THE INSPIRING STORY OF A COMEDIAN WHO OPENED A BOARD GAME CAFÉ IN SIN CITY”
“Inspired by the pioneering Toronto’s Snakes & Lattes, Metivier opened his own—and Vegas’ first—cafe in January 2016. His staff wears shirts that say “Where Everyone Knows Your Game” to emphasize the cafe’s welcoming, Cheers-like atmosphere—”
http://www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/2019/04/15/meepleville-cafe-las-vegas/
“I’ve loved board games all my life. Once I saw Snakes and Lattes open, I knew I wanted to do it,” he said. “I saved up and got everything together, and decided to open up a board-game cafe here.”
London, U.K.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/16/london-first-board-game-cafe-to-open-in-hackney
Cafe Name: Draughts - Hackney
Location: 337 Acton Mews, London E8 4EA, UK
Cafe Name: Thirsty Meeples
Location: 99 Gloucester St, Oxford OX1 2DF, UK
"And much of the inspiration for both has come from the Canadian cafe Snakes and Lattes, which opened in Toronto in 2010 and has proved so popular that in January they opened a second, licensed venue in the city, Snakes and Lagers."
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/313633645/gamehaus-board-game-cafe
Cafe Name: GameHäus Café
Location: 1800 S Brand Blvd #107, Glendale, CA 91204
Owners Robert Cron and Terry Chiu stated:
“In North America, Toronto’s Snakes and Lattes has run with this concept and since opening in 2010 they’ve had lines out the door and a shortage of table space from all the people who want to experience this unique hybrid with a huge game library and good food in one location."
Manchester, NH (USA)
https://manchesterinklink.com/boards-brews-new-board-game-cafe-coming-to-downtown-manchester
Cafe Name: Boards and Brews Game Café
Location: 2003, 941 Elm St, Manchester, NH 03101
“Board game cafés are a relatively new concept, and Tufts says he was inspired to open his own after visiting the board game café Snakes and Lattes, in Toronto.”
Miami, FL (USA)
https://thenewtropic.com/miami-board-games/
Cafe Name: Mac & Chess
Location: 12486 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33184
“Owners Michael Acosta and Michael Noa – a.k.a, Mike and Mike – were inspired by board game cafes like Toronto’s Snakes & Lattes where people can play board games while drinking local brews and eating mac and cheese”
Nashville, TN (USA)
https://www.meeplemountain.com/articles/visiting-the-mothership-our-trip-to-snakes-lattes-in-toronto
Cafe Name: Meeple Mountain Neighborhood Board Game Café
Location: [no location yet]
“In the world of board gaming, and specifically board game cafes, Snakes & Lattes is king. One of the most well-known board game cafes in the world, and likely the first one in North America, Snakes’ star has been on the rise since it started its domination of the Toronto gaming scene almost 10 years ago.”
Newport, Wales
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-pop-up-lets-you-13199185
Cafe Name: Experience Bar
Location: Newport, Wales
Owner Scott Lewis stated:
"It all started in America where board game cafes are the craze. We have taken our inspiration from a café called Snakes and Lattes in Toronto [Canada], which are now on their third store."
Orillia, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/downtown-cafe-is-the-newest-game-in-town-1176718
Cafe Name: Cards and Coasters
Location: 31 Mississaga St W, Orillia, ON L3V 1V4, Canada
Co-owner Darren Minler stated:
“People are excited because it's typically a big city trend,” said Darren. “It's mostly centralized in cities where they have bigger universities and better transit. But people are really excited about it. They're happy they can replicate that Snakes and Lattes (a Toronto board game café) experience here."
Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/calgary-cafes-bet-on-board-gamesboom/article29733364
Cafe Name: Monopolatte
Location: 640 Somerset St W, Ottawa, ON K1R 5K4, Canada
"Although his modern gaming eatery is only a couple of months old, Boxcar co-owner Wylon Wong is quick to point out that it was a couple of years in the planning. "I came to Calgary about three years ago [by way of Toronto], and there was nothing like [Snakes and Lattes] here," he says."
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
http://www2.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-insider/thirsty-dice-board-game-cafe-fairmount-20181017.html
Cafe Name: Thirsty Dice
Location: 1642 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130
“Hendricks and his wife, Lynn, elected to roll the dice last year. During a 10th-wedding-anniversary trip to Toronto, they visited North America's first board-game cafe, Snakes & Lattes. "I was just amazed at how they make it accessible to people," he said.”
Somerville, MA (USA)
https://thetechnoskeptic.com/cardboard-renaissance-analog-games
Cafe Name: Aeronaut Brewing Company
Location: 14 Tyler St, Somerville, MA 02143
“Aeronaut Brewing is in Somerville, Massachusetts, within shouting distance of Cambridge and, thus, Harvard University and MIT, as well as Boston and its bevy of tech startups.”
“As part of his research for The Revenge of Analog, Sax (who says the card game Kigi is an “absolute, meditative, and super-chill fave” of his) spent considerable time at Snakes & Lattes, a Toronto board game cafe that has since grown to three locations. He said such cafes are becoming a “third space” for gamers, a term often attributed to sociologist Ray Oldenburg to describe a place (after home and work) where people regularly gather and interact.
“These board game cafes, like Snakes & Lattes, have really become the kind of hubs of social interactions, of friendships, of community,” said Sax—and that makes them an antidote to”
St. Louis, MO (USA)
http://www.feastmagazine.com/the-feed/st_louis_news/article_b47af2dc-97c2-11e6-b218-fbf8774b8120.html
Cafe Name: Revolution Game House
Location: [no location yet]
“Lee says he's noticed board games such as Settlers of Catan and Cards Against Humanity appeal to many college students and cites Snakes and Lattes in Toronto as a successful example of a board game cafe.”
Waterloo, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/4755952-board-game-caf-s-bring-new-trend-to-region/
Cafe Name: Adventurer's Guild Café
Location: 36 Ontario St N, Kitchener, ON N2H 4Y4, Canada
“Cox said they were inspired by the popular board game cafés in Toronto, Snakes and Lattes, and Monopolatte in Ottawa.”
Wellington, New Zealand
https://www.snakesandlattes.com/blog/month/2017-05/
Cafe Name: Counter Culture Board Game Cafe & Bar
Location: 211 Victoria St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
“Ahmed and Emma stopped by the cafe to tell us about the Snakes & Lattes inspired board game cafe they're opening in Wellington, New Zealand”
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Except for being competitors, these cafe locations benefit S&L in the following way:
- It shows the rising popularity of board games.
- It shows that S&L is a pioneer in board game cafes.
- They may have to rely on S&L for game purchases and distribution.
- They are not expanding their locations at the same rate as S&L.
- Some may get acquired by S&L in the future. (It's already happening!)
- They don't have the name brand recognition that S&L enjoys.
Albany, NY (USA)
http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2018/06/13/bard-and-baker-troy-board-game-cafe-update
Cafe Name: Bard and Baker Board Game Cafe
Location: 501 Broadway, Troy, NY 12180
Owner Charlotte Guyton stated:
"Recently we went to Toronto to visit Snakes and Lattes [a play on Snakes and Ladders, the British name for the Chutes and Ladders board game], which was the first board game cafe actually to open in North America in 2010 and arguably has been the most successful execution of the concept."
Asheville, NC (USA)
https://the828.com/2017/03/23/well-played-ashevilles-first-board-game-cafe-set-to-open/
Cafe Name: Well Played Board Game Café
Location: 2710, 58 Wall St, Asheville, NC 28801
"The idea for the cafe came from Mercer, who reads a lot of news stories and stumbled upon several that discussed the success of similar cafes in Southeast Asia and Europe. Then he read about the Canadian cafe called “Snakes and Lattes.” They took a trip to Toronto, where more than 10 similar businesses are booming, and launched into the business plan for Well Played.”
Berkeley, CA (USA)
http://www.dicetowernews.com/ready-for-robjonathan-new-board-game-cafe-opening-in-north-berkeley-ca/14275
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/05/board-game-cafe-plans-open-north-berkeley-summer/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Berkeley-Board-Game-Cafe-304611081.html
Cafe Name: Victory Point Cafe
Address: 1797-A Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
"After visiting other board game cafes, namely Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, Maghakian “fell in love with the concept. It was bringing in so many different people, not just people who are considered hobby board gamers, but people all across the spectrum.”"
Beverly, MA (USA)
http://beverly.wickedlocal.com/article/20151223/NEWS/151228497
Cafe Name: The Castle: A Board Game Cafe
Location: 240 Rantoul St, Beverly, MA 01915
"Kevin and Ryn took inspiration from a similar joint, Snakes and Lattes, which they found during a trip to Toronto. The Castle is certainly the first of its kind in Beverly."
Branson, MO (USA)
http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_55ab266c-4cd0-11e9-b948-0bac5cb68aea.html
Cafe Name: Branson Board Game Cafe
Location: 103 S. Business Hwy 65, Branson, MO 65616
Owner Les Carpenter said the inspiration for the Branson location was modeled after a board game cafe in Toronto, Canada, called Snakes and Lattes that opened in 2010. “They have three locations now in Toronto, and this year they announced they are planning to expand to 17 U.S. locations, mostly major cities,” he said. “So we modeled roughly off what we saw them do, because we knew they were successful and very popular.”
Bristol, U.K.
http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/01/25/bristol-board-game-cafe
Cafe Name: Chance & Counters
Location: 20 Christmas Steps, Bristol BS1 5BS, UK
“When we first looked into it we came across Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which was doing incredibly well and seemingly opening new venues every year. They were arguably the first to prove that the concept worked, which was really encouraging."
Chicago, IL (USA)
https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/04/04/interview-bonus-round-game-cafe
Cafe Name: Bonus Round Game Café
Location: 3230 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Owner Drew Lovell stated:
“When we first looked into it we came across Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which was doing incredibly well and seemingly opening new venues every year. They were arguably the first to prove that the concept worked, which was really encouraging.
Cleveland, OH (USA)
https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/03/tracking_the_ascent_of_gamer_b.html
Cafe Name: Tabletop Board Game Café
Location: 1810 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
“The trend was born in Asia and Europe, but found a foothold in North America thanks to Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, which bills itself as the continent’s first board-game cafe.
Risner said he and his wife Shiva could find only two board-game cafes in the United States when they first considered opening their business five years ago.”
Columbus, OH (USA)
https://www.ibj.com/articles/64990-growing-number-of-restaurants-bars-serving-board-games-as-side-dish
Cafe Name: Kingmakers Board Game Parlour
Location: 17 Buttles Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
“Jacobs got the idea for Kingmakers when she visited Toronto-based Snakes and Lattes, the store that pretty much defined the game cafe concept.”
Denver, CO (USA)
https://businessden.com/2015/11/16/board-game-cafe-rolling-the-dice-on-santa-fe
Cafe Name: Board Game Republic
Location: 900 W 1st Ave #130, Denver, CO 80223
“Meyers – who has spent decades selling and inventing games – said he took the idea from Toronto gaming cafe Snakes and Lattes. “Snakes and Lattes was really the impetus for it; I thought what they were doing was really great,” he said. “I’ve been in this industry for 28 years and done all the aspects of it, and retail, although I love it, is hard to make work. It’s not an impulse buy.””
Exeter, England (U.K.)
http://dailyworkerplacement.com/2019/06/24/gaming-around-the-world/
Cafe Name: Board
Location: Board, 79 South Street, Exeter, Devon. EX1 1EQ
Co-owner Luke Mildenhall-Ward stated:
“I rediscovered board games as an adult, relatively recently in 2011, and was thrust into it, where else, but Snakes & Lattes in Canada. I instantly loved the tactility and social interaction compared with the impersonal digital games most of us have grown up with."
Ft. Worth, TX (USA)
https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/nightlife/article215040615.html
Cafe Name: Game Theory Board Game Lounge
Location: 804 S Main St Suite 110, Fort Worth, TX 76104
“About eight years ago, Patrick Lai was in Toronto on a solo business trip. A lifelong board-game player, he decided to check out a place he’d heard about: Snakes & Lattes, described as “North America’s premier board game cafe.” Just how premier would soon become clear to Lai.
“I traveled in January, and it was pretty cold,” Lai says. “I walk up to Snakes & Lattes, and there’s a line out the door. There are people just sitting there waiting. So I walk up to the hostess stand, and they say, ‘There’s a two-hour wait to get seated.’”
Lai asked to take a look around. He saw people at the bar, playing games and drinking. Couples playing games. People at a table for 10 playing games.
I thought, wow, this is a pretty cool experience, this is a cool atmosphere,” Lai says. “They have multiple locations, so I went to another location ... one mile away. That one had a line out the door as well. This was January in Canada. People were waiting outside to play board games, and I thought, ‘Fort Worth needs something like this.’"
[Not open yet]
Hudson, NY (USA)
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/04/10/board-game-cafe-to-open-in-hudson
Cafe Name: House Rules Cafe
Location: 757 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534
“Cafés dedicated to board games are a relatively new thing. Miller says that the first one she heard about is in Toronto: a place called Snakes and Lattes.”
Las Vegas, NV (USA)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pcdhdT7saToJ:tablesbgs.squarespace.com/on-the-table-blog/2017/8/20/coffee-and-board-games-and-food-oh-my+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Cafe Name: Tables Board Game Spot
Location: 8880 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89123
Co-owner April Pena stated:
"In the midst of all our board game research, Albert and I came across the website of a board game cafe called Snakes and Lattes located in Toronto - Canada. We immediately wished we had something similar in Las Vegas because our city is seriously lacking in places to hang out.”
https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2017/jul/27/game-on-tabletop-playing-spots-across-the-valley
Cafe Name: Meepleville Board Game Café
Location: 4704 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
“THE INSPIRING STORY OF A COMEDIAN WHO OPENED A BOARD GAME CAFÉ IN SIN CITY”
“Inspired by the pioneering Toronto’s Snakes & Lattes, Metivier opened his own—and Vegas’ first—cafe in January 2016. His staff wears shirts that say “Where Everyone Knows Your Game” to emphasize the cafe’s welcoming, Cheers-like atmosphere—”
http://www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/2019/04/15/meepleville-cafe-las-vegas/
“I’ve loved board games all my life. Once I saw Snakes and Lattes open, I knew I wanted to do it,” he said. “I saved up and got everything together, and decided to open up a board-game cafe here.”
London, U.K.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/16/london-first-board-game-cafe-to-open-in-hackney
Cafe Name: Draughts - Hackney
Location: 337 Acton Mews, London E8 4EA, UK
Cafe Name: Thirsty Meeples
Location: 99 Gloucester St, Oxford OX1 2DF, UK
"And much of the inspiration for both has come from the Canadian cafe Snakes and Lattes, which opened in Toronto in 2010 and has proved so popular that in January they opened a second, licensed venue in the city, Snakes and Lagers."
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/313633645/gamehaus-board-game-cafe
Cafe Name: GameHäus Café
Location: 1800 S Brand Blvd #107, Glendale, CA 91204
Owners Robert Cron and Terry Chiu stated:
“In North America, Toronto’s Snakes and Lattes has run with this concept and since opening in 2010 they’ve had lines out the door and a shortage of table space from all the people who want to experience this unique hybrid with a huge game library and good food in one location."
Manchester, NH (USA)
https://manchesterinklink.com/boards-brews-new-board-game-cafe-coming-to-downtown-manchester
Cafe Name: Boards and Brews Game Café
Location: 2003, 941 Elm St, Manchester, NH 03101
“Board game cafés are a relatively new concept, and Tufts says he was inspired to open his own after visiting the board game café Snakes and Lattes, in Toronto.”
Miami, FL (USA)
https://thenewtropic.com/miami-board-games/
Cafe Name: Mac & Chess
Location: 12486 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33184
“Owners Michael Acosta and Michael Noa – a.k.a, Mike and Mike – were inspired by board game cafes like Toronto’s Snakes & Lattes where people can play board games while drinking local brews and eating mac and cheese”
Nashville, TN (USA)
https://www.meeplemountain.com/articles/visiting-the-mothership-our-trip-to-snakes-lattes-in-toronto
Cafe Name: Meeple Mountain Neighborhood Board Game Café
Location: [no location yet]
“In the world of board gaming, and specifically board game cafes, Snakes & Lattes is king. One of the most well-known board game cafes in the world, and likely the first one in North America, Snakes’ star has been on the rise since it started its domination of the Toronto gaming scene almost 10 years ago.”
Newport, Wales
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-pop-up-lets-you-13199185
Cafe Name: Experience Bar
Location: Newport, Wales
Owner Scott Lewis stated:
"It all started in America where board game cafes are the craze. We have taken our inspiration from a café called Snakes and Lattes in Toronto [Canada], which are now on their third store."
Orillia, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/downtown-cafe-is-the-newest-game-in-town-1176718
Cafe Name: Cards and Coasters
Location: 31 Mississaga St W, Orillia, ON L3V 1V4, Canada
Co-owner Darren Minler stated:
“People are excited because it's typically a big city trend,” said Darren. “It's mostly centralized in cities where they have bigger universities and better transit. But people are really excited about it. They're happy they can replicate that Snakes and Lattes (a Toronto board game café) experience here."
Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/calgary-cafes-bet-on-board-gamesboom/article29733364
Cafe Name: Monopolatte
Location: 640 Somerset St W, Ottawa, ON K1R 5K4, Canada
"Although his modern gaming eatery is only a couple of months old, Boxcar co-owner Wylon Wong is quick to point out that it was a couple of years in the planning. "I came to Calgary about three years ago [by way of Toronto], and there was nothing like [Snakes and Lattes] here," he says."
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
http://www2.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-insider/thirsty-dice-board-game-cafe-fairmount-20181017.html
Cafe Name: Thirsty Dice
Location: 1642 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130
“Hendricks and his wife, Lynn, elected to roll the dice last year. During a 10th-wedding-anniversary trip to Toronto, they visited North America's first board-game cafe, Snakes & Lattes. "I was just amazed at how they make it accessible to people," he said.”
Somerville, MA (USA)
https://thetechnoskeptic.com/cardboard-renaissance-analog-games
Cafe Name: Aeronaut Brewing Company
Location: 14 Tyler St, Somerville, MA 02143
“Aeronaut Brewing is in Somerville, Massachusetts, within shouting distance of Cambridge and, thus, Harvard University and MIT, as well as Boston and its bevy of tech startups.”
“As part of his research for The Revenge of Analog, Sax (who says the card game Kigi is an “absolute, meditative, and super-chill fave” of his) spent considerable time at Snakes & Lattes, a Toronto board game cafe that has since grown to three locations. He said such cafes are becoming a “third space” for gamers, a term often attributed to sociologist Ray Oldenburg to describe a place (after home and work) where people regularly gather and interact.
“These board game cafes, like Snakes & Lattes, have really become the kind of hubs of social interactions, of friendships, of community,” said Sax—and that makes them an antidote to”
St. Louis, MO (USA)
http://www.feastmagazine.com/the-feed/st_louis_news/article_b47af2dc-97c2-11e6-b218-fbf8774b8120.html
Cafe Name: Revolution Game House
Location: [no location yet]
“Lee says he's noticed board games such as Settlers of Catan and Cards Against Humanity appeal to many college students and cites Snakes and Lattes in Toronto as a successful example of a board game cafe.”
Waterloo, Ontario (Canada)
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/4755952-board-game-caf-s-bring-new-trend-to-region/
Cafe Name: Adventurer's Guild Café
Location: 36 Ontario St N, Kitchener, ON N2H 4Y4, Canada
“Cox said they were inspired by the popular board game cafés in Toronto, Snakes and Lattes, and Monopolatte in Ottawa.”
Wellington, New Zealand
https://www.snakesandlattes.com/blog/month/2017-05/
Cafe Name: Counter Culture Board Game Cafe & Bar
Location: 211 Victoria St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
“Ahmed and Emma stopped by the cafe to tell us about the Snakes & Lattes inspired board game cafe they're opening in Wellington, New Zealand”
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