Board Game Café — Restaurant in Budapest

Like any board game cafe, this place is a welcome oasis for a cheerful, convivial, relaxing place to hang out and chat over a game. It’s great for dates, friends, or families. We took our kids here, and we snagged a table without a reservation. They have a well-curated selection of games that includes all the popular ones, plus some really great new ones. There’s hundreds of them, organized neatly by category. They also have a list of English language games, and a whole section of games for younger kids (like, around 4-8 years old). The food is tasty, and they have a really solid beer selection. My kids thought the homemade lemonade was not sweet enough, but what do they know—plus it’s not like they were the ones paying for it. Anyway, make this a stop for a hyggelig evening!

P.S. They got showers in the bathroom, I guess in case you work up a sweat rolling dice and...

(Visitor from the UK) Great selection of board games, even though only about 20% are in English, that's plenty. The only downside is that the games boxes are not labelled on the side as English language or not, so it takes a little while to find suitable ones.

Friendly, helpful staff. Nice drinks. Clean toilets. Very affordable, only 4300 florint for two people for three hours, one drink each, about £10 total.

The games list is on Board Game Geek, so you can preview which games you want to play, very helpful.

There are stairs down, so it may be difficult for wheelchair users and others with walking difficulties. I didn't see any elevators.

Definitely recommended if you're in Budapest and want...

The people working there are very nice and it isn't expensive. The nacho's were a bit old and not very crunchy. Because there is a lot of echo (no windows), other people talking (and even hearing our own voices bounce off the walls) was distracting. They have a lot of games. Most of them are in Hungarian, so some games, like Terraforming Mars that have a lot of text on the components aren't very playable for non-native speakers like us. They also have a lot of games with no text on the components, like Meadow that are perfectly well to play. All in all a nice place, but can be a bit overwhelming if you are highly...