Board in the City CIC in Southampton

Great place! I normally pop in for a coffee and to see what stuff they have in the shop, but the games sessions always give the place a great atmosphere, and anyone is encouraged to give it a try if they want to. The team are really friendly and accommodating, even if just for a chat!

Friendly staff, great environment and atmosphere. Will be back!

Incredibly friendly staff who diligently explained how things worked and checked in regularly to see if we needed anything. The boardgames they have available were myriad and wonderful selections abound!

I love it here. Very welcoming and good food. They do a lot for the community.

This place is an absolute gem! I had never been before, but will absolutely be back. Everyone was so welcoming and friendly, explained the rules of the game amazingly (which is a massive compliment because it doesn't take much to confuse me) and checked in on us frequently to make sure we were doing well. The food was lovely, and the milkshake was immense. The overall atmosphere was great as well, I cannot praise this place highly enough.

Recently visited Board in the City with my sister and cousin, and we had an amazing time! From the moment we walked in, the staff made us feel incredibly welcome. They took the time to explain the games, suggest new ones based on our interests, and ensure we had a great experience. Hayleigh, the owner, was fantastic—so passionate and friendly. It’s clear that the team is doing incredible work for the community, creating an inclusive and supportive space for people of all abilities. The atmosphere is warm, inviting, and perfect for both casual players and board game enthusiasts alike. I’ll definitely be recommending Board in the City to others and will make a point to return whenever I’m in the area. A must-visit for board game lovers!

Really brilliant little place. The staff are unbelievable kind and welcoming, they have a huge range of games and everything is great value. Couldn’t recommend more!

Brilliant afternoon, friendly staff, lots of food games to play, amazing food

Had a great evening with 2 friends, food was good comfort food, staff very friendly and helpful.

Incredible Board game cafe with lovely caring staff who are more than happy to teach you a new game or 2! 😊 will definitely be coming regularly

Good place to go to and play games, and good selection of games. They cater for vegans and vegetarians.

We have gone a few times now and we love it ! They have a wide range of games, they never hesitate to recommend games, help with setting it up or any questions about the games. The staff is incredibly friendly. The drinks are good and they have homemade softs, service is fast. Atmosphere is great, couldn’t recommend this place enough !!!

It was great fun! I had a mocha, and it tasted incredible. Would recommend!!

Absolutely amazing! Very kind staff and I picked up a board game of my own! First ten mins there and u didn't want to leave 😂. Thank you to the owners for the experience and food x

One of my favorite places to spend time with friends and learn new board games! The staff are amazing, the food is great and the kitchen staff clearly work very hard and they have always welcomed myself and my group bookings with a friendly face and some lovely banter. Can't recommend this place highly enough!

Love this place! Good fun, lovely people and atmosphere.

This place is an absolute shining gem. The staff are super friendly, nice, and helpful. The food and drink is very fairly priced and enjoyable. And paying an entrance fee rather than hourly is such good value. Plenty of games to choose from and welcome to bring your own or run your own tabletop games. But seriously the staff are just 10/10

Found this place by accident on route to Brighton. Took part in the quiz that was great fun. We loved it so much we went back on way home to Cornwall. The staff were really lovely, the customers all engrossed in the board games.All age groups. Lovely atmosphere. In fact this visit was the highlight of our weekend. We had such fun. Wish we had similar in St Austell. Food basic, cheap and cheerful loved the fries. If you’re in the area give it a try. “What you got to loose but the game” 😂😂😂

Absolutely amazing place. The staff are unbelievably friendly, willing to help explain games, and are so knowledgeable they can recommend you games you end up loving. I enjoy the way the food menu is set up, too - super customisable and with a lot of options. Very fun place all round and for a really generous rate (I felt bad not spending more for the length of time we were able to stay there playing!) Wonderful experience.

Really loved it here. The staff are really friendly. Also an innovative way to spend a date night here.

Love this place and the staff. Great food, drink and games. They're also brilliant with allergies and other needs!!!

Great fun. So many games to choose from. Will definitely being going back again

Great place. Joined an event. People and staff were amazing. Really enjoyed visiting if this place was a animal it would be a board game playing, super friendly, warm, and inviting dolphin. One that can play chess while doing back flips through a flaming hoop while singing hits from the 00's. Just interesting fun and good for the whole family.

Great setting, great game selection, really friendly team and good quality food.

Very nice place with good food and drinks The games are well organized and the staff is really nice !

The kindest people and place. Amazing range of games. The perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon with the kids! The chips were incredible and the kids reckon the hot chocolate was the best!

Employees change your board game to make it complicated

Fab experience, my son loves it.

I love the idea of this place, and how it was executed. Eat and play board games? Sign me up!

Amazing staff who took the time to explain games to adults and children. Huge selection of games. Good food and reasonable drinks selection. Would highly recommend and will be going back.

A southampton gem! Great place to support.

Lovely relaxed atmosphere. Wonderful staff. A whole load of board games, almost anything and everything you can imagine. You need to book in advance as this place gets busy

Friendly and helpful staff with a great knowledge of the many hundreds of games they must have on the shelves. Spent nearly 5hrs there on a Sat afternoon and wished I could have stayed longer. The food and drinks are good value I think, but it's really about the games.

First time I visited this place and definitely won't be the last. The staff are so genuinely nice and enjoy interacting with customers. The food is really reasonably priced and delicious, choice of chocolate (room temperature or refrigerated!) and 100's of games.

Amazing all round. Staff are so helpful and welcoming - recommending and explaining games. Food and drinks is fairly priced and delicious. The coffee is also amazing! Great atmosphere, couldn’t recommend enough!

A fun safe space for all with a myriad of board gameage

Cool cafe with a absolutely fantastic choice of board games to play. Great staff made us feel really welcome. Try the cheesy chips/dirty fries, they were incredible

Amazing little venue! Drinks and card games, they have other games and they sell certain cards, i do recommend!

Good range of games and a great venue for hosting events if you reach out to them. Parking near by is almost impossible until after 6p. It's highly recommended to go with friends.

Really cool cafe,Loads of games to choose from and a selection of drinks and food

A great range of games. Staff are very knowledgeable and introduced us to some new games. It's a very community spirited enterprise that thoroughly deserves to be successful. You should visit, enjoy some games and give your money to a worthwhile community project.

Fantastic little place! Perfect if you want to try a game before you buy it! Loads of games to choose from and fantastic staff that are more than happy to help teach you games if you learn them better by having them explained rather than reading them!

It's just a chilled place to be. Food and drinks are a good price and very nice, really can't fault it.

What a great place! We met some friends here who had visited before. A huge selection of different games and the food was excellent. The staff are very friendly. We will definitely be back!

Stumbled across this place as our daughter was on a cubs trip nearby. We spent a happy 90mins playing card games. It was busy so I recommend booking a table. They have loads of games on offer for you to play and a basic food menu. You pay £5 per person to play the games/table hire, we also had 2 hot drinks and a waffle and the total was just under £20. We need one of these Bitterne way!

Just brilliant - kudos not only to the friendliest staff, but the food could easily outcompete any other place nearby. The coffee? Barista grade. The crisps? Better impossible The team made the whole experience just perfect

Awesome staff, huge selection of games, and good value tasty food and drinks. Keep doing what you do!!

If you want to visit a board game cafe this is definitely worth trying! The staff were friendly and chatty as soon as we entered and helped us to our pre- poked table before we chose what games we wanted to play. The choice of games is extensive and all the games are out in alphabetical groupings. There’s even a wall display telling how long some of the games will take eg 15-30 mins, to help you choose. A staff member game over and playfully explained how to play and was really engaging. I tried a mock tail and it was lovely as well as being really cheap. We tried a few snacks such as their flaps jacks, which again were cheap but really tasty. My favorite thing overall was the atmosphere. People all around getting involved in games and just having a good time while a group DnD game was going in the next room just made the cafe feel fun and alive. Please give these guys and girls a visit when you’re in the area and enjoy a game, some snacks and a drink!

An amazing time out, staff are friendly and the vibes are immaculate. Perfect to hang out and learn a new game

A treasure of a place where everyone is welcome. Hayley goes above and beyond to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves. Alex is fantastic making sure you all the food and drink you need. My youngest daughter loves playing D&D there and Hayley has stretched mine and my eldest daughters board games skills with her vast knowledge of them.

Great atmosphere and great staff. If you're a beginner, novice, or expert, the team is friendly and approachable to help.

Great atmosphere. I play regularly at commander night on a Thursday and it's a great place to play games with new people!

Huge variety of boardgames, there is vegan option in the food , it's great.

Awesome place! Staff are so welcoming and friendly. Love visiting here.

Great vibes, lovely stuff and the food is proper warm comfort food that pairs perfectly with board games. Strongly recommend

All the staff are incredibly friendly and willing to cater to your tastes and dietary requirements with regards to food. They'll recommend you games and teach you the rules if you wish :)

Fun atmosphere, fun games, and pleasant staff!

Great selection of games, friendly staff who knew how to play all the games

Lovely place, great staff and food. If I lived around here I'd be here all the time!!

Fantastic range of games to play for various groups sizes or just yourself. Plus a great menu with a good range of allergy options provided.

The staff at BitC are very caring, attentive and respectful every time I go there they do their utmost to make sure everyone is having a good time. The food is very good, especially for the price and they have good options to avoid a wide range of allergies. A great place to go with friends and play games, would highly recommend.

Really friendly staff who are welcoming and helpful. The place is accepting of everyone and there's always something going on. Food is freshly cooked and tasty and there is wide range of hot and cold drinks available. A great way to spend the afternoon or evening playing board games. If you're new to games the staff have recommendations and will teach you too!

What an amazing place, such a gem in the Southamptons crown. My daughter went for a games session and I was amazed at the excellent setup for gamers and people with Adhd and Autism for example. What a wonderful and inclusive place. Bravo 👏

Friendly and attentive staff. A wide selection of board games and a nice clientele that are open and friendly and willing to help out if new to the scene. Great place to play Mtg and other tcg's. Good selection of food and drink with lots of options for allergies and intolerances.

Brilliant place to learn and play games. The. Owners and staff really love what they do.

Booking is pretty much essential for a Sunday. Only managed to get one game played, but would have loved to have stayed for more. The food was pretty good, but they're true to their "Fine food, not fast food" mantra, so order early if you're hungry.

Years of visits now. It's so welcoming the team there are brilliant, food is great and there's always someone to help you pick a game if ur not sure what to try. Great for the whole family

Great if you want to play some Magic the Gathering or just board games in general. They serve hot food and drinks including alcohol (should you want some).

What a fun, welcoming place. The staff were all so friendly and made us feel very welcome. Loads of games to choose from and they teach you how to play so you don't have to read the instructions! Will definitely be going back.

A huge selection of games! Staff are really friendly and do a fantastic job of engaging and explaining the games to groups. Relaxed atmosphere where food and drink is an affordable price. Will definitely go back!

Fabulous place to spend a few hours gaming. All staff absolutely amazing and such a nice atmosphere. Such a great place to spend some time

Awesome place glad to support will make it a regular thing

One of the happiest places in the city! Fantastic value for money and great way to spend a few hours with friends

Super friendly little cafe for families and friends loving a boardgame. Hundreds of games available arranged in easy to find, organised areas. I enjoyed my latte despite not winning Ticket to Ride!

Always such a good experience coming here. Great games and food. Best of all is the staff. All so friendly and knowledgeable about the games.

I'm struggling to find the words to explain how incredible this place is and how much it means to me. I would be devastated if it closed. The staff couldn't be more friendly or attentive. There's an endless range of games from my childhood favourites (obviously Monopoly!) to goodness knows what with staff at hand to teach you to play anything that takes your fancy. And if you're not in the mood for a game, simply pop in for the food and drink offering which is prepared on site, generously portioned and ridiculously good value for money. My only complaint is that the prices are too CHEAP... £4 for 2 hours? What other activities cost so little; in fact it's undoubtedly more expensive to stay at home and put the heating on! The whole team excel at customer service with a warm welcome guaranteed.

The staff are so friendly, there is a huge collection of games, and the food/drinks are very well priced. To top it off, it's a non-profit! I love Board in the City.

Fantastic place, people are really friendly and very helpful. So many games to try and experience. Food was fresh and tasty. 10/10 will keep coming back.

Fantastic place for a chilled Friday evening. Will definitely return.

Absolutely adore this place, everyone makes you feel so welcome and comfortable. The food is amazing and it won't break the bank. Their selection of games is immense.

Fun place where we go play quite frequently l!

Boardgames, tasty food and wonderful staff as well as a lot of charity work make this my favourite hang out place in Southampton.

Honestly such an amazing place, they have literally 100s of games so there is plenty of choice, and all the games are sorted in genres to make it easy to find what you're looking for. The staff are so friendly, they are always willing to teach you a new game and they are so sociable and friendly. The food is also really good- they have a really good range of vegan options and it's really cheap as well, I cannot reccomend board in the city enough- the whole experience is really fun. If you're in a large group, I would reccomend booking in advance.

We had such a wonderful time, the team are so friendly, knowledgeable and welcoming. They managed to fit us in without a booking on a busy Sunday and still gave the best level of service. We are excited to come back for our next visit

Really enjoyed coming here. Food decent too

Board Games. Beers. Battlestar Galactica.

Wonderful place! Staff are totally wonderful, food is good but the best thing is the games. So many games! Ask for advice and you'll have games recommended. I've never been disappointed.

Board in the City is an especially special place. The staff are beyond helpful and its very disability friendly, wheelchair accessible with spaces for people who are neurodivergent. The money raised is fed directly back into the local community and it runs a whole host of events including mental health support, dementia groups, community feeding projects and much more. The wonderful staff are always happy to help you find and learn a new game (of which there seems an endless supply) or you can book onto one of the Dungeons and Dragons sessions, or card game groups. There's special sessions for kids and the food is amazing, I've been going a while and love it. Can't praise it enough!

Lovely staff and a huge selection of board games to try out! Very cosy and nice atmosphere.

Great place to hang out with friends and lose track of time! Staff was super friendly and welcoming. Food and drinks were quite cheap.

Great atmosphere, friendly welcoming staff, great experience to be had

Great experience, lovely helpful staff - had a fab afternoon with friends here!

Unbeatable range of games, and really nice coffee

Fabulous community cafe - please give them your support!

Absolutely lovely place with excellent and friendly volunteers. Obviously the key attraction is the board and table top games but the food and drinks are very tasty. I'd particularly recommend trying something new from the drinks menu.

Fantastic! Really friendly place with so many board games to play. Staff are happy to teach you a new game. Lovely food and drinks too. Highly recommend a visit.

A special place to play games, drink coffee and gently while away time.

Just absolutely out of this World for service and food. Board games, well, 900 plus ro choose from. Been gaming for multiple times now. Just love it.

This is the best place for gaming children or adults. They make food and distribute.. Its for the community

Really lovely staff. Very passionate about what they are doing. I highly recommend hiring for team building. Thank you for a wonderful experience. 🙂