The Dice Cup in Nottingham

Plenty of space, great selection of board games and plenty of events every weeks

Unfortunately I'd love to recommend the Dice Cup, but after questionable customer service, multiple delays for orders (2 hours for a panini and 1 hour for a hot chocolate). I can't recommend the Dice Cup. The staff provided questionable excuses e.g. it's stand and wait for hot drink orders, but then our next hot drink order was brought to our table. Sadly no apology was offered for a 2 hour wait for my food order just a "why what happened to it". Disappointing.

It was my first time going to Dice cup last week and I was surprised by how many board games they have there, there's absolutely hundreds! Plenty to play! Probably a lot of card games etc too. I also like the way place looks inside, great interior and enjoyed my time there too. Only downside for me was the vegan food.

Came here in absolutely raging pain for some food and to watch my siblings play a board game. Though I probably looked and sounded a mess, the staff were so lovely and polite! The lasagne was so amazing, filling and hearty and took away some of the hurt <3 One of my favourite places in Nottingham for sure.

Great vegan food and friendly staff. Lew is the best :) we love them, always takes the tike to explain games and gets to know you! Food and drink is 100% recommendable.

Friendly, Accommodating staff, good food and drink and a well organised, varied selection of board games

A really lovely spot. Had a delicious apple and cinnamon drink which was 100% tasty and great value. The cafe also has a variety of vegan pizzas and other vegan foods. Really enjoyed my visit and would certainly return.

great collection of MTG commons and uncommons 🙂

While it's not the most fancy of places it's always got plenty of people in doing a wide variety of things.

the only board game cafe worth your time in the greater midlands area. staff are passionate, knowledgeable, and kind. vibes are always exquisite. there's 594 games for every kind of gamer (new or pro) and if you're not sure what you want to play then just ask for a recommendation and prepare to have your socks knocked clean off. food, drinks and cake are all vegan and all amazing. don't have anyone to play with? no sweat, rock up solo and you'll be remortgaging your house to buy 'just one more expansion' to take home within the hour to play with all the new friends you made. this cafe has been a home from home for me for 7+ years (I don't remember when they opened) and I've met some of the best people in my life through it (love you Steve, love you Matt, love you Kareem). just go and check it out and fall in love.

We absolutely love the dice cup!!! Great selection of games to play and buy, great staff, great food, great atmosphere and clientele 👌👌👌👌

Came today with my 8 year old daughter to learn how to play Pokemon TCG. I can not stress how highly I recommend this family friendly shop. Amy in particular was extremely awesome and kind and very enthusiastic and helped my daughter so much she wants to go back. The staff were also very kind and the food was great. Can’t wait to go back! Thank you all especially Amy!!

I really like Dice Cup and go there now on an almost weekly basis. There’s tonnes of events and food options that don’t break the bank. I love the hot apple and cinnamon drink but everyone raves about the milkshakes. Massive selection of games and I always enjoy the air con in summer! All the staff are friendly and helpful - and fun in general. This is a place run by a variety of gamers who love a variety of games and it shows!

Absolutely love this place, There are so few 3rd spaces nowadays and this is genuinely one of my favourite places to be. The renovation work has made such a huge difference to the atmosphere in there and I'm looking forward to seeing more work done.

We had fun playing board games! The food was a bit hit or miss, none of us liked the vegan cheese on the loaded fries, but I definitely recommend a milkshake!

Went to a card game tournament today. Well run, friendly staff and the food was amazing.

Great place to go to if you love card games board games and everyone here is super nice and it's great service

I recently attended here for a Play!Pokemon Go Cup. The service and organisation was excellent and the venue provided a great atmosphere for the event. I would thoroughly recommend The Dice Cup. Amy, who was running the event, was exceptional in terms of both the running of the event and general friendliness and willingness to help those attending. I look forward to returning for more events.

Brilliant, friendly and a good place to spend a Saturday.

A great independent games shop run by lovely friendly people.

Great place for all the family to go and enjoy some time together playing games. Always busy.

Lovely place. Food is really good quality for the price and being vegetarian. Nice atmosphere with nice staff

Very friendly and knowledgeable team, great place for vegans and veggies alie

A great place to meet with friends, loads of board games available and very helpful staff. Friendly environment

Me and my partner visited two board game cafes in Nottingham; this one was our favourite out of the two by leaps and bounds. It’s 8£ per person per day, which is incredibly good value. If you keep your ticket you can leave and come back throughout the day at no extra charge. The board games are clean, something I unfortunately cannot say for the other board game cafe. Some of the games are also sleeved which is great. The atmosphere is very inviting, whether a seasoned player or completely new. There is also a labelling system which orders game by difficulty, popularity and genre. Making the types of games you want to play easy to find and neatly ordered. A huge selection. All the staff were welcoming and good at explaining how the labelling system works, we also got given a free milkshake which was lovely of them. They have a discord server, free WiFi and tons of events clearly labelled and timetabled.The food is also very affordable. The staff explained how the place worked when we entered, and again was very attentive, letting us know if we wanted any recommendations then we can ask. The toilets have free sanitary pads and tampons which is a small but again, attentive detail that’s much appreciated. I will say the toilets could do with a good clean though. Will definitely visit regularly, thank you ⭐️😄

Great service and wide selection. £8 per person all day which is reasonable given the amount of games on offer. Cleanliness was an issue and rubbish wasn’t being collected and tables weren’t being cleaned regularly enough. Community is friendly and helpful - you can tell as soon as you walk in the environment is welcoming and open to anyone, especially neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ people. Otherwise I would like to see something done about the smell. There is a musky damp odour mixed with a body odour smell inside the building and it isn’t the most pleasant especially to people sensitive to bad smells. Obviously the hygiene of other visitors isn’t my business but some air fresheners or increased ventilation would be a nice touch.

been in store before and very helpful! made an order online last week and 1 item was unavailable so offered refund or exchange (I took exchange). fast and prompt response. Great customer service 👌 thanks!

Only giving it 4 stars because they really need to sort out some (themed?) curtains/blinds for most of the windows (upstairs) to stop the place feeling so cold in the autumn (staff unwilling to turn the heating on); most people wearing multiple layers nowadays - some wearing exactly what they would wear outside! (Truthful) Edit when seeing The Dice Cup's prompt response: I asked a member of staff if it was possible to put the heating on and the staff member said the Dice cup was cold due to the many exposed windows (hence my suggestion of curtains/blinds) - the staff not asking around to see if any other customers wanted the heating on (just stating firmly the heating would not be on this time of the year). I understand heating costs more than ever nowadays (and I am eco-concious) hence the curtains/blinds suggestion too . Edit (upon Google prompting me for an updated review): there's been a few windows covered with (what looks like) bedsheet material to keep the heat in I guess...Material could have been used for the rest of the panes during the colder months for it to feel significantly different. Now living with someone who has a dog we're very grateful The Dice Cup is dog friendly

Went on a thursday. Waited for 2 hours and food never came. Order a burger and regular fries with a milkshake. went to check on the progress after over an hour and they hadn't even started it, it was not busy at all. Told me it wouldn't be long. Went again at 2 hours and it still wasn't made. Never even apologised for it.

Large board game shop with plenty of events for everything, from yugioh, magic the gathering and flesh and blood, to chess, dnd and warhammer. You'll find plenty to love here with in house food, events and tables for all kinds of games

Fantastic gaming cafe, with friendly and knowledgeable staff, and a huge selection of games.

Still the best store for board games and board game accessories. All food is vegan, all drinks are vegan, pretty sure the dice are vegan too but I haven't opened any up to find flesh in them yet. Great store, great staff, deserving of praise and worship for dealing with the high quantity of children during Pokémon days.

Fantastic place to come and play games with your friends, whether you've got your own, or you pay to play their own in store. Very crowded and reservations are advised. Staff are wonderful and quite chilled out. Never had a problem and they're wonderful people. You'll not get judged for being yourself. LGBT+ Super Friendly. Food is decent, it is all vegan however. Some items can hit the spot whilst others may just miss the mark, but overall pretty good. It's the only place that I know that can do lactose free milkshakes and do it well. Atmosphere is great as everyone is playing games and chilling as intended, but once it's crowded, it can become very overwhelming and very quickly. The bathrooms are decent, but for people like my wife who is disabled, it can be a bit hard to use properly. The variety of games is fantastic, ranging from single player board games to groups of 16. I'm not sure how far it goes up, but there plenty for everyone. There's tournaments for popular games such as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering and others to participate in. They also have a dedicated room you can book for D&D.

Good value rate for a stay and play session. Wide range of food and cafe drinks/milkshakes. Place looks a bit tired. Board games need replacing- fading , ripped and/or sticky. Been to several board game cafes before and this isn't the best, I will be honest 😔

The cafe offers such a large area for board gamers. There are a wide range of board games. Playing board games in an area with large windows is so fun.

Wow, you need to visit and try the raspberry and gin cheesecake, wow, amazing!

stumbled across this place during my time in nottingham last year and i got myself a vegan chicken burger (cant remember the name exactly now!) but to this day i keep thinking about that burger. the food options were so varied and decently price! such a nice atmosphere as well and friendly staff, i only wish i knew about it sooner and got to go with a group to fully experience it.

Nice gaming board cafe, unfortunately the food isn’t good as they taste quite bland. However on their discord. Not very friendly as some aren’t quite unpleasant. And spamming to promote their content needs to be on enable. With selling TGC is expensive now Edit: got a reply, unfortunately they didn’t see the matter of the issue. How disappointing

Great place to play some games and have snacks and drinks. Bring your own games or play from a good selection of theirs. Proper gaming tables. Vegan friendly.

You can eat here and play lots of games but only went in to buy a game They were very helpful

Cheap and good vegan food, a wealth of great games to play and stuff to buy. (The only thing I can knock them on: the kitchen always seems to be closing early due to lack of staff)

Great place to hang out with friends the employees are friendly and welcoming the the food is all vegan which is a little bit disappointing but there is always something to choose from also would like a little bit more variety in sugar free drinks for those who are diabetic

Great food and selection of games!!

A wonderfully welcoming atmosphere with helpful staff and great vegan options. Very queer and LGBTQI friendly and my favourite place to play board games and Pokémon tcg!

Spent the day here for only £6 each! Thoroughly enjoyed trying out new games that I hadn't played before. Some games were damaged or had pieces missing however I guess that happens when so many people are coming in and out playing different games. Food was average but wasn't expecting anything amazing as you go for the games not the food. It was good enough for a snack while you're playing some games. Staff were friendly, helpful and welcoming on our first visit. Looking forward to going again!

Great place, one of a kind. Nice, chill, laid back atmosphere. Decent food, especially for primary vegan options. Customer service can often fluctuate from pretty good by someone who's passionate about their job alongside the games, to pretty poor by, I'm not too sure ok how else to say it, but corporate vibes, emotionless, tired, just wants to get paid, do the bare minimum, gets treated poorly. I can get it in a fitting scenario but to see such a contrast between the employees is interesting to say the least/for lack of a better term. It's great it every aspect but is slightly let down by the customer service, i guess is a simple way to put it. Although, this shouldn't demotivate you from trying this place out for yourselves as it is still pretty subjective, as some people may prefer the corporate, chill, minimalistic service.

Absolutely delightful space with fantastic staff. Been here a few times with friends to play boardgames. They have a good selection and the price per person to play is very reasonable at £6pp without a time limit. They are also fully vegan with a good selection of snack and hot food. The Nachos are excellent.

some games are old, missing pieces and falling apart found several hairs in different items of food- food was fairly cheap and tasted good, except from the pizza. garlic bread was tasteless. employees were kind and friendly, however not great customer service- took them literally 4 hours to clear up our plates from our table and took 30 mins for a latte. atmosphere is great, a great selection of games but missing some great ones like articulate, logo board game, linkee etc. good entry price.

Amazing and friendly staff, really fun atmosphere, weekly events, and the food is always quick, fresh and tasty

I play pokemon on a Tuesday nights and Saturdays trade and play days when I'm not at work the staff are really friendly and very easy to talk l. The dice cup is a fantastic place to chill out and meet new people and friends with in the Community it's a fantastic place to go to if it's pokemon, Magic, or games that you enjoy playing. thank you the dice cup team

really friendly staff and populace, come here multiple times a week :)

I really enjoyed playing the pokemon tornument. Everyone is really friendly.

Very welcoming place with friendly staff would recommend

Unique and friendly game cafe with a lovely community feeling.

Great place. I play Pokémon TCG here ever Tuesday for Pokémon. It feels like a place away from home.

This is a great environment to play and hang out with friends, the service it’s carefully tailored to your experience. The staff are incredible

Very very friendly staff and the atmosphere is lovely. Just a great place to meet up with your friends and play whatever games you want. Staff are helpful and accommodating and they have a lot of activities on offer if you don't bring your own games. Prices are very reasonable and food and drink is nice too.

Love this place, we came on Saturday for a gaming meetup and enjoyed our stay in the store. We stayed for a few hours and the coffee was amazing. I recommend the latte with coconut milk. Cheap single pokemon cards at 10p each and giving away free energy cards this is a kids paradise

Great place to be. My first time with friends and thoroughly enjoyed learning new games. Sooo many to choose from.

Super friendly staff and other players, plenty of board games to choose from, now serve beer and there's table service without needing an app.

Love to see it's fully vegan. Amazing staff, generous prizing for TCG tournaments is amazing. Fantastic board game selection and plenty of space for wheelchair users.

Absolutely loved it, would love to go more in the future! Food is great, people are great and prizing for tournaments is insane!

Have visited the place couple of times and it's always amazing how the mood gets built up. Guess the atmosphere gets into you. Everyone has come to have a couple of games and have fun time like youx

Staff were so helpful, especially Amy. Could not recommend enough!!

Excellent staff, have a lovely time at weekend commander and the board game selection is huge!

It was a nice place visit with family and friends for any kind of games

On our vacation we were looking for a nice place to start our day with a simple breakfast. Since we love DnD and Magic the Gathering we decided to go and check this place out. We were amazed by the sheer amount of items and products they sold on the gaming area (all card games you can think off, dice for DnD and a bunch of other cool stuff). Apart from that they also had pretty good food, with good prices and decent service. Prepping the food took a bit but that’s maybe because we were there just after opening. The next round of food we ordered was way faster! In the end my gf bought a bunch of dice and I picked up both MTG cards from the new LOTR expansion and some Pokémon cards for my collection! Good pricing and good quality products. I sadly don’t live in the area but if I’m ever coming back to Nottingham I will definitely visit The Dice Cup again! Thanks for a good time!

If you haven’t been in a while it’s worth a visit. The place has always been ‘my kinda place/ my kinda people’ but recently they’ve had a slight reconfiguration and it now feels so much more open and airy. A brilliant place the spend a few hours.

If you are into boardgames you neeeeeeed to come here!!! Fully vegan options for food and drinks, great staff, very large collection of games to try out and play, the events are always so much fun! Perfect for dates!

Have been going for years but recently the only way you can get a guarenteed table is by booking. Went in today, was told they had space for a table of 5 but all the tables were reserved. My friends and I were there for a total of an hour and a half before we were asked to leave because of the Pokèmon tournament needing more tables. During that hour and a half we saw someone shaving at their table (which was reported to a member of staff) and several people running around. Overall while I love Dice Cup being turned away as a customer several times because the place is fully booked or asked to leave because more people turned up for a tournament has left a sour taste in mine and my friends mouths.

Great selection of games and friendly staff.

Amazing place! I've visited on multiple occasions to play pokemon pre-release events and each time has been thoroughly enjoyable experience. Special thanks to Amy who always ensures that any questions or issues are dealt with and to Lewis who has been exceptionally helpful with some issues I had encountered with my ticket order. I wish I had a place like this closer to where I live in London!

This is a vegan only cafe, which is a plus and a negative. The selection of food is good, however there are only certain dishes I enjoy. Tables are very tired, which is a shame and chairs are not the most comfortable. Selection of board games are very good, however we tend to bring our own. Price wise on a Thursday at least is very affordable and for me this is the best part.

Amazing staff with a welcoming atmosphere, recommend out of all the local game stores around Nottingham.

The Dice Cup is not only a cafe, but a community hub for anybody curious or invested in board games and a variety of TCG’s. The staff go above and beyond to welcome people while providing an excellent standard of customer service. The G Bread do be hella good and is always served with a smile. Veganism might not be your thing, but they do be cheffin some decent scran.

Amazing food staff and organised play, love you dice cup

Lovely staff, helpful and so many vegan options ♡

Sad frozen food. Rude people. Even tho you buy a game worth 20quid you have to pay for a bag?

I liked spending time at The Dice Cup. Great game selection and a friendly and inclusive atmosphere, just don’t order cola 😂

Took my son to The Dice Cup for the Pokémon challenge. The event organisers and shop staff were great, the food was lovely and shop was really well set up. Great selection of board games to pick from too so plenty to keep myself and daughter occupied while we waited for my son to finish his competition. Will definitely be coming again!

I appreciate the all vegan menu , very inclusive , a nice place to spend your day ( you will spend your whole day here trust me ahah) an amazing lil gaming cafe and my favourite place to unwind and play my silly lil games. As someone who doesn’t have a lot of money the staff where very accommodating to me and are always friendly and easy to talk to.

Great place lovely people super friendly and welcoming. I travel over a hour and a half to come here and I always have a good time and feel safe. The deserts are to die for!! There's such a wide variety of things to do too!! Highly recommended!

Interesting place. The atmosphere is great but there's a lot to be improved on the food front. First thing to know is that the place is exclusively vegan. That's fine and all, I'm ok with vegan food but if you're going to cut out the traditional meat based food then your vegan food needs to be pretty good. Unfortunately this place had really really garbage vegan food. The panini was terrible and just inedible, the burger was ok, and the chips were awful. How do you mess up chips so badly!!? Other than that the service was very slow and the cost to sit and play a game was quite high especially since we were ordering food. The games on selection to play was also quite limited.

Super lovely board game cafe and meet-up space in Nottingham. Awesome vegan range, fun vibes and excellent staff. Definitely worth a visit.

I watched this place grow and even though I'm not down as regularly as I used to be, I often stop by. Great atmosphere, staff, fantastic variety of goodies. Nice place to chill as well.

Wonderful space with wonderful staff! Everyone is so helpful and kind and are always happy to offer support when you're learning new games. I've played d&d there regularly as well as a few starter sessions for Pokémon TCG and Warhammer Underworlds and each time I have a fab experience.

Great staff, great food and great place to hang out and play a very large selection of games. Not to mention how good the mystery boxes are!

Big fan of The Dice Cup! I don't visit often. However, I tend to go with a few friends to play their library of board game. They have a wide range to play from, and for 6 pound (from memory) for a whole day. It's such a good time. They also do events for so much, from pokemon to magic the gathering. It's also a great place to get anything dnd related. The food is also fantastic. I had never had vegan food until I started going here. It's super delicious. Every member of staff is extremely friendly and very accommodating. If you have a question, don't be afraid to ask them!

One of my favourite places to go in Nottingham, everyone is so nice, it's just such a good atmosphere

I really want to like this place, but I just can't find enough good about it. They don't focus enough on any one thing for it to stand out other than a large area with gaming tables for people to rent out. They have a little bit of everything and the usual mass of second hand CCG cards for sale. But never enough of one thing for you to find something specific. Their food selection is basic, the interior is in serious need of decorating and they don't even serve alcohol! XD

I didnt try the food. So this doesnt reflect that. The experience was very much ruined but the lack of management of the kids and teenagers running around during a Catan championship tournament and not a single member of staff said or did anything about it. If their policy is that its a space for teens to run round the tables swinging plastic swords and kids building and knocking over towers of scrabble tiles right next to where the tournament is going on. Then i guess thats a management decision. Hence not saying anything about it. Its their venue. But id go anywhere else if i wanted to play a game. As a shop, the selection of games was good. The final downside for me was its a strict vegan venue which means if you dont enjoy a vegan pallet. Which i and a number of others didnt. It wasnt very welcoming. To their credit, they did email everyone to tell them no food outside the venue to be eaten. But it also meant there was nothing aside from fizzy drinks and doritos available for us. The staff were ok. Not overly interested in people but then you could argue not intrusive if you didnt want a fuss. Overall, i personally wouldnt go back to play a game.

absolutely fantastic place to go, welcoming and friendly staff this little place since opening has helped develop my entire friendship group and social life beyond anything else. honestly so much fun, masses of board games to learn and staff take the time to tech you anything you need to know :)

I enjoyed my experience here overall. I did find the service a bit slow but overall it was good, they were pretty busy so it's definitely okay. The staff were helpful and friendly though. The tables and layout are good and there's an amazing selection of games, and I found their scoring system on the boxes with themes times and difficulties really helpful. The drinks were all great but I hated the food. I had a pizza that came out burnt but also lukewarm so went cold very quickly especially playing games, and was only okay while hotter and tasted awful cold. The chips and garlic bread were also just about okay, overpriced for very basic and not too nice food. Maybe it got cold because they were busy but I wouldn't eat here when we come back, we'll book and go out elsewhere afterwards. That being said, will definitely come back for tea and coffee, for games and the good atmosphere

This cafe is one of the best places to go in Nottingham if you like to relax, with some really nice food and play some board games, if you play pokemon/ magic the gathering/ Yu-Gi-Oh or other cards games it's the perfect place to go. Highly recommend The Dice Cup

The atmosphere is great. The sandwich I had wasn’t, and was just eating it for fuel rather than the taste.

Great place Lots of games to play Had a good lunch Will definitely return

Friendly staff and a warm welcoming atmosphere

Great knowledgable staff, they had recommended and guided us on some of the top rated board games. Entry costed £5 pp, food was reasonably priced albeit bit slow on service but great overall. I feel like the interior could do with a refresh, probably the only thing that puts it down.

An excellent board gaming cafe. The staff and food are excellent. They have a good choice of vegan food. Their board game selections for playing and buying are great. They have a 10% discount for blue light cards, which is fantastic. They are hands down the best board gaming café in Nottingham. 2 suggestions to be even better. 1. Upgrade the worst tables and chairs. 2. Have a fee for game hire, that's for, say, 1 or 2 hours. The £6 rate is great for long sessions only.

A great place to hang out and play games with friends! Only vegan food and drinks on the menu, so a plus if you're into that, I'm not personally, hence the star reduction, but inclusive nonetheless. Dogs welcome too!