About MeepleMap
Meeple Map is a UK-focused discovery platform for board game cafés, community gaming groups, and board game content creators. It exists to make finding board game cafés easier, clearer, and more reliable — whether you’re a seasoned hobbyist or someone who’s never played anything beyond Monopoly.
Our Story
Meeple Map started from a simple frustration: finding board game cafés is surprisingly hard.
Search online and you'll often find:
- outdated blog posts
- incomplete lists
- venues that have closed
- or just one result, when you know there must be more
That experience repeats itself whether you're searching Google, social media, or even AI tools — and it usually means smaller, independent cafés never get discovered.
Meeple Map was built to solve that.
The aim is simple: create a single place where people can search anywhere in the UK and find accurate, up-to-date information about board game cafés — opening hours, locations, images, links, and practical details — without having to piece it together from multiple sources.
What started as a personal project has grown into a wider platform that also highlights community groups and UK-based board game creators, helping connect people not just to places, but to each other.
Who Meeple Map is for
- people discovering board game cafés for the first time
- regular café-goers looking for somewhere new
- families, friends, couples, and social groups
- solo visitors looking for welcoming spaces
- café owners and organisers who want to be found
You don't need to know hundreds of games, and you don't need to take the hobby seriously. If you're looking for a great place to spend time and play games, Meeple Map is built for you.
A UK-focused platform
Meeple Map is deliberately UK-only.
That means:
- England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
- independent cafés and venues
- UK-based community groups and creators
The UK has an incredible board game café scene, but it's often overshadowed by larger international platforms. Meeple Map exists to support and showcase what's happening here.
What We Believe
Community First
Board games bring people together. Everything on Meeple Map is built around helping people connect — to venues, to groups, and to each other.
Support Local
Board game cafés are small, independent businesses. Meeple Map helps them be discovered by the people who would genuinely enjoy spending time there.
Accessibility
Board game cafés should feel welcoming, whether you're new to games, experienced, introverted, extroverted, neurodiverse, or just looking for something different to do.
Looking ahead
Meeple Map will continue to grow over time — with more venues, more groups, more content, and more ways to discover great places to play.
If you spot a café that's missing, see information that needs updating, or run a group or venue that would like to be listed, there are ways to get in touch throughout the site.
At its heart, Meeple Map is about making it easier to find great places, play great games, and spend time with people you enjoy being around.