Eat and drink · Banbury
Good Game, Banbury
A board game café at 64-65 High Street, Banbury, that calls itself the town's first: a large library of games, staff who explain the rules, drinks and simple food, event nights, and tables to book online at £2.50 an adult an hour.
A wet-afternoon answer in the middle of Banbury: pick a game from the wall and have the staff teach it to you. Come for the games rather than a meal, because reviewers call the food limited. Book, since one reviewer found it turning walk-ins away, and check the hours first because the site does not print them.
- Good: Large selection of board games, with staff on hand to explain them
- Good: Book a table online at £2.50 an adult an hour; Dungeons & Dragons sessions are booked the same way
- Good: Regular event nights and a shop
- Good: In the town centre, on High Street
- Worth knowing: The site prints no opening hours, so check before you go
- Worth knowing: Food is sandwiches, pizza and small hot plates, and one reviewer calls it limited
About
Good Game calls itself Banbury's first board game café. It is at 64-65 High Street in the centre of Banbury, and the idea is simple: take a table, choose from a large collection of games on the wall, and play.
The staff are the point. Reviews on the café's own site and on Google Maps keep coming back to people who explain the rules, suggest what to try and help while you play, which suits a group that has never played anything newer than Monopoly. Tables are booked through an online page, which also takes bookings for Dungeons & Dragons sessions, and the café runs event nights. Its events page was empty when we read it, so ask what is on.
The menu on the café's site runs to coffee, tea, milkshakes, soft drinks, bottled beer, wine and cocktails, with sandwiches and toasties, pizza, small hot plates such as chips and mozzarella sticks, cake and waffles. One reviewer calls the food limited, so treat this as a place to spend an afternoon or evening rather than a place for dinner. Playing costs £2.50 an adult and £1 a child under 12 for each hour, by the same menu, and the booking page takes the first adult hour as a deposit. There is a small shop too.
What we could not find is as useful to know. The café's site prints no opening hours, and its footer has not moved on from 2024. The Google Maps entry showed it opening at 4pm on a Thursday when we checked in November 2026, so do not assume daytime opening on weekdays. Check before you make a journey of it.
Opening hours and season
No hours on the café's site. On 12 November 2026 Google Maps showed it opening at 4pm that Thursday, with tables bookable from 4.15pm. Check the booking page first.
The details
- Food
- Café food
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Café · Shop
Location
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