Cardboard & Cider is a board game cafe in Guelph, Ontario, where you can pull any of our 600-plus titles off the shelf, order a cold Ontario cider or a proper coffee, and stay as long as the game lasts.
Martin Tetlow opened Cardboard & Cider in March 2019 in a narrow storefront on Wyndham Street in downtown Guelph, with forty-two games on a single shelving unit and a secondhand…
Reserve a table for tonight or just walk in. The library is always open, the cider is always cold, and someone will help you pick a game.
Contact usFrom fifteen-minute filler games to sprawling campaign titles that take three sessions to finish. Every game is sleeved, sorted, and checked after every play.
Every person behind the counter has played most of what's on the shelf. Ask for a recommendation and you'll get a real one, not a shrug toward the bestseller rack.
We rotate six Ontario ciders through the taps, plus a handful of local craft beers and a full coffee bar. Nothing from a macro-brewery, nothing from a concentrate.
The table fee covers your whole visit. We don't flip tables. If your game runs long, it runs long. We've had groups finish at midnight on a Tuesday.
A significant portion of the bookings at Cardboard & Cider on Friday and Saturday evenings are couples. Some are regulars who come in every week with a specific game in mind. Others are on a first or second date and have no idea what to ask for. Both groups leave happy if they get the right game, and the wrong game can make a two-hour evening feel much longer.
Read more →The most common thing people say when they walk into Cardboard & Cider for the first time is some version of…
Campaign board games, the kind that tell a story across six, ten, or even twenty sessions, are some of the…
Martin Tetlow spent a decade managing the games floor at a hobby shop in Guelph before deciding, in the autumn of 2018, that what the city actually needed was somewhere you could play a four-hour game and order a decent drink at the same time. He trained as a barista in his twenties, ran a short-lived pop-up supper club for two years, and has an embarrassingly large personal collection of worker-placement games. He opened Cardboard & Cider in March 2019 with forty-two titles on the shelf and a rotating tap of six Ontario ciders. He still teaches new players every Saturday afternoon and is rarely seen without a sleeve of card protectors in his shirt pocket.
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