Pandemic times, many people are looking for safe places to gather.
Sure, you could keep bingeing Netflix or baking with the same people you’ve been staring at for nine months. Or you could button your jeans (or lace up your sweats, like me) and venture to a board game café.
The Harrisburg area has two board game cafés with an open gaming culture on the west and east shores: Game Table Café and UrTurn Café, respectively. Open gaming culture means everyone can join, maintaining the family atmosphere in both cafés.
For a nominal cover charge or membership fee, you can stay all day, play any of the board games from the vast libraries, and eat one-handed while you move your game pieces.
With a library of over 700 board games and floor space for 56 people, Game Table Café has been in business in Hampden Plaza in Mechanicsburg for five years