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Really friendly place - I went to a Friday Night Magic event for the first time as a newbie to the game and was greeted by a group of super enthusiastic and patient guys waiting to play casually and for fun. I'm looking forward to our next drafting event!

This is an excellent shop with a great range of games. We popped in on passing, my kids couldn't see past the fairly rare Pokemon options. I was impressed by the wide variety of boardgames, both stuff I had heard of but never really seen in shops before, and more unknown stuff. Also really impressed by the table setup - big tables for gaming, that generally looked full of folk playing whenever I passed the shop. Definitely worth a visit.

Went for a MtG sealed event. It was well run and everyone was friendly. Had a lot of fun. Looked like a pretty good selection of board games too

Very friendly group of people, a great place to get into less mainstream board games. Just a shame they didn't have a huge range of board games to buy at the time of our visit (which had been our main reason for visiting). Still we got to play a couple of games which have now been added to the wish list ;)

My first visit was brilliant. A genuinely well run Dungeons and Dragons session. My following visit the next day was very disappointing. The guy took my £5 and then let me sit in his store for almost 3hrs and didn't make any attempt to play any board games with me. Even though they advertise they will spend time with you if you turn up. Considering I also paid this just seemed very unfair.... Unfortunately I won't be revisiting as I live in London. But thanks for the gesture.