Snakes and Lattes
Snakes and LattesSnakes and Lattes is a board game cafe chain in Toronto, Canada, with three venues located at 600 Bloor Street Wes, 489 College Street, and 45 Eglinton Avenue E. Guests pay a small cover charge to play board games for as long as they like, choosing from the cafe's collection of about 3,000 games. There was no wifi available at the original cafe when it first opened as the focus is on playing games and socialising with friends, however, public wi-fi was installed in both locations to accommodate the morning business and student crowd. The cafes serve light food and beverage items, including some draft beers.
Snakes and Lattes was opened on August 30, 2010 by Ben Castanie and Aurelia Peynet, at what later became known as Snakes and Lattes' Annex location. The couple had moved to Toronto from France four years earlier, and came up with the idea for Snakes and Lattes, which they named after the Canadian children's game Snakes and Ladders, from a visit to a Chicago area game store in 2008. Over the next two years, they slowly built up their sizable game collection to prepare for the 2010 opening.
As the cafe gained popularity it quickly outgrew its seating capacity. In 2011, the adjacent property was purchased and the wall between the two properties was demolished, adding roughly 2,000 square feet to the existing café and increasing capacity from 45 to 150 seats. With 7,500 square feet of space, Snakes and Lattes was, according to its managers, the biggest board game café in the world in January 2016.
In January 2014, a second location was opened, a board game bar called Snakes & Lagers. Also in 2014, Snakes and Lattes became a sponsor of the Toronto International Film Festival, offering a board game concierge for interested visitors.
In July 2015, The Globe and Mail reported that a sitcom, Snakes and Lattes: The Show, would air starting in September as a fictionalized account of the cafe's early years.
In September 2015, Snakes & Lagers closed, but immediately reopened in a larger space across the street under the name Snakes & Lattes College in the space that was formerly occupied by the Andy Poolhall bar. The new location features space for 240 guests, a collection of more than 1,000 games, and a combination of the Lattes and Lagers concepts, offering beer, wine, and assorted coffee based beverages.
In December 2017, Snakes and Lattes opened corporate's flagship location in Midtown at 45 Eglinton Ave East, Toronto, Canada The new location covers 10,000 square feet and three floors.
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