Stay and Play Game Cafe

"Sure, you can host game night at your place, but then you’d have to shop, clean, and find that missing Professor Plum card from Clue that's buried somewhere in your closet. Or, you could go to the Stay and Play in Irving Park. It’s the perfect place to hang out with friends (or a date) and try endearing yourself to them by dominating one of the 600+ games available. As you enter into the second hour of your campaign to take over all four railroads in Monopoly, you can choose from a variety of Puerto Rican dishes including a very tasty steak jibarito. Or, if you’re the one who always ends up bankrupt in the first 30 minutes, there’s a long menu of rum-based cocktails to enjoy while you make friends with the people sitting at the table next you." - veda kilaru, adrian kane, john ringor

"Stay and Play in Irving Park is a board game cafe with 600+ games available. And it’s the perfect place to impress someone with how gracious a winner you can be. As you enter into the second hour of your campaign to take over all four railroads in Monopoly and bankrupt your date, you can choose from a variety of Puerto Rican dishes including a very tasty steak jibarito. Plus, there’s a long menu of rum-based cocktails to enjoy after you remember that Monopoly ruins lives, and switch to a game of EL: The Chicago Transit Adventure (yes, this is real, and you can play it at Stay and Play)." - adrian kane

"Sure, you can host game night at your place, but then you’d have to shop, cook, and deal with the laundry piled up on your one usable living room chair. Or, you could go to the Stay and Play Game Cafe in Irving Park. For $5 per person, it’s the perfect place to while away a few hours and try of the 600+ games available. There’s a solid menu of Puerto Rican snacks, like tostones or pastelillos, plus a variety of sandwiches (the steak jibarito is great) and rum-based cocktails to keep you going in hour three of your Lord of the Rings campaign." - Veda Kilaru

"A new board games cafe serving Puerto Rican cuisine, coffee, cocktails, and beer is open at 3932 W. Irving Park Road with more than 500 games to choose from." - Naomi Waxman