Name: Stay and Play Game Cafe
Address: 3932 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL, 60618
Telephone: 312-685-2255
Price range: $$

Stay and Play Game Cafe

Irving Park · Puerto Rican Community-sourced, unverified

📍 3932 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618

Stay and Play Game Cafe is one of the more genuinely original concepts on the Northwest Side: a Puerto Rican restaurant and a 600-plus-title board game library sharing the same room in Irving Park.

$5 cover unlocks 600+ board games alongside real Puerto Rican cooking (tostones, pastelillos, steak jibarito) and recurring trivia/D&D/UNO events

Pay a $5 cover and the whole library opens up — everything from party games to deep strategy — while the kitchen sends out real Puerto Rican cooking alongside it: tostones, pastelillos, and a steak jibarito that The Infatuation singled out as genuinely good, not just a novelty-venue afterthought. WTTW's coverage leaned into the cultural angle specifically, framing the cafe as a place where Puerto Rican hospitality and board-game culture reinforce each other rather than compete for attention. Beyond walk-in play, the calendar fills with recurring events — trivia nights, Dungeons & Dragons sessions, UNO tournaments — that turn casual visitors into regulars.

Rum-based cocktails round out the drink list for the adults in the group while kids and families are clearly part of the target crowd too. Hours run Wednesday and Thursday 4 to 9:30pm, Friday and Saturday 4 to 11pm, and Sunday 11am to 7pm, closed Monday and Tuesday — the site itself calls these hours approximate, so a call ahead for a late visit is a good idea. There's a customer lot behind the building off Harding Avenue, a small but real convenience in a neighborhood where street parking can be tight.

Hours

Wed-Thu4pm-9:30pm

Fri-Sat4pm-11pm

Sun11am-7pm

closed Mon-Tue

🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 312-685-2255

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

🙂Kid-friendly

🅿️Customer lot behind the building, accessed from Harding Ave, plus street parking

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Stay and Play Game Cafe

Stay and Play Game Cafe is one of the more genuinely original concepts on the Northwest Side: a Puerto Rican restaurant and a 600-plus-title board game library sharing the same room in Irving Park.

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