Gaming pub in Montreal

Started by bayonetbrant, April 28, 2013, 07:58:19 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

bayonetbrant

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/haven+devoted+board+gamers/8302898/story.html

QuoteJoël Gagnon was trying to impress a woman at a board game event when a man looking like a "hobo" with an unkempt beard and hooded sweatshirt interrupted their conversation.

"What's this game?" Gagnon recalls him asking. "I want to play."

Gagnon begrudgingly explained the rules to the man. Two minutes later, they were locked in an intense game of Dominion.

"The three of us were playing together without knowing what would come after," Gagnon said.

Now, two years later, Gagnon is dating the woman, Marie-Ève, and he and the man, Justin Bazoge, are close friends and co-owners of a new bar unlike any other in Montreal. Along with Benoit Gascon and Normand D'Amour, the four founded Randolph Pub Ludique, a gaming pub on St-Denis St. in the Quartier Latin. It's the only place in Montreal where you can sip a mai tai while playing one of more than 1,000 board games.

The best part is, you don't have to choose which game to play or read the rules. For a $5 entrance fee, staff members known as "game counsellors" will choose a game tailored to your taste, skill level and party size.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

TheCommandTent

Sounds like a fun idea for a business.  I wish them the best of luck.
"No wants, no needs, we weren't meant for that, none of us.  Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

endfire79

Great find Brant, I'm ashamed - I live in Montreal, and I was passing down that block today enjoying the weather, completely ignorant of this!  I'll have to try and check it out this summer, after the NHL playoffs of course!
"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

Arctic Blast

They show off some of the game collection on the website : http://www.randolphpub.ca/#!collection/cx0s

Setting up Pitchcar in a pub would be interesting.

bayonetbrant

Quote from: endfire79 on April 28, 2013, 08:34:14 PMI'll have to try and check it out this summer
yeah, but what are you going to do with the rest of the week?

Quote from: endfire79 on April 28, 2013, 08:34:14 PMafter the NHL playoffs of course!
Oh, well that pretty much takes care of all of "summer week" in Quebec, eh?
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

endfire79

Quote from: bayonetbrant on April 29, 2013, 05:56:48 AM
Quote from: endfire79 on April 28, 2013, 08:34:14 PMI'll have to try and check it out this summer
yeah, but what are you going to do with the rest of the week?

I'd head over, but I'm heading over to UK this week for business.  Note to self: should have argued that board gaming is a simulation of some sorts and deserves immediate attention! :)

Quote from: endfire79 on April 28, 2013, 08:34:14 PMafter the NHL playoffs of course!
Oh, well that pretty much takes care of all of "summer week" in Quebec, eh?

You bet! It was a fierce winter, and people came out in force.  Looking foward some to some second round matches with the Leafs or Bruins in town, it'll be interesting.
"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

Martok

That's extremely cool.  Wish we had a place like that around here. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus