Victory Point Cafe

1797 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA

★★★★★4.7(930 Google reviews)

Crema's Take

This Berkeley spot brilliantly blends specialty coffee with a massive board game library—pay $8 per person and you unlock access to over 800 games while sipping excellent craft drinks and grazing on light food, all while a genuinely helpful staff guides you through the collection. Whether you're a serious gamer looking for your next campaign, friends seeking a creative hangout, or someone who just wants solid coffee with the option to linger over a tabletop adventure, Victory Point has mastered the art of creating a space where people actually want to stay for hours. The Discord community and thoughtful touches like carrying quality D&D dice show this isn't just a cafe that happens to have games—it's a carefully curated third space built for real connection.

What to expect

Slow sitTraditional drinksMeetingsLaptop friendlyWifiLight food

Google Reviews

Nomad Life
★★★★★2 months ago

$8 per person gives you access to over 800 boardgames! You aren't able to leave and come back, but luckily they have food and drinks (including beer) if you get a hankering for something! The staff was friendly and the pizza was good. My husband's beer ended up getting a bug in it and they so kindly replaced it! We will be coming back. P.S. free parking on the street after 6pm

Ivan
★★★★3 months ago

This is my first time going to a cafe where you can play board games with your friends and other people. They charge you $8 per person for you to gain access to any board games from the shelves you want to play and you can stay here as long as you like until they’re closed. You can also ask to reserve a table and buy one of their game passes to save money! The place is very hectic here. There were many people playing board games with their friends. There weren’t many options for me to sit. I didn’t want to sit outside. So, I decided to sit indoors. Some of the tables were reserved and some reserved ones are open to patrons who are not part of the reservations until a certain time. For example, I sat at a reserved table until close to 2:30pm, which is when reserved customers will take over the table. There are plenty of food options here: sandwiches, pizzas, pastries, and cafe drinks. There are all sorts of menus there too if you take a look at the chalkboard. One of them happens to be a schedule of activities. I didn’t participate in gaming tabletops, but I did try out of their sandwiches and their cafe drinks. The turkey sandwich is good and honey lavender latte tastes sweet. My drink came here 10 minutes more than my sandwich, which is quite odd, because usually sandwiches take longer to prep. Not only that, but drinks take way longer to prep, which I don’t know why. I like how the sandwich is prepped with chips sitting at the middle of the silver plate surrounded by sandwich slices. Overall, the experience is great with many people playing board games. I probably should take one of my friends to play board games for experience and get pizza even when I never play board games for years. It’d be an awesome experience!

Maric
★★★★4 months ago

Excellent craft coffee. Tons of board gaming tables. Cool place.

Tony Wu
★★★★★10 months ago

“Came for the cafe, stayed for the games.” Access to the games requires an $8 tab (as of June 2025) while seating is free. If you’re not coming for the games—don’t worry. You can study or work at many a table. Should you choose to game (as my group did), you can sit at tables with reservations outside of the reserved times. Shelves are stocked to the brim with plenty games; we even ordered a pizza to go along! It does get somewhat loud inside at peak times, so outside seating is a good option too. Would come again!

Joe Turner
★★★★★a year ago

This place is **amazing**. They have an extraordinary collection of board games. They are very friendly and helpful about selecting games. They carry actual DnD dice. They have a discord!!! I will bring my friends.

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