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PitStop Cafe

Located on the third storey of a shophouse in the unlikely locality of Circular Road (with scores of pubs and ktv’s downstairs), you will find the Pitstop Cafe. It still looks spanking new, with brightly lit walls painted with orange, green, blue and red stripes.

The coffee was good. Mine came with one of those foamy patterns that take time and effort to create, so I knew substantial care had been invested into brewing my drugs. Thumbs up. I also had a chance to try the food - which was excellent and reasonably priced. My meal was cooked just right and wasn’t some rush job or amateurish.

Pitstop positions itself as a cafe where people can get together and play games. They have a huge collection of board, table-top and card games. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many games in one place before.

You have to pay to play (it goes by the hour), but you can get a package which includes food for the entire group plus playtime. I did think the fees to play were rather expensive, but this was easily offset by the fact that

1. They have a wide selection of games, ranging from logic to strategy
2. The staff really take their time to teach you the basics of the game to get you started
3. When you get the hang of it, they stand behind you to cheer you on
4. Their service is excellent,they kept refilling our glasses with water while we played

I (initially) thought that board games were rather gay (and geeky), but to my surprise I started having fun. Originally I had planned to spend only an hour there for dinner, but I ended up playing games until closing time.

This cafe is a refreshing change if you’re an office drone that’s sick of pub milling after work. Why not try an evening of table top fun with a group of friends while you sip some coffee and munch on fingerfood?

Pitstop Cafe also has a blog that is updated regularly. Schwingg!

Pitstop Cafe
14B Circular Road
Tel: 65355383
Email: pitstopcafe@gmail.com
Opening hours: 12pm to 11pm

There was a familar mention of a certain Thomas Ong lookalike at the Pitstop blog…

o_O

Anyway there’s a Minds Cafe at Prinsep Street also. Of course, there’s the first(?) Settlers’ Cafe.

I been to Pitstop cafe too! Food is good, service is cool, price reasonable, games are fun! lotsa happening people!

A great place to chill out too!!

check out the bossess and you will understand..

i went to minds cafe many times! and i oso thot board games are boring… but there’s a few that’s real cool to play like blokus and UNO! hahaha

will def check out pitstop!

theres a Oasis game cafe at bugis, cross the road in front of Mos Burger at bugis, and walk straight down, on the left side… the food at Oasis not tat gd though…. but I tink its $10/pax for 2hr. every grp of 2 ppl gets 2 free drinks and a snack

rave next time can go liao! BUT I still like UNO beeeessst!

I love board games! I go to Settlers once in a while, and I used to hang out at Oasis very often until they closed down recently. (They’re rebuilding with a different concept at a new location.) Haven’t tried Pitstop, though. Probably should try it sometime.

The crew at Pitstop would like to thank you for your kind comments! Up till now we were still trying to figure out who are you. Nevertheless thanks for your entry, it has help to make pple aware of our ulu place.

Best wishes and blissful marriage. Enjoy your honeymoon and when u back, do drop in at Pitstop, we like to give you a treat!