Game Café

Two iterations of a board game café, both in historically significant buildings in the heart of Winnipeg’s Exchange District.  The first version (in the back end of a onetime saloon that boasted the longest bar in the West), lightly tweaked an existing coffee shop, including gilding the original pressed-tin ceiling and adding a string of glittering chandeliers.  A few years later the café expanded and moved across the street into a building that has seen numerous incarnations over its long history, including a total rebuild after a major fire, an expansion with added floors, a mod façade, and a post-mod façade.  The new location with its much larger footprint accommodates an expanded kitchen, retail area and gaming zone.  Like the initial café, the new locale is also blessed with a vintage heritage-protected tin ceiling, which is similarly enriched with metallic paint and the crystalline torches imported from their previous home.