Mox Boarding House

5105 Leary Ave NW, Seattle
(206) 523-9605

Recent Reviews

Amy D

Lots of tables were available Sunday afternoon. Prepare to spend some time here! The food wasn’t good but was a great spot to hangout.

Eli

Cool place to relax and play some boars games. Cocktails weren't tland wine weren't the best but the the mac and cheese was pretty good!

Carole Johnson

Love this place! But I really miss the nachos!

sabrina alena

Just had a few beers and grilled cheese, nice place

Amanda Day

Fantastically stocked and curated gaming store. Rooms for in person gaming, food and a full bar. An amazing atmosphere of all sorts of nerdy celebrations.

Quentin Nash

Lovely atmosphere, and great hours of availability. If you have crowd issues like I have come here during non peak hours because it will usually be full.

Michael Morrison

Great selection, staff is very helpful and very knowledgeable

Cameron

Great store full of amazing employees!

vanushri rawat

Good selection of games but food is pretty avg.

Boosted 38

I’ve always had great success working with card kingdom and wanted to check it out in person.Was a fantastic experience and the staff was very friendly, purchased a bunch of Mtg packs, some singles, and saw some really great sights! The cafe is great also

Ryan Wade

1star because of lack of communication on how exactly their mtg singles pickup service works. Ordered online and 30 min later arrived at the store to pick up cards. Was told it would be a short wait while they get the order ready but that it "shouldn't take too long." Not sure what that meant but I wasn't expecting to have to wait 56 minutes for my cards. Staff was friendly enough but mostly unhelpful in providing wait time estimates. Heard that if you call ahead it's faster but I won't be trying again. Plus singles are overpriced, I mostly ordered for the self-proclaimed convenience but there was nothing convient about it. And anyways I heard they're moving warehouse locations for some shady anti-union purpose so I'm perfectly fine not spending another cent at CK.

Luke Neu (QuestingLuke)

Game shop was good, the restaurant was mediocre.

Elfie Nelson

Decent game shop but the food was tragically mediocre. Probably spoiled my experience going to the Portland location first, which is completely perfect.

Brian Krugh

Workers are great, and the food is great. Honestly everything outside of the items I'm about to complain about is 5 stars and excellent service. I have to give a 3 star based on my recent experience here at Mox based on what I'd give their "Community Outreach" and "Store Layout".1.) Community Outreach-- Honestly Mox, in my opinion, is probably Seattle's most prized possession when it comes to TCG's or board games. Hell, even when Post Malone came to Seattle for his show, he went to go play MTG at Mox. That's how popular of a storefront it is. I am just so surprised that they don't do more to try and reach players together, and get them into their space. No community board, or a discord where people can get together and meet up. If you go to any of the events, especially for MTG it's packed.But, their most recent issue is they put Pokemon also on Tuesday nights. So you just cut out half the space where people can go on Commander Tuesday's. So then, if you get there after 5. you know if you have a job when you can get there lol, you have to go play in the restaurant. They have waiters/waitress there trying to make money because you know that's their livelihoods, and then you get stuck with a table of 4, where maybe 1 guy is ordering beer. So, now the waiter is pissed off because they aren't making money, but there literally is no room to play MTG, because 10 people are playing pokemon in their biggest space and it's fully reserved just for Pokemon. Just like move Pokemon to another night that isn't magic lol. It's like how was this decision made? Is there no understanding of your community, especially with Card Kingdom HQ'd above you. I'm not against pokemon players, but my gosh you're actually losing revenue because people don't go because there isn't space anymore.2.) Store Layout -- Honestly, do y'all need all that space just to house Board games at? Table space, especially for your events is just so minimal. The demand is always there it seems, but they just aren't optimized for it. And listen, I go to Mox outside of Tuesday's and it's honestly dead in those spaces. Maybe if there was more community outreach to get players to meet each other and meet up, this would fix itself over time. As well, there's no sound proofing at all in their space. It's a very open, wood paneled or concreate walls, and it gets incredibly loud in the space on the busy nights. Everyone complains about it. Whenever I play MTG at any other store on another night, everyones one complaint about Mox is the noise.

Chase Dittrich

If you like games at all, you'll love this place. A perfect game store with all of the options, and conveniently a restaurant inside. Have a drink, peruse the games, watch some tabletop strategy. It's a great time. Only minor downside is that the front desk area gets a bit backed up with so many people borrowing games, checking out, asking for recs, etc.

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