By Jill Nagy
This winter, on cold, dark evenings, Mark and Kristen Shaw hope people will find their way to Go Play with Your Food, a tavern that will featured old fashioned board games.
They plan to open in January.
The couple has collected over 500 board games, ranging from classics like Monopoly and chess to the more esoteric ones. Meanwhile, they are renovating a building at 126 Glen St. to house the enterprise.
The tavern will offer a selection of sandwiches, flatbread pizza, salads and “family fun food,” Mark Shaw said. There will also be beer, mead, and wines—no hard liquor.
He said the emphasis will be on the games, not the food. They are not trying to compete with Glens Falls restaurants. The choices of food and drink also reflects the desire to create a family-oriented facility.
The Shaws got the idea for the board game tavern when they were wintering in Raleigh, N.C. They visited a similar place in Raleigh and were soon hooked.
“We liked it. Our kids loved it,” he said. They found themselves going back every couple of weeks.
Mark Shaw is president of Stored Technology Solutions (StoredTech), an IT consulting firm located in Queensbury.
Further information can be found at www.goplaywithyourfood.com.