The Box Room Board Game Café

the board game tables tell half the story at the box room, but the coffee tells the other half. tucked along regent street, this place gets the fundamentals right in ways that matter. your flat white arrives with the kind of microfoam that suggests someone actually cares about what's in the cup. not just going through motions. locals cluster around wooden tables with dice and cards scattered between ceramic mugs, but they're here as much for the beans as the games. that 4.8 rating from 343 reviews doesn't happen by accident. it happens when you nail the coffee consistently, when the barista remembers your order, when the space feels like yours rather than corporate territory. cambridge has plenty of chains doing adequate coffee. the box room does something else entirely. they've figured out that good coffee and good company aren't separate things. they're the same thing, served at the right…