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Pawn & Pint is Kansas City’s first board-game tavern — a bar built around a 1,000+ game open library at 613 Walnut St near the River Market. Kickstarted to life in 2016, it closed in November 2024 and was saved twelve days later by four of its own longtime regulars, who bought it and reopened the doors — one of the cleaner “community rescues its third place” stories in recent KC business history.

Description

Pawn & Pint pioneered the board-game-bar format in Kansas City: pay a flat all-day cover, pull anything from a four-figure game library, order from the bar, stay all night. The events calendar leans into the format — weekly trivia (Wednesdays, Intelligence Check), D&D and RPG nights, tournaments.1 The 2024 owner group has framed its plan as community-first — reviving lapsed programming (a Harry Potter club and a Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League) and floating non-game nights (singles nights) — and pours themed cocktails like the Wookie Punch and Wizards Butter Beer alongside prepackaged snacks, with fuller food service planned and delivery/orders available from the neighboring Homesteader restaurant.2

Ownership and history

PeriodOwner / operator
2016 → 2024Edward Schmalz & Jonathan Steel — founded via a ~$20K Kickstarter as KC’s first board-game tavern; original location 221 Southwest Blvd (Crossroads), moved 2017 to 613 Walnut.3
Nov 30, 2024Closed.3
Dec 12, 2024 → presentJacob Douglas, Aaron Nijsse, David Tate, Kat Suarez — four longtime customers bought and reopened it within two weeks.2

Data-hygiene note: two websites circulate (pawnandpint.net, kcpawnandpint.com — both had SSL issues at research time) plus a new post-reopening Facebook page.

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: No official published menu — both legacy websites are dead (pawnandpint.net: SSL failure/403; kcpawnandpint.com: unreachable, re-confirmed 2026-07-24) and the post-2024 Facebook page is login-walled to automated capture; drink/food program assembled from KC Star reopening coverage (first-party owner statements) with aggregator cross-checks · URL(s): https://www.facebook.com/p/Pawn-and-Pint-Official-61577868194488/ · https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kansas-city-bar-closed-last-195002907.html · Confidence: Medium (program shape well-sourced; itemized list and prices)

Cover

  • All-day game-library cover — access to the 1,000+ game library — $7 per person1

Bar

  • Themed cocktails — house pours include the Wookie Punch and Wizards Butter Beer —2
  • Draft beer — rotating selection; no current tap list published (BeerMenus listing stale since 2018) —4
  • Non-alcoholic program — described as thoughtfully developed (aggregator wording) —4
  • Coffee service reported in reviews —4

Food

  • Prepackaged snacks at the bar; fuller food service planned by the 2024 owner group —2
  • Delivery/orders from the neighboring Homesteader restaurant to your game table —2
  • Recent reviews mention quesadillas and pretzels (Brezeln) — kitchen status unclear; may be Homesteader items or newer in-house snacks —4

An itemized drink list with prices needs a first-party pull (Facebook post capture or on-site menu photo).

  • Phone: (816) 631-4263
  • Facebook: “Pawn and Pint-Official” (post-2024) · legacy /pawnsandpints
  • Hours (aggregator-reported as of Jul 2026; supersede Dec 2024 hours): Mon–Thu 4pm–11pm · Fri 4pm–1:30am · Sat 11am–1:30am · Sun 11am–11pm — now open Mondays; Friday opens 4pm (was 1pm).4 Reopening-era hours (Dec 2024): Tue–Thu 4–11pm · Fri 1pm–1:30am · Sat 11am–1:30am · Sun 11am–11pm · closed Mon.2

See also

  • Registry

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Kansas City on the Cheap — board-game pub guide + trivia guide (upd. 2026-06-24). https://kansascityonthecheap.com/free-and-cheap-play-at-kansas-city-board-game-pub/ — library size, cover, events. ↩ ↩2

  2. KC Star (via Yahoo), “Kansas City bar closed last…” (2024-12-19). https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kansas-city-bar-closed-last-195002907.html — reopening by four regulars, names. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. KC Star (via Yahoo), “Kansas City game bar to close” (2024-11-26). https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kansas-city-game-bar-close-171917934.html — founding, Kickstarter, move, closure. ↩ ↩2

  4. Menu/hours re-verification pass, 2026-07-24 — (a) Both legacy domains re-probed and dead: pawnandpint.net (SSL handshake failure on 443; HTTP 403) and kcpawnandpint.com (unreachable); no canonical website exists — web presence is the post-2024 Facebook page. (b) RestaurantGuru (page updated ~2026-07-14): “open now”; hours Sun 11am–11pm, Mon–Thu 4pm–11pm, Fri 4pm–1:30am, Sat 11am–1:30am; recent-review items incl. quesadillas, pretzels, craft beer, coffee. https://restaurantguru.com/Pawn-and-Pint-Kansas-City-Missouri (c) Yelp listing “Updated June 2026” confirms active operation at 613 Walnut. https://www.yelp.com/biz/pawn-and-pint-kansas-city (d) Aggregator descriptions (NovaCircle) of a “fully stocked bar,” draft selection, and non-alcoholic program — descriptive only; NovaCircle also lists an alternate phone (816) 701-9227, unconfirmed vs the primary (816) 631-4263. (e) BeerMenus listing exists but is stale (last updated 2018) — excluded as a tap-list source. https://www.beermenus.com/places/52011-pawn-and-pint ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

See also

  • Registry
Categories

On the record — ks.city/registry/pawn-and-pint · record updated 2026-07-24