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Go Play With Your Food, the family-style restaurant-and-gaming-hub on Glen Street in Glens Falls, closed in April, and now co-owner Mark Shaw says he is moving his family away from New York — and management from afar will just be too much. He was unclear about what this means for the space.
“We were making great numbers — over 10K a week,” he tells the Dispatch. “It was going well. But management and oversight was too much from a thousand miles away.”
Go Play was the first tenant inside 126 Glen St. after local entrepreneur Elizabeth Miller bought and renovated the building in August 2022.
Miller wrote in a text to the Dispatch that she is currently meeting with possible tenants.
Asked if the new tenant was a restaurant, she responded: “I’m not sure restaurant is the correct term, but it’s a food establishment.”
She also owns a number of buildings in that neighborhood, Fenimore Square. The nearby Park & Elm restaurant, cafe and market is operated by her son.
When running, the Go Play with Your Food served pizza, burgers, quesadillas and similar food along with soft drinks and beer.
Large tables inside could be rented, and hundreds of board games on the shelves along the walls were free to play. Other games could be purchased. The restaurant also hosted theme nights and game competitions.
Shaw is the president of StoredTech, an IT managed services provider, with offices in Queensbury, Albany and Raleigh, North Carolina. Ownership of the restaurant began with Shaw and others from StoredTech co-owning the establishment.
Shaw wrote that they have the inventory in storage and teased that news would be coming, but he did not elaborate.
People looking for an option to play, eat and drink may have to go down to Bard and Baker, in Troy.