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Paradox Café

Warsaw role-play café thrust into the limelight after Polish and Italian PMs pop in for a cuppa

Sitting beside a map of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle-Earth with Italian prime minister Girogia Meloni, Mateusz Morawiecki said: “It turns out we’re both Tolkien fans. We believe that together we will defeat Mordor.” Mateusz Morawiecki/Facebook

Billing itself as “a sci-fi and fantasy asylum”, the Paradox Café in the capital’s Muranów district has long been well-known among a certain sub-section of the capital, specialising in board games with names such as Patient Zero, Neuroshima 3.0 and Abyss.

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