Cat Cafes in Barcelona: Where to Go, Booking and Nearby Options

Barcelona’s cat café scene is small, and it is almost entirely about rescue. The two cafés inside the city are run by non-profit cat associations, every cat you meet there is waiting for a home, and the money you pay at the door goes to their care. That makes for quieter, slower visits than in Tokyo or London: small rooms, strict house rules, and staff who will happily talk you through each cat’s story.

The scene also got smaller this year. Gatuari in Gràcia, one of the city’s best-known cat cafés, closed on 30 April 2026 after ten years and around 250 adoptions. If you remember it from an older guide, the good news is that a short metro or train ride still gets you to five places where you can spend an afternoon with cats. We checked every venue below in October 2026.

Barcelona Cat Cafés at a Glance

All five cafés rehome rescue cats. Prices and hours were checked in October 2026 and can change, so confirm on each café’s own booking page or Instagram before you travel.

What to Expect When Visiting a Cat Café in Barcelona

Book ahead. Both city cafés hold only a handful of guests at a time and work on reserved slots, and neither takes walk-ins. Once inside, the rules will be familiar if you have visited a cat café before: no picking cats up, no waking sleepers, no flash photography, and no feeding them anything except the treats the café provides. Several places post a card for each cat explaining how it likes to be approached, which is worth reading before you sit down.

Food is part of the visit rather than the point of it. Expect coffee, tea and cakes, often fully plant-based, and pay for them on top of the entry fee. If you fall for a cat, don’t expect to leave with it. Adoptions in Barcelona typically take several weeks and include a questionnaire, repeat visits and a home check, and associations commonly ask adopters to fit safety netting on windows and balconies first. Staff and websites work mainly in Catalan and Spanish; plenty of English-speaking visitors leave glowing reviews, but have your booking details ready rather than relying on a long phone call.

Cat Cafés in Barcelona City

Both cafés inside the city limits are small, booking-only spaces run by cat associations, and both sit away from the tourist centre in residential neighbourhoods that are easy to reach by metro. You can browse them alongside nearby listings on our Barcelona cat café map.

Espai de Gats

Courtesy of Espai de Gats

Espai de Gats has been Gràcia’s cat café since July 2016, which makes it the longest-running one in the city. It is run by an association that takes in adult cats from shelters and refuges, the “invisible” cats that tend to be overlooked in favour of kittens, and around ten of them share the ground-floor space on Carrer de Terol at any one time. Visits cost €9 per person for an hour, which goes towards the cats’ care, and you can buy extra time on the day. The café menu is entirely vegan: coffee, teas, almond-milk hot chocolate and homemade cakes, paid separately.

Reviewers keep coming back to the staff, especially Sara, who walks newcomers through each cat’s personality and the adoption process. A few note that the room is small and that the cats, not the guests, set the pace. Booking is required through the website, groups of more than four should email first, and slots cannot be changed or refunded. Visits are recommended for children aged four and up, with one adult for every two minors. Fontana (L3) is a six-minute walk, and Joanic (L4) is about eight.

La Gateria

Courtesy of @lagateriabarcelona on Instagram

Part cat café, part second-hand bookshop, La Gateria on Carrer de les Navas de Tolosa is run entirely by volunteers from its own cat rescue. Only seven guests are allowed in at a time, which gives it the feel of a quiet library where the residents happen to be cats. Five adoptable cats were living there in October 2026, and the plant-based menu runs to coffee, chai lattes, seasonal drinks and croissants that reviewers single out by name. Second-hand books cost €3.

Visits work differently from a regular café. You book and prepay a “Gats&Friends” session (€6 per person, food and drink extra) through the links on the website, then arrive any time within the two-and-a-half-hour window, which usually runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. On some Wednesday mornings a “Gats&Focus” co-working session (€10 with a croissant and a coffee, adults only, three people) offers silent desk time with cats nearby. Children under ten are not admitted, and those aged 10 to 16 need an adult. Use the left-hand door, not the vet clinic’s. Navas (L1) is three minutes away on foot.

Cat Cafés Near Barcelona

The other three options are in the commuter towns of the Vallès, each under an hour from Plaça de Catalunya or Passeig de Gràcia on suburban trains, and all three let their cats be adopted. They are more relaxed about booking than the city cafés and double as everyday neighbourhood cafés, so you can pair a visit with breakfast or an afternoon snack. See every listing in the region on our Catalonia page.

Mixu’s Cat Cafe

Mixu’s Cat Cafe in Granollers is the most café-like of the group: a full neighbourhood cafeteria serving breakfasts, sandwiches, tortilla, croquettes, smoothies and a long counter of cakes, with a separate room where rescue cats and kittens live until they are adopted. A sign at the door asks you to order a drink first (a €2 minimum) before going through to the cat room, and treats for the cats are on sale. It has no booking system, so you can simply walk in.

Reviewers praise the owner, Raquel, for how much she clearly cares about the cats, along with the cakes and smoothies. A few find the cat room smells more than they expected or object to the drink rule. It opens from 8:00 on weekdays (mornings only Monday to Wednesday, plus Thursday and Friday evenings) and from 9:00 at weekends. Take the Rodalies R2 Nord from Passeig de Gràcia to Granollers Centre, about 30 minutes, then walk ten minutes. Its Instagram has not been updated since 2024, so call ahead on +34 685 22 28 04 if you are making a special trip.

Momotaro Cat Café

Courtesy of diaridesabadell.com

Sabadell’s Momotaro Cat Café only opened in December 2024 and has already become the best-reviewed cat café in the area, rated 4.9 from almost 300 Google reviews. Every cat comes from the Lliga Protectora d’Animals de Sabadell, and more than 65 were adopted in its first year. Entry is just €1, with coffee, breakfast, cheesecakes and afternoon snacks on top; its own tagline sums it up as “cats, cakes, coffee”.

Reviewers mention the owner, Roser, by name for explaining each cat and making first-timers feel at home, and note that the cats may well be asleep. Booking is through the website or by phone, and tables are held for 15 minutes. Children under 13 need an adult, one child per adult, and the café recommends visits from age four. It usually opens Wednesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 13:15 and 16:00 to 20:00, plus Sunday mornings. Note that it closes for holidays from 9 October to 3 November 2026, after a special cheesecake week from 5 to 8 October, and reopens on 4 November. The FGC S2 from Plaça de Catalunya to Sabadell Nord takes about 50 minutes, then it is a 15-minute walk.

Pingu Cat Cafè

Courtesy of monterrassa.cat

Pingu Cat Cafè in Terrassa has been rehoming cats since 2022, and its menu leans Japanese, with dorayaki, taiyaki and mochi alongside café drinks and vegan toasties. There is no entry fee, just one drink or item per person, and the cats have a quiet room they can retreat to when they have had enough of visitors.

It is also the hardest of the five to plan around. Its posted hours are Wednesday to Friday 10:00 to 13:00 and 16:30 to 20:00, and weekends 10:00 to 13:30 and 17:00 to 20:30, closed Monday and Tuesday, but it regularly closes on weekends when the team is away at fan conventions, and Google’s listed hours don’t always match. Reviews are more mixed than for the others: fans love the affectionate cats and kittens, but several visitors arrived to find it closed, and some mention the smell or the prices. Check its Instagram on the day and reserve a table. The FGC S1 from Plaça de Catalunya to Terrassa Rambla takes about 45 minutes, then it is a nine-minute walk.

Closed and Unconfirmed Cat Cafés in Barcelona

Older guides and map searches still surface places that you can no longer visit as cat cafés:

• Gatuari, Gràcia: closed its cat café on 30 April 2026 when the lease was not renewed. The association continues as a cat-sitting and cat-safety service.
• Catshop by ADiRA, Sagrada Família: a shelter shop run by the ADiRA association that has offered hour-long visits with a drink, mostly booked through Airbnb. Its booking page showed no availability in October 2026 and its websites no longer work, so contact the association before planning a visit.
• Cat House, El Born: permanently closed.
• La Gatfeteria, Cardedeu: no longer appears on Google Maps, and its status could not be confirmed.
• Ninus CatCafè, Manresa: permanently closed.

One last tip: Barcelona has several famous places with cats in the name and none inside. Els Quatre Gats, the modernista café where Picasso held his first exhibition, is worth a visit for its own sake, but you will have to come to one of the cafés above for actual cats.