Cat Cafes in Canada: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Beyond

North America’s cat cafés started in Canada. In August 2014 Le Café des Chats opened on Rue Saint-Denis in Montreal, and Café Chat L’Heureux followed in the Plateau about a month later. The first has since closed, but Café Chat L’Heureux is still serving grilled cheese among its cats more than a decade on. Our directory lists 43 open cat cafés in Canada, in every province except Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, and almost all of them work with rescues, so most of the cats you meet are waiting for a home.

They’re spread thinner than you might expect. Toronto has three, plus two just north of the city; Vancouver has two, with two more in Richmond; and some of the best are in small towns, from Port Hope to Kamloops. We start with how Canadian cat cafés work and what they cost, then go city by city from Toronto to the Atlantic coast. Every price, closing day and age rule below comes from the café’s own website, booking page or social accounts as of October 2026.

How Cat Cafés Work in Canada

There are two kinds, and which one you’re in depends mostly on the province.

• Cat lounges with timed sessions. Outside Quebec, provincial food rules (Ontario’s, British Columbia’s and Alberta’s among them) keep live animals out of anywhere food is prepared or served. So nearly every café has a coffee counter at the front and a separate cat room behind a door or a glass wall. You book a session of 30 to 60 minutes, pay per person, take your shoes off and sign a waiver. Prices run from $5 to about $18 in most cities, often plus tax, and Toronto’s are the highest, at $25 to $30 an hour.
• Cafés where the cats roam the dining room. Quebec’s food regulation also bars animals, but the provincial agriculture ministry, MAPAQ, tolerates cats among the tables of a declared cat café as long as they can’t reach the food or the kitchen. So in Montreal and Québec City you usually walk in, order lunch or a coffee, and the cats come and go around you. There is no entry fee, and you can’t book.

Weekends fill up at the lounges, so book online if the café takes bookings; most keep a few places for walk-ins. Many don’t admit children under 5, and nearly all ask an adult to stay with younger children, often one adult for every two. House rules are much the same everywhere: socks on, no picking cats up, no waking them, no flash, and no feeding them human food.

Adopting is the point of most Canadian cat cafés. The fee, usually $175 to $495 including spaying or neutering and vaccinations, goes to the partner rescue, not the café. You meet the cat in the lounge, fill in an application, and wait a few days to a few weeks for the rescue to approve it, so you won’t take a cat home the same day.

Canadian Cat Cafés at a Glance

Prices below are in Canadian dollars and were checked in October 2026. Cafés change their prices and hours often, and many post closures only on Instagram, so check before you go.

Toronto

For a city its size, Toronto has few cat cafés: three inside the city limits and two in the suburbs just north. Browse them on our Toronto map. Downtown, Wonder Pet Cafe on Queen Street West near Spadina, on the 501 streetcar line, opened in July 2025 as a cat and dog café run by three women who had been rescuing animals since 2022. Many of its animals come through Wow Rescue, a rescue group in Wuhan, China, and the cats and dogs live in separate rooms, each visited for an hour with staff present. The cat room costs $28.99, or $35.99 with a drink and $39.99 with a drink and cake; the dog room starts at $33.99. Under-18s need a parent with them. It opens in the afternoons and evenings, with hours that vary by day, so book online and check the calendar; walk-ins get in when there’s room. If you’re staying a few nights, here are places to stay near Queen and Spadina on Booking.com.

Vintage Cat Cafe is in Corso Italia on St. Clair Avenue West, on the 512 streetcar between Dufferin and Lansdowne. The café side, all ornate wallpaper, mirrors and candlesticks, serves Turkish coffee, fresh juices, waffles and crêpes without a booking. The cat room is home to the café’s own resident cats, and an hour with them costs $29.95 with a coffee, tea or soft drink. Only five guests go in at a time, so reserve online. Children under 5 aren’t allowed, under-13s need an adult, and no food or drink goes into the lounge. It’s open from 10am to 8pm every day except Tuesday.

In northern Scarborough, on McNicoll Avenue near Midland, Purrfect Café opened in February 2026 with a menu from its owners’ Singaporean roots: kaya toast, pandan and gula melaka drinks, and tofu pudding shaped like a cat. Its 15 to 20 cats come from Finally Home Cat Rescue, and about 40 had been adopted by October 2026. A one-hour session is $25, for up to 16 guests; children under 5 can’t go in, and 5- to 10-year-olds need an adult. It’s closed on Mondays and open late, until 10pm from Tuesday to Saturday and 9pm on Sunday.

Just over the city line, Purrfect Pet Cafe on Steeles Avenue West in Thornhill, between Yonge and Bathurst, has parking and a cat room of free-roaming cats, some of them adoptable. An hour costs $24.99, or $29.99 with a drink and $35.99 with a drink and dessert, and children 12 and under need a parent. Further up Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, Meow Woo Studio is a pet supply shop and café with a large cat room behind it, open every day from 11am to 11pm. It publishes no price list; visitors in October 2026 reported paying about $20 plus tax with a drink and no time limit.

Ontario Beyond Toronto

Some of Ontario’s best cat cafés are a train or bus ride from Toronto. My Kitty Cafe in downtown Guelph, a short walk from Guelph Central station, has two lounges, the Cottage and the Cabin, where cats from Rags to Riches Cat Rescue wait for homes. Sessions start on the hour and last 50 minutes for $13, and under-2s are free. All ages are welcome on weekdays, but only children 4 and over at weekends. It opens every day except statutory holidays, from 9am to 6pm and until 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Toe Beans Cat Cafe in Port Hope, an hour east of Toronto by car or VIA Rail, is a bakery and gift shop with a cat lounge that had placed 2,870 cats by October 2026. Its partner rescues reach as far as Kuwait and the Cayman Islands. A 55-minute visit costs $10 plus HST, children under 3 are free, and it closes on Tuesdays. Booking requests are answered by email, so book a few days ahead, or phone for a same-day visit.

If you’re going to Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls Cat Cafe on Queen Street downtown, ten minutes’ drive from the falls, has a full brunch and grilled cheese menu and a cat enclosure you can visit whether or not you eat. It costs $6 for 30 minutes or $10 for an hour, plus tax. Bookings are taken only by phone, and every visitor signs a paper waiver. Its cats come from Pets Alive Niagara and other local rescues, more than 150 have been adopted, and it closes on Mondays. In Stratford, Alley Cat Cafe on Market Place makes an easy stop before a Stratford Festival matinee. It opened in August 2019, charges $12 an hour for adults and $7 for children aged 3 to 12, with free coffee refills, and asks under-16s to come with an adult. It closes on Mondays.

A few more are further out. In Chatham, The Cat Lounge inside the Glasshouse Nursery garden centre is a drop-in room of shy, older and overlooked shelter cats from Pet and Wildlife Rescue (PAWR), visited for a small donation; it reached its 120th adoption in October 2026. In Uptown Waterloo, Uptown Purrk takes visitors by reservation only, but in October 2026 its booking page had no sessions open, so check its Instagram first. In Northern Ontario, Little Paws Cat Cafe in Haileybury charges $13 plus HST ($10 on Thursdays), admits ages 6 and up, opens Thursday to Sunday, and also runs a cat-themed escape room and VHS movie nights. The Sault’s Cat-urday Cafe, in a family bakery in Sault Ste. Marie, charges $5 for 50 minutes, and it is one of the few that asks you to keep your shoes and socks on.

Ottawa has had no cat café since Feline Café in Hintonburg closed in 2023, and Hamilton has none either; in October 2026 a café called Kitten and Crumb was planning to open there in 2027. See all of them on our Ontario map.

Vancouver

Catfe opened in December 2015 as Vancouver’s first cat café, on the second floor of International Village mall where Chinatown meets Gastown, a few minutes’ walk from Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain station. It closed for nearly three months for a renovation and reopened on 20 December 2025 with booth seating, a “Purr Pong” table and new shelving. About 15 to 25 adoptable cats from Heart & Soul Dog & Cat Rescue in Abbotsford live in the sunny lounge, and Catfe had rehomed more than 2,000 by October 2026. A 55-minute visit costs $16.95 plus GST, or $9.95 for half an hour on weekday mornings between 11am and 1pm. Guests must be 5 or older, and children up to 10 need an adult. The lounge is open from 11am to 8pm daily but closes from 2pm to 3pm for the cats’ nap, and the mall’s underground car park is free for two hours. Here are places to stay near Gastown and Chinatown on Booking.com.

Catfe in 2016, before its renovation. Photo: GoToVan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Catoro Cafe on East Broadway in Mount Pleasant is a bubble tea shop and cat supply store with a forest-themed lounge, the Cat Forest, at the back. Its 15 or more cats are all adoptable rescues, including shy cats it is socializing, and more than 1,800 have been adopted since it opened in 2019. A 50-minute visit is $18 for adults and children alike. Children under 5 aren’t allowed, under-15s need an adult, and it’s best to book ahead, especially at weekends. It’s closed on Mondays and opens from noon to 6pm Tuesday to Thursday and 11am to 6pm Friday to Sunday. From downtown, take the 99 B-Line to Fraser Street.

Richmond, by the airport, has two more. PETPLS, steps from Richmond–Brighouse station on the Canada Line, is a pet supply store with a cat room behind it, shared by the shop’s own cats and adoptable cats from Mountainside Hope Rescue. It costs $9 for 30 minutes or $16 for an hour, plus tax, with up to eight guests at a time, and doesn’t admit children under 5. The RAPS Cat Sanctuary in East Richmond isn’t a café at all but a lifelong home for several hundred cats unlikely to be adopted, including seniors, former ferals and cats with FIV or leukemia. It opens to the public on some weekend afternoons, from 1pm to 4pm, for $15 a ticket bought in advance on Eventbrite; check its website for the current visiting days. Children under 6 aren’t admitted, and parking is very limited. See our Vancouver map and Richmond map.

Elsewhere in British Columbia

An hour east of Vancouver in Abbotsford, White Cats Cafe opened in February 2026 with a Turkish café downstairs, serving Turkish coffee brewed in hot sand, lahmacun and baklava, and a cat lounge upstairs where many of the cats are white Turkish Van and Angora types. Some are adoptable and others are permanent residents. A 45-minute visit costs $15 including tax, and children must be at least 4.

In the Okanagan, Catelowna opened in Kelowna’s downtown Cultural District in June 2023 as the region’s first cat café, on a second floor with a lift at the back. It fosters 20 to 30 adoptable cats from rescues as far away as Prince George and the Prairies, and had placed 632 by October 2026. An hour costs $16, or $12 for seniors who book by phone, and nobody under 5 is allowed in the lounge. Cat yoga runs on the first Tuesday of each month and a pet painting night on the second Thursday. In Kamloops, Catloops opened in March 2026 with about a dozen cats from Sammy’s Forgotten Felines, a rescue that rehabilitates feral and colony cats. A 50-minute session costs $15, visitors must be 8 or older, and it’s closed on Mondays.

Victoria has no cat café, but Vancouver Island has two cat lounges. Kitties & Cream in Nanaimo’s Old City Quarter is a cat shop with a small drop-in room of up to six adoptable cats, visited for a donation of at least $5, while it raises money for a full lounge; more than 900 cats had been adopted through it by October 2026. An hour north of Victoria in Duncan, Alley Kats is an antique and thrift shop with a cat lounge and a separate kitten room, at $12 a visit. See our British Columbia map.

Montreal

Montreal’s cat cafés work the Quebec way: no entry fee, no booking, and cats wandering among the tables while you eat. Café Chat L’Heureux on Avenue Duluth Est in the Plateau, about ten minutes’ walk from Sherbrooke métro station, opened in September 2014, weeks after Le Café des Chats, which makes it the oldest cat café still open in North America. It has eight resident cats, all adopted from shelters in Greater Montreal, and since 2015 it has also fostered young cats from the Proanima shelter until they find homes, more than a hundred of them so far. The menu is mostly grilled cheese ($14.95 to $16.90), soups, salads and desserts, with coffee from $3.95. It’s open from 11am to 8pm, Tuesday to Sunday, and weekend afternoons usually mean a wait for a table. In winter, shoes come off at the door, because road salt is toxic to cats.

Its second branch, Café Chat L’Heureux on Rue Ontario, opened on 5 October 2024 in Centre-Sud on the edge of the Village, about five minutes’ walk from Beaudry métro station, with the same menu, hours and rules in a room designed around the cats. Here are places to stay in the Plateau on Booking.com.

In Verdun, Café Chato is a vegetarian café on Rue de Verdun, two minutes from Verdun métro station, that opened in August 2018. It works only with Refuge Animex, and all ten or so of its cats are up for adoption; Animex approves adopters, which can take up to four weeks. There’s no booking, and with Wi-Fi and plenty of outlets it’s popular with students and remote workers. It’s open every day, from 8am to 7pm on weekdays and 9am to 5pm at weekends. Southwest of the city, about 45 minutes by car, Les Félins Gourmets in Beauharnois is run by a trained chef with his own four cats and four to six adoptable cats from the rescue Amiaou, open Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm. See our Montreal map.

Québec City

Café Félin Ma Langue aux Chats on Rue Saint-Paul in the Vieux-Port has 14 purebred cats and one small dog. It opened in 2015, and since 2019 its owner, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, has run it with an animal-therapy mission, employing people on the autism spectrum or living with mental illness. The cats aren’t for adoption. There’s no fee: you order from a menu of coffee, paninis, soups, salads and desserts, with vegan options, and children are welcome as long as they’re supervised. It’s open every day from 10am to 8pm, and shoes come off at the door.

Ma Langue aux Chats in 2016. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Café Félin Chats-Nous, in a former corner store in Saint-Jean-Baptiste a few minutes’ walk from Rue Saint-Jean and the old city walls, opened in March 2020 with seven resident cats who like to sleep in the front windows. Paninis cost $9.50 to $10.25 and a latte $4.75, and at weekends a $15.50 brunch of waffles, crêpes or French toast with Quebec maple syrup comes with a drink; book it by phone. It closes on Mondays.

Across the river in Lévis, a short drive over the Pont de Québec, Le Café Refuge is a specialty coffee shop with a glass-walled cat room in the middle, where cats from the SPA de Lévis wait for homes. It opened in June 2025 and placed more than 135 cats in its first year; you just buy something from the café. An hour south in the Beauce, ChatFé in Beauceville is run by volunteers from the Refuge Ami-Maux shelter, which says about 600 cats were adopted there in its first three years. Visitors pay for a drink or make a donation, in cash only, children must be over 6, and hours change weekly, so check its Instagram. Further west, in Sherbrooke, the Refuge Le Château shelter has a café corner with uncaged cats; phone (819) 432-5599 before visiting. See our Québec City map.

Calgary and Edmonton

Regal Cat Café in Kensington, a short walk from Sunnyside CTrain station, opened in June 2017 as Calgary’s first cat café, and since June 2022 it has been owned by the MEOW Foundation rescue, so everything you spend goes to the cats. Six to twelve adoptable cats live in the Kitty Kingdom, a separate room with its own ventilation, and a new group arrives every two or three weeks; more than 1,500 have found homes there. Visits are 30 minutes, at $12 on weekdays and $14 at weekends and on holidays, and you can book back-to-back slots. It’s open every day from 9am to 8pm, and under-10s need an adult.

Edmonton has two. Cat Cafe on Whyte, at the east end of Whyte Avenue, opened on 30 March 2017 as Alberta’s first permanent cat café, with a two-level lounge for cats from the rescue SAFE Team. An hour costs $16.99 to $18.99 for adults depending on the day, plus GST, with unlimited drinks from the menu, and less for children; walk-ins are fine, but book for weekends. Cat yoga runs on the last Saturday of each month. In south Edmonton on Calgary Trail, Cheery Cat is a cat boutique with a palace-themed lounge of foster kittens and young cats from its own rescue, which had placed more than 200 kittens by September 2026. An hour costs $18 for adults and $12 for children aged 5 to 12, with half-hour visits for less; children under 5 can’t go in, and each child needs an adult.

In Grande Prairie, five hours northwest, Whiskers Cat Café charges adults $15 with a drink and works with the Peace Regional SPCA; more than 1,500 cats had been adopted from it by early 2026. See our Alberta map.

Winnipeg

Cleocatra Café on Portage Avenue in the West End opened in May 2023 as a Vietnamese café with a cat room, serving Vietnamese coffee, matcha and desserts, and a second branch is in Osborne Village. At both, a 50-minute session costs $17.36 including tax, with a discount for children aged 3 to 15 at the counter, and each has 10 to 15 adoptable rescue cats. Both close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and stay open until 10pm at weekends.

On Main Street in the North End, Annie’s Attic is a thrift shop and cat café whose takings all go to D’Arcy’s Animal Rescue Centre. Entry to the cat lounge is a donation of at least $5, with no bookings, from Tuesday to Saturday. The newest is Gallery 39 on St. Anne’s Road, which opened in October 2026 and calls itself a cat café with art instead of lattes: a quiet gallery of work by local artists where adoptable cats from K9 Advocacy and Hello Whiskers live full-time. A 50-minute visit costs $10 plus tax, or $8 for children aged 3 to 12, and there’s no food or drink. See our Winnipeg map.

Regina and Saskatoon

Excalipurr Cat Cafe in Regina’s Cathedral area opened in 2017 and is one of the cheapest in the country: $8 for 45 minutes, $5 on Tuesdays, or $25 for a family of four. It serves specialty coffee and vegetarian food, including custom cat cakes, and its 15 to 20 cats come from SCRAPS, a Moose Jaw rescue for stray and feral cats; more than 600 have been adopted from it. Hours change with the seasons, so phone ahead. In downtown Saskatoon, The Purrfect Cup has about 20 cats from the Battlefords Humane Society in a cat room behind double doors. Entry is $14, or $11 for children 12 and under, with no time limit posted; it’s walk-in only, and it closes on Tuesdays.

Atlantic Canada

The Purrfect Cup in Fredericton, on the north side at Two Nations Crossing, opened in October 2018 as New Brunswick’s first cat café. It serves Whitney Coffee Co. espresso and bagels at the front, with a lounge of rescued cats from shelters around the province at the back, for $10 an hour for adults and $7 for children, plus tax. Book more than 24 hours ahead online; same-day visitors come as walk-ins and may wait.

Near the head of St. Margarets Bay, about 30 minutes from downtown Halifax, Otis & Clementine’s Books & Coffee is a used bookshop whose sign reads “books, coffee, sometimes kitties”. Alongside Seamus, the resident cat, adoptable cats from the rescue Spay Day HRM roam the shelves, and there’s no fee or booking: just browse, buy a coffee and say hello. Halifax itself, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland have no cat café. St. John’s had one, Mad Catter, from 2018 until it closed on 27 September 2026, after almost 700 adoptions.

Whichever city you’re in, a Canadian cat café is an inexpensive hour with cats who need homes, and in Quebec, a good lunch too. Browse all of them on our Canada cat café map, and if you’re new to cat cafés, our guide to what a cat café is covers the etiquette in more detail.