Cat Cafés in France: Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Every Region

France’s first cat café, Le Café des Chats, opened on 21 September 2013 at 16 rue Michel-le-Comte in the Marais, and on its first day it was fully booked by noon. It’s still going, now on rue Sedaine near Bastille. Our directory now lists 81 cat cafés in France, Réunion included, but only 6 are in Paris. Most are in mid-sized towns, from Dunkirk to Foix, and many have opened since 2024, often as foster homes for rescue associations, so the cats you meet may be looking for a home. Meanwhile several big cities have lost theirs. In November 2026 there was no open cat café in Lille, Marseille, Montpellier or Nantes.

We checked every café at the start of November 2026, against its own website and social accounts, its Google profile and newest reviews, the French business register and the local press. Opening hours change most often, so look at the café’s page before you travel.

How French Cat Cafés Work

Entry is usually free if you order. At most French cat cafés you order a drink or a cake, and your time with the cats comes with it. Many ask for one order per person, children included. Some charge visitors who order nothing: €3 at Déli’Cat in Villefranche-sur-Saône, €4 at Café des Félins in Besançon, and €5 on weekdays and €8 at weekends at Le GentleCat in Lyon. Others charge for the cats or for your time:

• Le Café des Chats in Paris charges a €5 “Pass Ronron” per person at weekends, on public holidays and in the school holidays.
• Chat Mallows Café in Paris charges €10 to get in, and €10 an hour at weekends and in the holidays.
• Café Miaou in Paris sells one-hour menus from €12 to €19.50.
• Nekomata in Bordeaux charges by time, with a drink included: €10 for an hour, €13 for 90 minutes and €16 for two hours.
• Papa Chat Café in Toulon adds €2 an hour per adult and €1 per child to your order, and Oh My Cat! Coffee in Mulhouse a €2 contribution.
• Ryokaï Café on Réunion sells one-hour visits from €10 with a drink.

Many cafés are also adoption centres. They foster cats for rescue associations or shelters, which run the adoption: usually a questionnaire, one or more visits and a contract, with a fee.

• Cats and Cookies in Angers fosters cats for the SPA d’Angers, and adoption costs the SPA’s €110 fee.
• Déli’Cat in Villefranche-sur-Saône rehomed 41 cats in 2026 up to the end of October, at €250 each (€100 for senior cats).
• Le Cat-Quart in Haguenau had reached 46 adoptions by November 2026, just over a year after opening, and Mia House in Le Mans counts more than 250 since 2019.
• Elsewhere the cats are residents and stay for good. Café Miaou in Paris, Le Royaume des Chats in Montluçon and Le GentleCat have mostly pedigree cats, and Chat Mallows and Le Comptoir des Chats in Bordeaux bought some of theirs from breeders.

Check the age limit before you bring children. It varies a lot:

• Le GentleCat, Féline Idée in Annemasse and Café des Félins don’t admit under-12s.
• Déli’Cat, Le Comptoir des Chats, Meow Cats Café in Aix-en-Provence and La Ronronnerie in Nice don’t admit under-10s.
• Oh My Cat! Coffee admits children from 8, Café Miaou and Le Chat-Rivari from 7, and Chat Mallows, Papa Chat Café and Ryokaï from 6.
• Families are welcome at Le Café des Chats in Paris, Nekomata, T’ChaThé in Craponne, Le Chat L’Heureux in Valence and Le Chatelier, which has a children’s menu.

Book when you can. Chat Mallows requires a booking, and Nekomata, Wiccat in Strasbourg and Café Moustache in Bayonne strongly recommend one. At weekends small cafés often turn people away. On the other hand Le Comptoir des Chats, La Ronronnerie, Déli’Cat and Le Chalet in La Roche-sur-Yon don’t take bookings.

The house rules are much the same everywhere. You come in through an airlock, often after ringing, so no cat slips out, and you disinfect your hands. You don’t wake the cats, pick them up or feed them, and you don’t use flash. Some cafés have you put on shoe covers, like Café Miaou and Le Bar à Papattes in Châlons-en-Champagne, or take your shoes off, like Nekomata and Le cat salad in Brive.

A cat café is an inspected business. It answers to the DDPP, the departmental service for food hygiene and animal welfare: Le Café des Chats mentions its inspections, and Féline Idée turns away under-12s at its request. Several teams, including those at Le Chat-Rivari and Cats and Cookies, hold the ACACED, the French certificate in the care of companion animals.

Read the recent reviews. In 2026 visitors complained of smells, crowded rooms or a curt welcome at several cafés, and in Paris Café Miaou received a run of negative reviews about its cats’ welfare in late October 2026, mixed with glowing ones. We list all these cafés and note the complaints, so you can judge for yourself.

Mon Chat Pitre isn’t a café. This network of “ronron-librairies” (purr bookshops), started in June 2021 in Aix-en-Provence by the journalists Solène Chavanne and Jean-Philippe Doux, opens general bookshops where shelter cats live, and the cats aren’t up for adoption. After Aix, shops opened in Colmar in April 2025, Toulouse in April 2026, Bordeaux in May 2026, Albi in June 2026 and Versailles. Unlike the Aix shop, the Toulouse one also has a café counter.

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Paris

Paris has six cat cafés, and they’re very different from one another: a restaurant, two tea rooms with pedigree cats, a vegan café where you can adopt, a bar attached to a cat hotel and a coworking space.

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Le Café des Chats at 9 rue Sedaine, between Bréguet-Sabin and Bastille métro stations, is a proper restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, where four cooks make everything on site. Its 14 cats came from animal-welfare associations and live at the café; they aren’t up for adoption. There’s no entry fee on weekdays, but a €5 “Pass Ronron” per person at weekends, on public holidays and in the school holidays, except for under-2s, students and jobseekers. A coffee costs €3.70, a hot chocolate €7 and main courses €16 to €20. All ages are admitted, but under-12s stay at the table with their parents. You can book, which is safer at weekends, since the café turns people away when it’s full. It’s open from Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 9pm, and until 10pm on Saturdays.

Chat Mallows Café at 30 rue des Volontaires in the 15th, near Volontaires métro station, is a tea room with Asian-inspired decor where everything is for sale, from the tables to the mugs. About fourteen cats live there, including Bengals, British Shorthairs and Longhairs, Devon Rexes and Ragdolls, some bought from breeders and some adopted. Entry costs €10, and at weekends, on public holidays and in the holidays €10 an hour, with nothing extra after two hours. Drinks are on top: €3.90 for an espresso, €5.90 for a hot chocolate, €6.90 to €7.90 for the homemade cakes. You must book online, under-6s aren’t admitted, and 6- to 12-year-olds must be closely supervised. It’s open from Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 8pm. In October 2026 visitors found the cats listless and complained about children left unsupervised.

Café Miaou at 355 rue Saint-Martin in the 3rd, near Arts et Métiers and Réaumur-Sébastopol métro stations, works on one-hour menus: €12 with a drink, €16.50 with a dessert, €19.50 with both, and everyone at a table takes the same one. It serves Asian-style desserts such as shaved ice and soufflé pancakes. You put on shoe covers, get a numbered wristband and pay on the way out. Its 19 or so cats are pedigree cats bred by the café, including short-legged Munchkins and Minuets, and they aren’t up for adoption. Under-7s aren’t admitted, and 7- to 14-year-olds come with an adult. It takes walk-ins every day from noon to 8pm. Between late October and early November 2026, a run of one-star reviews said the room was too small for so many cats and objected to breeding short-legged cats. The café disputes this, and many five-star reviews arrived at the same time.

Le Chat-Rivari Café at 40 boulevard Auguste-Blanqui in the 13th, a minute from Corvisart métro station, opened at the end of August 2025 after an Ulule crowdfunding campaign. It’s the first cat café in Paris where you can adopt the cats, and its menu is entirely plant-based. It fosters about eight cats for the BooGlaw shelter, and adoption is through the shelter’s form. There’s no entry fee, snacks cost €6.50 to €11, and there’s no alcohol. Children are admitted from 7, with an adult. At busy times visits run in time slots. It’s open from Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 7pm.

Le Chatelier at 218 rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th, near Luxembourg RER station, is a cat bar with a cat hotel upstairs, kept completely separate. Six resident cats live in the bar, and the café sometimes helps partner shelters rehome cats. Every visitor starts with a set order: €10 for a drink or a treat, €13 for both, €7 for students and €6 for under-7s. Time is unlimited from Monday to Thursday, and limited to an hour per order on Fridays, Saturdays and at busy times. Book by phone, especially for Friday and Saturday. There are board games, books and manga. It’s open from noon to 6pm Monday to Thursday, until 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and closed on Sundays.

Koneko Work at 34 rue d’Aligre in the 12th, next to the Marché d’Aligre and Ledru-Rollin métro station, is a coworking space with cats from the association EMÂ, all up for adoption. You pay €6 for the first hour and then €1 per ten minutes, €14 for a morning, €20 for a half day or €32 for a full day, with drinks and snacks included. Voices stay low, and there are two soundproof phone booths. It’s fully wheelchair accessible. Booking online is advised. It’s open from 9am to 7pm on weekdays and from 1:30pm to 6pm on Saturdays.

Le Café des Chats and Koneko Work are a quarter of an hour’s walk apart. Here are places to stay in the Marais on Booking.com, between rue Sedaine and Café Miaou.

Around Paris

Ronrons et Latte in La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, at the end of RER D, is a café and a shop for local makers. Three cats live there, including Luciole, a miniature snow Bengal, and two more are up for adoption with the association Nos Chats Sans Toit. Book by text message, as the tables fill up. It’s open on Tuesdays from 2pm to 7pm and from Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 6pm. In October 2026 a visitor complained of a litter-tray smell.

Mon Chat Pitre Versailles, which opened in 2026, is the network’s cat bookshop in Versailles. Its cats have spaces of their own to retreat to. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday.

Lyon and Around

Lyon is down to one cat café. The city’s first, Le Chamourai in the Croix-Rousse, opened in September 2014 and closed in 2017, and Au Bonheur des Chats, a vegan adoption café, closed in June 2024 after rehoming 381 cats. Three newer cafés less than an hour from the city fill the gap.

Le GentleCat at 51 rue Auguste-Comte in the 2nd, between Ampère and Perrache, opened in 2015. It survived the 2020 lockdown with a crowdfunding appeal, moved in 2022 to 210 m² with a coworking room under the roof, and in 2025 opened a luxury cat hotel on place Gailleton. Nine cats, mostly pedigrees (Persian, Chartreux, Bengal, Selkirk Rex and more), and a rabbit called Edgar live there; they aren’t up for adoption. The menu has about 80 teas, and cheesecake has been the house speciality for ten years. Lunch is served from Wednesday to Saturday, and the Sunday brunch costs €25.90 booked or €27.90 without a booking. Anyone who orders nothing pays €5 on weekdays and €8 at weekends, and under-12s aren’t admitted. It’s open on Tuesdays from 2pm to 7pm, Wednesday to Saturday from 10:30am to 7pm and on Sundays from 10am to 6pm. In October 2026 a visitor complained of a strong smell of ammonia.

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T’ChaThé in Craponne, west of Lyon, opened on 10 June 2025. It’s a foster home for the association Sans croquettes fixes: five cats there are waiting for a family, and two residents, Poupouf and Mouphasa, stay. The cats have a glass-walled retreat, the “Cat Club”. There’s a quiet corner with books and manga, a work room that can be closed off, and organic George Cannon teas. Children of any age are welcome if they stay calm, which is rare around Lyon. It’s open on Tuesday to Saturday afternoons, and on Wednesday and Friday mornings too.

Le Chat’Puccino at 4 rue de la Table-Ronde in Vienne, next to the cloister of Saint-André-le-Bas and 20 to 30 minutes from Lyon by TER train, opened on 2 April 2026. Six resident cats live there, and foster cats wait there for adoption. All the drinks are alcohol-free or low-alcohol, by choice, and the coffee comes from local roasters: €2.10 for an espresso. There are savoury waffle plates (€14.90 to €15.90) and sharing boards. Book by phone. It’s open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, and until 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Déli’Cat in Villefranche-sur-Saône, half an hour from Lyon by TER, opened in December 2024. It fosters cats for the association Nos Chouchous of Vénissieux, and 41 of them were adopted in 2026 up to the end of October, at €250 each. Everyone must order something, and anyone who doesn’t pays €3. An espresso costs €1.80 and the lunch menus €16 or €18. Its teas come from Le GentleCat. Under-10s aren’t admitted, groups are limited to six, and it takes no bookings. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11:30am to 6:30pm.

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Grenoble, Chambéry and Annemasse

Neko Café in Grenoble, open since 2016, changed managers in summer 2026 and reopened on 12 September 2026 with six new cats. It still had its old name in early November 2026, but a new name had been announced. Since the takeover, some visitors have regretted a shorter menu and the rule that everyone in a group must order. It’s open on Tuesday to Saturday afternoons, from 11am on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Kattkrogen on place Claveyson opened in September 2025. This “cat tavern”, with stone walls and walls papered with pages from old books, has three resident cats. It serves homemade crêpes and waffles, with halal and vegetarian options, and holds film nights. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm, and on Sundays from 1pm to 6pm.

La Main à la Patte in Chambéry opened in July 2024. Its cats come from the association L’Arche de Siena and are all up for adoption, so their number varies. There’s a quieter room upstairs, a mural that parodies Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam with cats, and a terrace since spring 2026. An espresso costs €2 and the coffee cocktails €9. Book if you can. It’s open on Tuesday to Sunday afternoons, and from 10am on Saturdays.

Féline Idée in Annemasse, near Geneva, is a restaurant and cat café that opened in 2021. It has about a dozen cats from the Refuge de l’Espoir in Arthaz, all up for adoption except four residents. Everyone is asked to order, the menu is homemade and seasonal, and it’s best to book for lunch and dinner. Under-12s aren’t admitted. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 10pm.

There’s no cat café in Annecy.

Saint-Étienne, Valence and Auvergne

La Patte de Velours at 7 rue de la République in Saint-Étienne has been open since the turn of 2020 and is still the only cat café in the Loire. About ten cats live there, some of them up for adoption. Everyone, children included, must order. An espresso costs €2.30, and the “Le Chaton” set (a savoury dish and a drink) €10.90. Book by phone. It’s open on Mondays and from Wednesday to Saturday, 11:30am to 6:30pm. From summer into autumn 2026, several visitors complained of an abrupt welcome and a smell in a room too small for its cats.

Le Chat L’Heureux at 2 rue d’Arménie in Valence opened on 19 August 2026 as the first cat café in the Drôme. Its cats come from the École du chat de Valence and are all up for adoption. Lunch is homemade, and the Saturday brunch must be booked. Children are welcome. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30am to 6pm.

Le Royaume des Chats on place Édouard-et-Georges-Piquand in Montluçon opened in February 2025 with 1970s decor. Its four pedigree cats belong to the café: Léon, a polydactyl Maine Coon, Marcel, another Maine Coon, Achille, a Sphynx, and Basile, a Bengal. An espresso costs €1.50 and a hot chocolate €4. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm.

Near Le Puy-en-Velay, L’Atelier des Chats in Espaly-Saint-Marcel is first of all an animal-therapy centre: its tea room opens only a few days a month, and you have to phone to find out which. There’s no cat café in Clermont-Ferrand.

Bordeaux and the Gironde

Bordeaux has four addresses in the centre, one of them a bookshop, and three cafés in the inner suburbs. Le Comptoir des Chats and Nekomata are the most popular.

Le Comptoir des Chats, near the Grosse Cloche, opened in 2016 as the first cat café in Bordeaux. There’s no entry fee, but everyone orders at least one thing. An espresso costs €3, and the house hot chocolate, made from three chocolates and cooked for hours, €7.50. Its eight cats, including Maine Coons, a Chartreux and a Scottish Fold, came partly from a shelter and partly from breeders, and they aren’t up for adoption. It takes no bookings, and children are admitted from 10. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6:30pm.

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Nekomata on rue Lafaurie-de-Monbadon, between place Tourny and place Gambetta, near the Fondaudège-Muséum stop on tram line D, charges by time with a drink included: €10 for an hour, €13 for 90 minutes, €16 for two hours. Its nine cats all came from shelters (the Maison SPA de Fondaudège, Potron-Minet and Aid’animaux 33). You swap your shoes for slippers, and the menu is Japanese: bubble tea, Japanese teas, hōjicha latte, ramune. The cats can always get to an inner courtyard furnished with sofas. Booking is strongly recommended. Children of any age come with an adult. It’s open on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 7pm, and at weekends from 11am to 7pm.

Les Chats Touilleurs on rue du Palais-Gallien, near the ruins of the Roman amphitheatre, is a restaurant at lunchtime and then a tea room, with brunch on Saturdays. More than five cats, the owner’s own, sleep in hammocks by the tables. Between September and November 2026, several visitors complained about hygiene.

Mon Chat Pitre Bordeaux on rue Fondaudège opened in May 2026. This general bookshop serves no drinks, and its cats, from rescue associations, live there for good. It’s open from Monday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm.

In the inner suburbs, Chat Roule? in Le Bouscat, near the Barrière du Médoc and tram line D, is a crêperie with about six adopted cats; every day visitors can watch the cats’ “goûter”, their afternoon snack. La P’tite Griffe Café in Bruges is an adoption café with an entrance airlock, music on Friday evenings, game nights and workshops. L’Escale des Chats in Mérignac opened at the end of summer 2026 with a mother cat, Lilou, and her four kittens, and holds game nights on Wednesdays and Fridays; parking is free.

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From the Limousin to the Basque Country

Once Upon a Cat on rue Jauvion in Limoges, open since 2021, has about four cats named after Harry Potter characters. There’s no booking and no time limit, and you sit where you like. Prices are a little higher than elsewhere, to cover vet bills.

Ô P’tits Chats Gaillards at 26 bis rue Gambetta in Brive-la-Gaillarde, open since 2023, has five resident cats, from a Maine Coon to a Ragdoll, which aren’t up for adoption. It serves a lunch menu and themed brunches, and has a children’s corner and a coworking corner. It’s open every day except Thursday.

Le cat salad, two hundred metres away on rue du Docteur-Massenat, opened at the end of 2025. Five young cats live there, including a Maine Coon. You build your own salad (€14), and there are toasted sandwiches and crêpes too. You take your shoes off at the door, and children are welcome.

Au Chafé on rue Prosper-Faugère in Bergerac opened in autumn 2026. Cakes cost €3, and it holds yoga sessions with the cats (€30 for 45 minutes). Book a table, as it fills up fast. It’s open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6:30pm.

PawPao on rue Molinier in Agen, open since 2025, has four resident cats, a kittens’ room and adoptable cats from associations, whose number varies; a dog lives there too. Everyone is asked to order a drink, and prices are low. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6:30pm.

Ronron et Gourmandises in Orthez, open since 2018, has cats from the associations Patounes de chats and Animal’Âme, all up for adoption. The lunch plate, which changes every day, costs €12.50, and a coffee €1.30. It also shows work by local makers. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.

Café Moustache on rue du 49e-RI in Bayonne opened in 2026. Its cats are fosters up for adoption. A cheesecake or a latte costs €5. Booking is strongly advised.

Toulouse and Occitanie

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Chapristea, near Esquirol and Capitole métro stations, opened in May 2016 as the first cat café in Toulouse, funded on KissKissBankBank. It’s in a vaulted brick cellar. About nine cats live there, most adopted from Le Chat Libre de Toulouse, and a few cats from that association wait there for a family. Everyone must order. The light lunch, from noon to 2pm, can be booked online; the rest of the time you just walk in. It’s open every day from noon to 7pm, except on Sundays in July and August. In October 2026 visitors regretted seeing only three to five cats, mostly asleep, and slow service.

Mon Chat Pitre Toulouse at 24 rue de la Bourse, near Esquirol métro station, opened in April 2026. Unlike the Aix shop, it serves cakes and savoury dishes, and its cats have their own space in the vaulted cellar. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30am to 7pm.

Le Cha’ppuccino, the cat café inside the Animaland Ô Toulouse pet shop in Muret, appeared to be closed in early November 2026, so check before you go.

In Albi, Bastet Café is a discreet brick house on rue de Genève, near the Parc Rochegude, where you ring to get in. Eight cats live there, and the lunch menus, cooked every morning from local and organic produce, cost €13 to €19. Book lunch by phone; in the afternoon you just walk in, with no time limit. Mon Chat Pitre Albi, which opened in June 2026, has nearly 5,000 titles and five cats, including Sidonie and Roméo, and runs workshops for children.

MIAW in Castelnaudary opened on 10 June 2026 with the association Les Chats Paix Belle, and eleven of its cats had found a family by November 2026. Lattes cost €5, and it serves local beers and wines too. Book at weekends.

Neko Castel in Foix opened in October 2025 in a former games shop. Its cats come from shelters including the SCPA de Carcassonne, and almost all are up for adoption: about ten had been adopted by March 2026. It serves bubble tea and Japanese curry. In 2026 it won the enterprising-business prize of the Ariège retail awards.

Miaou Coffee in Béziers has five cats, and every visitor must order. It’s open on Tuesday to Saturday afternoons. Le Tchatons in Alès is an association-run bar of nearly 200 m², with a library and games. About ten cats live there, and since lockdown they’re no longer up for adoption: the team grew too attached. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 7pm. In 2026 several visitors complained of a smell of urine.

Montpellier no longer has a cat café. Le Chat Gourmand, the city’s first, which opened in 2019, closed temporarily in June 2026 and announced in September 2026 that it wouldn’t reopen. La Maison des Chats, which opened in February 2019 on rue de la Carbonnerie, became a brunch café, LUNÉA, in summer 2026, with one cat left. A fantasy-themed café with cats for adoption, L’Auberge du Chat, was announced at 2 rue Delpech but hadn’t opened by November 2026. The nearest are in Béziers and Alès.

Provence, the Riviera and Corsica

Meow Cats Café in Aix-en-Provence opened on 1 February 2019 as the first cat café in Aix. Its six cats came from associations. Under-10s aren’t admitted. On Saturdays it serves a bento-style brunch. Groups of up to six book by Instagram message; from 2pm it’s walk-in only, and you may have to wait at the door. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5:30pm.

Mon Chat Pitre at 13 rue de Montigny, in the old town of Aix, is the network’s first bookshop, opened in June 2021. Its cats move along walkways and suspended bridges above the shelves; the best known, Marcel, was found in a bin in Marseille. It serves no food or drink.

Le Charisto on the RN 113 in Lançon-Provence is a cat boarding house with a cat café, where the cats come and go between inside and outside. It has a Saturday brunch, board games and themed afternoons. In October 2026 a visitor objected that the café highlights its cats’ breeds and holds events with breeders.

Papa Chat Café in Toulon opened in 2026 as the city’s first cat café. Its eight cats were rescued from the street, and the café chose not to offer them for adoption. Access to the cat room costs €2 an hour per adult and €1 per child, on top of what you order, and under-6s aren’t admitted. Book a slot online, especially on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm.

L’instant chat in Hyères is in a house away from the centre. It fosters cats for several regional associations, and all its cats are up for adoption. Salads start at €9, and there are 15 organic teas. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm. In October 2026 two visitors complained of a strong smell of urine.

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La Ronronnerie, near the Durandy stop on tram line 2, is the only cat café in Nice. It opened around 2015 with crowdfunding and has since changed owners. Five cats live there: Junko, the eldest, Zéphyr, a Maine Coon, Chiyo, a street rescue with a heart condition who needs calm, Willow and Artémis. It takes no bookings, and under-10s aren’t admitted. An espresso costs €2, bagels €9, and there’s a €10 student menu. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday, 11:30am to 7pm. In October and November 2026 many visitors complained of over-strict staff and waits of more than an hour.

Mouan’s Chatoux in Mouans-Sartoux, near Cannes, serves lunch and afternoon snacks all day, among its five cats or on the terrace. Children are welcome. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm.

Miss Tea Griff in Ajaccio is Corsica’s only cat café, and you can have your nails done there too. Its cats come from the association Les Chats de l’Île and are up for adoption. It serves waffles and homemade cakes. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday from noon, and until 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Marseille has had no cat café since Le Coin des Chat’Mis, which opened in July 2018 on boulevard Vauban, closed in March 2021. The nearest are in Aix-en-Provence and Lançon-Provence.

Strasbourg and Alsace

Chatperlipopette Café on rue de Lausanne in the Krutenau is Strasbourg’s longest-running cat café, open since around 2016. About ten cats and two small dogs live there, and volunteers serve. In November 2024 it warned that it might close because of rising costs, and cat sponsorships from €5 a month saved it. In October 2026 several visitors found it shut during its posted hours or complained of a smell.

Wiccat on rue Adolphe-Seyboth opened in July 2025 with witch and fairytale decor, even in the toilets. Five cats live there: Chouchou and Tini belong to the café, and the others are up for adoption. Book through the online form and order at the counter: €2 for an espresso, €8 for the afternoon set, €15 to €18 for the weekday lunch sets. In September 2026 visitors found the room dusty and stuffy.

Le Cat-Quart in Haguenau, 30 km north, opened on 23 June 2025 and serves brunch every day (€26 for the set). It fosters cats for the École du chat libre des Vosges du Nord, the SPA de Haguenau and Les Bitcherkatz, and 46 of its cats had been adopted by November 2026. It’s a calm place and not suited to children who can’t stay seated. It’s open from Thursday to Monday, 10am to 5pm.

Mon Chat Pitre Colmar on place Sainte-Catherine opened in April 2025 as the network’s second bookshop. The illustrator Benjamin Lacombe is its patron.

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Oh My Cat! Coffee in Mulhouse opened in March 2025 as the first cat café in the Haut-Rhin. Its five cats, including Barney, a cream Persian, belong to the café. It asks for a €2 contribution, waived at lunchtime and for students on weekdays, and visits are limited to two hours. Children are admitted from 8. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday.

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Lorraine, Champagne and the Vosges

Chalon de Thé in Metz opened in 2018, and the brand later spread to Luxembourg, Dubai and Thionville. About ten cats, including several Sphynxes, live in a small room, and every visitor must spend a minimum. In October 2026 visitors complained of a smell and of too many cats.

Chalon de Thé Thionville on rue des Deux-Places, decorated as an Egyptian temple and a jungle, has about fifteen pedigree cats. It’s open every day, with brunch on Sundays, and its founder also takes cats on animal-therapy visits to schools and care homes.

Le Bar à Papattes in Châlons-en-Champagne opened at the end of October 2022. Its cats are up for adoption, and a notebook on the tables introduces them. You put on shoe covers at the door. Anyone who orders nothing pays an access fee, doubled on Saturdays.

Troyes Petits Chats on rue Général-Saussier opened in June 2021. It fosters cats for an association, and its cats, introduced in a notebook, are all up for adoption. Brunch costs €20, and the crockery is cat-shaped.

Pattes et Pages in Remiremont, in the Vosges, opened in February 2026 and is run by an association and its volunteers. It has second-hand books, cheap homemade cakes and cats up for adoption.

There’s no cat café in Nancy, Reims or Dijon.

Franche-Comté and the Loire Valley

Café des Félins in Besançon has seven cats named after Victor Hugo characters, such as Gavroche, Fantine, Marius and Frollo, and they aren’t up for adoption. You read the rules in an airlock and then ring to be let in. Anyone who orders nothing pays €4, and the cookies are named after cat breeds. Under-12s aren’t admitted. Book online at least six hours ahead for weekends and holidays. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 6pm and on Sundays from 3pm to 6pm.

Caféline was getting ready to open a cat café on rue des Poulets in Chalon-sur-Saône, with the association Nouveau Chat Pitre 71, but it still hadn’t opened in early November 2026.

Neko in Orléans works with the association Les Jardins de Neko, and its cats are up for adoption. It has vegan and gluten-free options, a €12 set at weekends and a Sunday brunch that must be booked. It’s open from Tuesday to Sunday.

Grignote & Ronron in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire opened at the start of October 2025. A local association places about five cats there, all up for adoption. The “formule ronron” brings together a homemade panini, a drink and a pastry, and there are board games.

Tours has had no cat café since La Cour des Chats closed on 20 March 2025.

Lille and Hauts-de-France

Lille has had no cat café since Au Chat Voir Vivre closed at the start of 2022. The nearest is in Tourcoing, and across the border B’aristokat is in Kortrijk.

Le Chalaksa at 20 rue de Lille in Tourcoing, near Tourcoing-Centre station on métro line 2, opened on Saturday 5 September 2026. It’s the only cat café in the Lille metropolitan area: 175 m² set up to rehome abandoned cats from associations. It serves Singaporean pastries such as pandan cake. In October 2026 it still had only three or four cats, and some visitors said so, as well as finding it pricey.

Chez Maminou in Valenciennes serves northern specialities: chicory soup, goyère (a Maroilles cheese tart from Valenciennes), a “Ch’tiramisu” for €6 and a main course and dessert for €15.90. Its cats come from the association Zarg’n co in Cambrai and are up for adoption. It’s open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am on Wednesday to Saturday.

Barachat in Dunkirk is run by volunteers from the association Les Chamis: its cats are up for adoption, and the pastries are vegan. Le Cafélin in Maubeuge reopened in summer 2026 under new owners, with cats up for adoption. Esta-minet in Saint-Venant serves lunches made with local produce.

Normandy

In Rouen, Coffee Cat has kittens up for adoption and takes no bookings, and Cosy Lunch is a crêperie near the cathedral with two big cats, a terrace on place de la Calende and a games room upstairs. Cosy Lunch is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays outside the school holidays, and you book by text message.

Le Salon des P’Tea Chats in Le Havre serves vegan cakes and homemade iced tea, with board games.

Au Bon’Eure des Chats in Incarville, near Louviers, serves a homemade set lunch every day, and its cats, from the association Boule de Poil 27, are up for adoption.

Cookie Cat Café in Vernon is a 200 m² restaurant and tea room with about ten cats. It serves salads, pies and raclette, and the Sunday brunch must be booked. It’s open from Wednesday to Saturday, 11:30am to 7pm, and on Sundays from 10:30am to 2:30pm.

Brittany and the Pays de la Loire

Le Chat Puccino on rue des Francs-Bourgeois in Rennes opened in July 2016 after a crowdfunding campaign and calls itself the first cat café in Brittany. Five cats live there for good, including Maine Coons, and others wait there for a family. Waffles cost about €6. On Saturdays it’s often full.

Chez Pop’s in Lorient, open since May 2024, has Harry Potter-inspired decor with staircases for the cats, and all its cats are up for adoption. It has games, books, workshops and a vegetarian or vegan lunch.

Trois petits chats in Séné, near Vannes, open since 2021, has a room kept for the cats, and each cat’s ID card is on display. Everything is homemade, so book for lunch, as the room is small.

Cats and Cookies in Angers has about ten cats from the SPA d’Angers, all up for adoption: you visit several times first, adoption costs €110, and you need at least 30 m² of living space. An organic espresso costs €2.20 and bagels €8.50. Bookings are only for lunch, from noon to 2pm.

Mia House in Le Mans opened in June 2019 as the first cat café in the Sarthe. It has up to seven cats from associations and has rehomed more than 250. An espresso costs €1.90, and bookings are only for lunch. It’s open from Tuesday to Saturday.

Le Chalet on place du Théâtre in La Roche-sur-Yon works with the association Le Cœur sur la Patte 85, and all its cats are up for adoption. It takes no bookings: entry depends on space, for the cats’ sake. There’s a small fireplace.

Nantes has had no cat café since La Maison d’Élise closed in February 2022. The nearest is in Angers, an hour away by train.

Réunion

Ryokaï Café on rue Sainte-Marie in Saint-Denis is a Japanese-style cat café set up by a couple from Réunion after a trip to Japan in 2019. Five rescued cats live there, and the association Alika places cats there until they’re adopted. Visits last an hour: €10 with a drink, €12 with a drink and a snack, €15 with a bento at lunchtime, €5 for students. The kitchen makes onigiri, bento and mochi, always with a plant-based option, and the coffee is roasted on the island. Children are admitted from 6, and under-12s only before 2pm. Book for the noon and 4pm slots, especially at weekends. It’s closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

French Cat Cafés That Have Closed

• Le Café des Chats left its first address, 16 rue Michel-le-Comte, for rue Sedaine; it didn’t close.
• In Lyon, Le Chamourai, the city’s first, closed in 2017, and Au Bonheur des Chats on 2 June 2024, after rehoming 381 cats.
• In Montpellier, Le Chat Gourmand closed in 2026, and La Maison des Chats became a brunch café in summer 2026.
• In Marseille, Le Coin des Chat’Mis closed in March 2021, and in Avignon, La Compagnie des Chats closed on 13 December 2025 after nine years.
• In Nantes, Le Chat l’Heureux closed in 2018 and La Maison d’Élise in February 2022. In Tours, La Cour des Chats closed on 20 March 2025.
• In Lille, Au Chat Voir Vivre closed at the start of 2022, the same year as Café Moustache in Rouen and Le Chat Fait Des Délices in Valenciennes.
• Les Ronrons des Chartrons in Bordeaux closed in August 2025, and Nekohi in Limoges on 7 April 2025.
• Ô Chat Beau Thé in Saint-Chéron, Essonne, closed in summer 2025 after rehoming nearly 150 cats in three years.
• Chat’lon de thé in Angers closed in 2026, as did Sweets and Cats in Sarreguemines, Au Chaleureux in Châteauroux and Le Miaou Miaou in Saint-Raphaël.
• Les Chapotins in Aix-les-Bains closed at the end of October 2024, and Lili et Mathou in Le Puy-en-Velay at the start of 2025.
• Also closed: Ronron Café in Reims (2022), Le Chat L’heureux in Nancy (2022), Le Chat Bulleux, Dijon’s first cat café, and Matouccino, Réunion’s first.

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