Poland’s first cat café, Kociarnia in Kraków, opened on ul. Krowoderska in June 2015. Mrau Cafe in Lublin followed on 28 December 2015, and Miau Cafe in Warsaw in January 2016. Our directory now lists 45 cat cafés in Poland, but only about one in four is in Warsaw, Kraków or Wrocław. Most of the recent openings have been in mid-sized towns, from Zamość to Zgorzelec. About half are foster homes, where the cats are waiting to be adopted, and the rest keep resident cats, some of them pedigrees.
We checked every café below at the start of November 2026, against its own website and social accounts, Google and the local press. Opening hours and age limits change most often, so look at the café’s page before you travel.
How Cat Cafés Work in Poland
You usually don’t pay to get in. At most Polish cat cafés you just order coffee and cake, and your time with the cats is included. A cappuccino usually costs 14 to 19 zł and a slice of cake 20 to 28 zł. There are exceptions: Cat&Alice in Wrocław has a minimum order of 23.50 zł per person, Czarny Kot in Częstochowa charges 20 zł to guests who don’t order, 4CATS in Warsaw adds 10% to the bill for the cats, and in Nowy Sącz and Zakopane you pay separately to go into the cat room.
Booking depends on the café. Kociarnia in Kraków, Miau Cafe and Purr Purr in Warsaw and both Cat&Alice cafés don’t take bookings, so expect to wait for a table at weekends. Others, such as Mrau Cafe in Lublin, Koci Zakątek in Szczecin and Kotka Cafe in Gdańsk, take bookings online, by text or by phone, and some hold your table for an hour or two.
Check the age limit before you bring children. They vary a lot. Kociarnia admits children from 7, Neko Cafe in Toruń from 10, Purr Purr from 12, Miau Cafe from 13, and Kocie Cafe in Białystok and KITKU in Gorzów from 14. Many ask to see a school ID. Some have family days instead: Kot Cafe in Wrocław and Filemon in Starogard Gdański let younger children in on Sundays, and KITKU and Mruczkowo in Gliwice on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The house rules are much the same everywhere. You come in through a double door, opened one at a time so no cat slips out. You wash or sanitise your hands, and you don’t pick the cats up, wake them or feed them from your plate. Leave your own pets at home.
Adopting takes more than one visit. At the foster cafés you usually fill in a questionnaire and visit the cat several times, and the foundation or association checks your home and signs a contract with you. At 4CATS it takes about two weeks. Biały Kot in Gdynia charges no adoption fee.
New rules came in in March 2026. On 18 March 2026 Poland’s Animal Health Act came into force. Under it, any place outside a private home that keeps homeless animals counts as a shelter and must register with the county vet. Kotka Cafe in Gdańsk, a foster home for almost nine years, has kept only the owners’ own adopted cats in the café since those changes. Other cafés still describe themselves as foster homes, so if you want to adopt, ask how it works there.
Polish Cat Cafés at a Glance
City | First visit | Adoptable cats | Something different |
|---|---|---|---|
Warsaw | Miau Cafe | 4CATS, Miau Cafe | Ramen at Purr Purr |
Kraków | Kociarnia Lubicz | - | Sphynxes and Rexes at Cat&Alice |
Wrocław | Kot Cafe | - | Cat&Alice’s Wonderland theme |
Tricity | Biały Kot | Biały Kot | Haunted Villa’s gothic rooms in Sopot |
Toruń and Bydgoszcz | Neko Cafe | Pod Kocim Ogonem | Neko Cafe’s robot waiter |
Poznań and Szczecin | Kocimiętka | Kocimiętka, Koci Zakątek, Kota Gacka | Gacek the street cat’s spot |
Silesia | Mruczkowo (Gliwice) | Mruczkowo, Koci Gościniec | Kittens at Czarny Kot |
Łódź | Kocie Oczy | Kocury Cafe | Tea in house-shaped pots |
Lublin and Białystok | Mrau Cafe, Kocie Cafe | Mrau Cafe, Kocie Cafe | Koci Gaj’s aquarium (Zamość) |
Warsaw
For a capital, Warsaw has few cat cafés: three in the city and one in Legionowo. You’ll find them all on our Warsaw map.
Miau Cafe on ul. Naruszewicza in Mokotów, right by the exit of Wierzbno station on metro line M1, was Warsaw’s first cat café. It opened on ul. Zawiszy in January 2016 after an online fundraiser and moved to Mokotów in December 2017. There are two parts: a bar and a separate cat room, which only visitors aged 13 and over may enter, and staff check ID. Younger children can sit in the bar. The cats come from the Kocia Oaza association and are looking for homes; the only permanent resident is Karina, a Maine Coon who isn’t up for adoption. You order at the bar and take your dishes back yourself. A cappuccino costs 18.90 zł and a slice of cake 23 zł. There are no bookings, so when the cat room is full you wait in the bar. It’s open every day until 9pm, and until 8pm on Sundays. Here are places to stay near Centrum metro station on Booking.com; line M1 takes you from there to Wierzbno in a few minutes.
Purr Purr on ul. Pokorna in Muranów, north of the centre, has been a cat café and an Asian restaurant in one since 2021. The restaurant side serves ramen, onigiri and kimbap, and the cat zone, home to cats of several breeds including Sphynxes, is for ages 12 and over, checked at the door. There are no bookings except for groups of six or more. The cats have Mondays off, but the restaurant stays open.
4CATS in Miasteczko Wilanów, in the south of the city, is run by the 4CATS Foundation. It opened in 2025 and is home to about 30 cats waiting for adoption, most of them evacuated from war-hit regions of Ukraine and the rest from Polish shelters. It adds 10% to every order for the cats’ care, and a member of staff is always in the room. Children from 7 come with an adult, and from 14 they can come alone. Adoption starts with meeting the cat and, after an application and a second meeting, takes about two weeks. Booking a table is a good idea.
Just north of Warsaw, Kocia Kawiarnia Legionowo on ul. Batorego is a social enterprise of the ASY association, which supports families of children with autism and ADHD. All of its income goes to the association and to helping homeless cats. Alongside the resident cats, it houses kittens looking for homes, placed by the Koci Zakątek association. The room is small, so tables can be scarce at weekends. It opens at 2pm on weekdays and 10am at weekends, and it’s closed on Mondays.
Kraków
Kraków has the longest cat-café history in Poland. Kociarnia opened the first one at ul. Krowoderska 48 in June 2015 and, when it outgrew the space, moved to ul. Lubicz; older guides still give the old address. See our Kraków map.
Kociarnia Lubicz at ul. Lubicz 1, opposite Galeria Krakowska and a few minutes’ walk from Kraków Główny station, is the obvious first stop. You go in through a wooden wardrobe into several rooms of shelves, hammocks and scratching posts, shared by seven resident cats; the oldest, Szczęściara, was born in 2014. Entry is free and it takes no bookings at all. An espresso costs 11.90 zł, a cappuccino 17.90 zł and cheesecake or apple pie 24.90 zł. Children are admitted from 7, with a document showing their age. It’s open every day from 10am to 8pm. Kociarnia also runs cat yoga on Wednesdays and Fridays, booked online, and board-game nights. Here are places to stay near the Main Market Square on Booking.com.
The second Kociarnia, on ul. Karmelicka 10, just outside the Planty by the Teatr Bagatela tram stop, opened in July 2023. It has nine cats, including Szafran, a Maine Coon. Since 1 October 2026 it has let in walk-in guests only on Saturdays and Sundays, from 10am to 8pm, and on weekdays it hosts ticketed events: painting with wine, embroidery workshops, cat-behaviour talks and games nights. The rules are the same as at Lubicz.
Cat&Alice at ul. Podwale 3, on the edge of the Planty a few minutes from the Main Square, opened in 2025 as a sister café of Cat&Alice in Wrocław. Its six cats are unusual breeds: hairless Sphynxes and curly-coated Devon and Cornish Rexes. There’s no charge for the cats, and the menu has coffees, matcha, lemonades, sweet and savoury waffles and breakfasts. It opens at 10am every day and closes at 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and it’s usually quieter than Kociarnia. In October 2026, though, several guests complained of long waits for their orders.
In Kazimierz, a Maine Coon Café is planned at ul. Estery 3, but in November 2026 the space was still being renovated.
Two hours south, in Zakopane, Koci Świat on Krupówki isn’t a café but a paid room with more than a dozen pedigree cats: Bengals, British Shorthairs and Maine Coons. It takes cash only and is open every day until 10pm, so families drop in on rainy days. Its Google reviews are poor, though, and several from autumn 2026 say the cats seemed lethargic. In Nowy Sącz, on the pedestrian ul. Jagiellońska, Naked Beans is a coffee shop with a Sphynx room behind a mesh screen, visible through its big window. You pay a separate fee to go in, and it’s open every day from noon to 6pm.
Wrocław
Wrocław has four cat cafés, two of them on ul. Igielna, just off the Market Square. See our Wrocław map.
Kot Cafe on ul. Dubois in Nadodrze, across the Oder from the Old Town, opened in March 2018 as Wrocław’s first cat café. Its eight cats mostly have stories: Bambaryłka, born in 2008, came after her previous owner died, and Borys was bottle-fed after he was found as a three-week-old kitten. Visitors must be 10 or older, but younger children are welcome with an adult every Sunday. Booking is free and optional, but you have to phone at least a day ahead. It’s open every day from 11am to 8pm. Here are places to stay near the Market Square on Booking.com.
KOTON at ul. Igielna 41, open since 2018, is home to male cats chosen from those in the care of the Fundacja Kotłownia rescue because they like people. Of the first four, Henryk, Kazimierz and Dyzio are still there. They’re adoption ambassadors: the walls carry photos of the foundation’s cats still waiting for homes. The coffee comes from Czarny Deszcz, a Wrocław roastery, and the cakes, vegan ones included, from local bakers, and there are sofas, poufs, a rocking chair and chess. KOTON is open every day from 10am to 9pm.
A few doors away at Igielna 14/15, Cat&Alice takes its look from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Its host is a cat called Cheshire, and the cats include Sphynxes and Burmese. There’s no entry fee, but there’s a minimum order of 23.50 zł per person, and at busy times your table is yours for 90 minutes from when you order. There are no bookings. Children from 2 are admitted on weekdays and from 5 at weekends, but not prams.
In Krzyki, at ul. Powstańców Śląskich 140 near Rondo Reagana, Kawa i kot. is a small café with four cats, opened in August 2021 by owners who wanted to combine their love of cats and baking. The cakes are baked on site, the coffees are named after cats, and there’s no background music. Calm children are welcome with an adult, and booking is a good idea at weekends.
On the German border, in Zgorzelec, across the Neisse from Görlitz, Lucy Cat Cafe opened in late July 2026, named after Lucy, one of its cats. Leon, a ginger cat, is known for stealing cake from plates. Visitors must be at least 7, and it’s open from Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8pm.
The Tricity and Pomerania
Biały Kot on ul. Władysława IV in central Gdynia, opposite the fire station, opened in May 2017 as the Tricity’s first cat café. It’s a foster home for the OTOZ Animals Ciapkowo shelter: the cats formally belong to the shelter, all of them are looking for homes, and more than 200 had been adopted by 2025. The café charges no adoption fee. Children are admitted from 10, and without an adult from 13, and staff check ID. Don’t pick the cats up or make sudden movements, as many have had a hard start. Biały Kot is open from Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8pm. See our Pomerania map.
Kotka Cafe in Gdańsk opened in May 2017 on the old market square in Oliwa. It had to leave Oliwa at the end of July 2025 and is now on ul. Waryńskiego in Wrzeszcz, although older lists still give its old addresses. For almost nine years it was a foster home and helped more than 550 cats find homes. Since the rules changed in March 2026, the only cats living in the café are the owners’ own adopted cats, while the team still arranges adoptions of cats in private foster homes. It’s for visitors aged 14 and over. Children aged 10 to 14 can come with a phone booking, and younger children only to weekend workshops with a cat behaviourist. You get your table for an hour, and everyone has to order. Kotka Cafe is open every day from 11am to 7pm.
In Sopot, on al. Niepodległości, Haunted Villa Cat Cafe opened in summer 2026, decorated as a haunted villa. Five long-haired Siberian cats live there, and a handmade album tells each one’s story. The drinks have themed names, such as a witchy matcha. It’s closed to ordinary guests on Mondays and Saturdays, when it holds events.
In Rumia, between Gdynia and Wejherowo, Kotkowe LOVE on ul. Kościelna opened on Friday 13 March 2026. It’s a small café with two ginger cats, Tofi and Mamut, and big slices of homemade cake. It’s closed on Mondays.
An hour south of Gdańsk, in Starogard Gdański, Filemon on ul. Hallera is run by the Filemon association. It has a dozen or so cats waiting for adoption, most often kittens a few months old. From Monday to Saturday, children from 8 can come only with a booking, and on Sundays children from 5 are welcome, five at most at a time. You book a table through the online form.
In Elbląg, opposite St Nicholas Cathedral, MARKICIA on ul. Rybacka opened in February 2025. Its 130 square metres are home to twelve cats waiting for adoption, mostly from the Burasek foundation in Gdynia. You ring the bell and staff open the door, so no cat slips out. Children from 8 can come any day, and younger children on set family days.
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Toruń, Bydgoszcz and Inowrocław
Toruń has two Neko Cafes, both in the Old Town a few minutes from the Old Town Market Square. The first, Neko Cafe on ul. Prosta 17, opened on 19 July 2018 as the city’s first cat café. The second and larger, Neko Cafe on ul. Chełmińska 11, has breeds such as a Bengal among its cats. In both, the cats roam between the tables, staff hand out wand toys, and some orders arrive on a cat-faced robot waiter, which the cats like to follow. Entry is free, there are no bookings, and visitors must be 10 or older. Both are open every day, from 11am on weekdays and 10am at weekends. See our Toruń map.
The same team opened a third Neko Cafe in Inowrocław on 10 April 2026, on ul. Solankowa, the street that leads to the spa park and its brine graduation towers. It has five cats, a mix of pedigrees and ordinary moggies, and walkways for them run above the tables. The rules are the same as in Toruń.
Bydgoszcz has three cat cafés, two of them on ul. Długa in the Old Town. Bonifacy Cafe at Długa 70 moved here from Grudziądz at the end of August 2026. Four cats belonging to the owners keep guests company, two Sphynxes, a Siberian and a Maine Coon, and they go home with them every evening. The long menu runs to pinsa, burgers and pancakes, and an adoption corner run with the Bydgoszcz animal shelter shows shelter cats looking for homes. Visitors must be 9 or older. In a cellar at Długa 36, the club café Pod Kocim Ogonem opened in June 2026 and works with the Stukot association; the cats living there are in its care and can be adopted. Evenings bring crafting circles, RPG sessions, Scrabble contests and small concerts. The newest, Biszkot Café on ul. Inowrocławska 59, opened in late October 2026: a small speciality coffee shop with the owner’s own cats, cakes and syrups made on site and an unusual matcha list. It’s open from Tuesday to Sunday, for ages 8 and up.
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Poznań, Szczecin and Western Poland
Kocimiętka at ul. Ratajczaka 18, in the passage by the Apollo cinema, opened in 2018 as Poznań’s first cat café. It has two cat rooms, a large and a small one, where rescued cats wait for adoption; more than 300 have found homes through the café. Every day from 2pm to 3pm the cats have a break to eat and rest. Children under 14 are admitted only at set times: to the large room from 12:30pm to 8pm, and to the small one from 10am to 3:30pm. A latte costs 19 zł and waffles 26 to 33 zł, and there are breakfasts and zapiekanki too. See our Poznań map.
About an hour south, in Leszno, Kocie Łapki at Rynek 9 pairs a café with a separate cat area that you enter through its own door. Some of the cats are residents and some are up for adoption. Children must stay with their parents throughout.
In Gorzów Wielkopolski, on ul. Mostowa near the Warta, KITKU CAFE opened on 10 February 2023. It’s a foster home, and the cats share a garden with the guests. It’s for ages 14 and over, and younger children can come only on Mondays and Tuesdays, with an adult. On weekdays it’s open from 10:30am to 7:30pm, and until 10pm on Saturdays.
Szczecin has two cat cafés, both central and both foster homes. Koci Zakątek Cafe on ul. Śląska opened in November 2023 as the city’s first. It usually has ten or more cats from TOZ Szczecin and ZTZ, and more than 70 have been adopted through it. Entry is free, coffee starts at 10 zł, and it admits only ages 13 and over, even with an adult. It takes walk-ins when there’s room, but at weekends and in the afternoon it’s worth booking by text; a booking only counts once the café confirms it. Kawiarnia Kota Gacka on ul. Kaszubska stands where Gacek, a street cat who became one of Szczecin’s most popular attractions on Google Maps, once had his shelter. It opened on Friday 13 December 2024 at 13:13, and its cats are waiting for adoption. Gacek himself now lives in a home. See our Szczecin map.
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Silesia and Opole
In November 2026 there was no cat café in Katowice. Koci Zaułek on ul. Damrota, which opened after a 2017 fundraiser, was gone by 2018. The nearest are in Gliwice, Bytom and Ruda Śląska.
Mruczkowo on ul. Dworcowa in Gliwice, a few minutes’ walk from the station, opened in Zabrze in 2018 and later moved to Gliwice. It’s a foster home for about ten rescued cats and kittens, every one of them waiting for adoption. Entry is free, and you can book a table by phone. Children from 7 are welcome all week, and younger ones, aged 4 to 7, only on Mondays and Tuesdays with a booking. Mruczkowo is open every day from 10am to 8pm. See our Silesia map.
Koci Gościniec in Bytom, on ul. Dworcowa near the Agora shopping centre, is a café and foster home through which more than 400 cats have found homes. You go in through the courtyard next to the Kiermasz shop. It has announced that it will close at the end of December 2026, and it’s looking for homes for its last cats. In Ruda Śląska, Kocia Kawiarnia Tom on ul. Niedurnego has nine cats in two rooms and no extra charge for time with them. It’s for ages 8 and up and open from noon to 7pm, except on Tuesdays.
Kocia Kawiarnia Bielsko-Biała at ul. Krakowska 19 opened in May 2023 as the city’s first. It announced its closure in September 2025, but in November 2026 it was still open. Its resident cats climb over the furniture and settle on laps, and staff look for homes for some of them. Booking isn’t required, but it guarantees a seat. It’s closed on Wednesdays.
In Częstochowa, on ul. Kopernika in Śródmieście, Czarny Kot opened in July 2023. It’s the city’s only cat café and a foster home for young kittens, which live there with the resident cats until they’re adopted. The cakes are homemade. If you don’t order anything, entry costs 20 zł, and children are admitted from 13.
In Opole, on ul. Rodziewiczówny next to branch 7 of the city library, Niebieski Kot has been open since August 2022. It has about ten resident cats and, as a registered foster home, also takes cats from the municipal shelter, so at least one is usually looking for a home. Visitors must be 8 or older, and it runs cat yoga, cat poetry evenings and painting workshops. It’s closed on Mondays.
Łódź and Around
Herbaciarnia Kocie Oczy, in a courtyard off ul. Piotrkowska 25 at the north end of the main street near Plac Wolności, is a tea room furnished like a grandmother’s flat, full of trinkets, crocheted doilies and old furniture. Six female cats live there for good, with resting places out of guests’ reach, so they choose when to come over. The menu lists dozens of teas, served in house-shaped pots, plus apple pie, cheesecake and cat-shaped biscuits. The room is small, so there may be a short wait, and at weekends there are sessions for children with a cat behaviourist. Kocie Oczy is open every day from 11am to 8pm. See our Łódź map.
A little further down, in a gateway at Piotrkowska 51, Kocury Cafe opened on 24 October 2026. It’s run by the team behind Koci Mietka in Koszalin, which closed on 31 August 2026 after eight years: its Facebook page now posts as Kocury Cafe, and its “chairman” is Mustafa, one of the Koszalin cats. The café works with the Łódź animal shelter, so shelter cats can be adopted there. Kocury Cafe is open every day from 9am to 9pm.
Outside Łódź there are cat cafés in two smaller towns. In Wieluń, Catpuccino on ul. Wojska Polskiego, open since 2025, is home to five female cats: Jadzia, Madzia, Tola, Pola and Danusia. It serves Chemex coffee and has books and games, and a board of photos of cats from local volunteers helps them find homes. In Zduńska Wola, MRRR & MIAU on ul. Łaska is a quiet café with six cats that like to come up to guests, and mugs with their photos to take home.
Lublin, Zamość, Kielce and Białystok
Mrau Cafe on ul. Orla, a few minutes’ walk from the Old Town, opened on 28 December 2015 as Poland’s second cat café. In November 2026 it had six cats: five looking for homes and one resident. More than 50 cats have been adopted through it. A cappuccino costs 14 zł and cake 20 zł. Tables can be booked for two hours, and it’s worth booking at weekends. Children under 6 aren’t admitted, visits with children aged 6 to 12 must be booked at least two days ahead, with a 48 zł deposit, and only at set times, and anyone under 16 must come with an adult. See our Lublin map.
In Zamość, on ul. Spadek, Koci Gaj opened in July 2025 as the city’s first cat café. A former deputy director of the Zamość zoo designed the interior: instead of shelves, the cats climb imitation trees covered in real bark, with oak branches running for tens of metres under the ceiling. A 400-litre Amazon-style aquarium has a glass dome the cats can sit in among about 180 fish. It’s for ages 12 and over and closed on Mondays.
In Kielce, Łakocie on ul. Świętego Leonarda opened on 30 May 2026 as the city’s first cat café. It’s a foster home for cats from two local rescue groups, and all the cats living there can be adopted. Children may go into the cat zone from 7, and under-12s only with an adult. When all the tables are taken, staff ask you to come back later.
In Białystok, Kocie Cafe on ul. Warszawska has been a foster home for the Kotkowo Foundation since 11 March 2021, and more than 260 cats have been adopted through it. It opens at 9am every day and serves breakfast all day. It’s for ages 14 and over, with 12- and 13-year-olds admitted with an adult. For younger children, aged 6 to 11, it runs “Poznaj Kota” (Meet a Cat) mornings, when the café is closed to other guests, and once a month there’s cat yoga and a cat cinema night.
In November 2026 there was no open cat café in Rzeszów or Olsztyn.
Closed Polish Cat Cafés
These still appear on older lists, and sometimes on Google:
- Miau Grau on ul. Kolejowa in Wola, Warsaw, closed on 29 May 2026. Google still showed it as open in November 2026.
- Koci Mietka in Koszalin closed on 31 August 2026; its team then opened Kocury Cafe in Łódź.
- Kotłownia in Rzeszów closed at the end of March 2025.
- Kocia Ferajna, Bydgoszcz’s first cat café, opened in 2017 and closed around the turn of 2024 and 2025.
- Cat House Café in Rybnik closed in October 2025.
- Kocia Kawiarnia Olsztyn Kocha Koty closed in July 2024, and Kici Caffe in Olsztyn was temporarily closed in November 2026.
- Koci Zen in Przemyśl and Koci Zaułek in Katowice have also closed, and Lord Kot in Suwałki was temporarily closed in November 2026.
- Kociarnia at ul. Krowoderska 48 in Kraków and Kotka Cafe in Oliwa in Gdańsk are old addresses of cafés that are now elsewhere.
Browse everything on our Poland cat café map, and if you’re new to cat cafés, start with what a cat café is. For how it all began, see our history of the world’s first cat café.
