The Cat Garden

Dhahran, Eastern Province · 1.4 mi / 2.3 km

Meow ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​⁠Cafe is a cat café inside Amwaj Mall on Prince Faisal Bin Fahd Road in Al Dawhah Al Janubiyah, on the Dhahran side of Al Khobar. It is the original branch of a local brand that runs Meow Cafe, Meow Show and Meow Care, with a second branch in Dareen Mall in Dammam. The venue has three parts: a café serving coffee, mojitos, milkshakes, waffles and cakes; a separate cat play area where visitors pay for a half-hour session and can buy food to feed the cats; and a grooming section for pet cats. The resident cats include a variety of breeds, and staff help children approach and handle them. The café also hosts birthday parties. It is open every day from 2 PM to 11 PM.

Al Khobar, Eastern Province · 2.9 mi / 4.7 km

Pets ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​​‌​‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​⁠Park is a cat lounge on Prince Bandar Street in Al Khobar Al Shamaliyah, Al Khobar, running under the slogan 'Qahwa w Qatwa' (coffee and a kitty). It opened as a café with a cat room and became one of the best-known cat cafés in the Eastern Province, later adding a branch in Dammam. The cat room holds around 25 cats of various breeds, and visitors buy a ticket for a half-hour session; treats can be bought to feed the cats, which tend to gather around anyone who opens a packet. At this branch the café side has been scaled back, and the venue now mainly operates as a cat room with timed entry. Bookings for groups, birthdays and events are taken by WhatsApp. It is popular with families with children and is open every afternoon and evening.

Dammam, Eastern Province · 8 mi / 12 km

Pets ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​⁠Park Dammam is the Dammam branch of the Pets Park cat lounge, inside the West Avenue complex on Omar Ibn Al Khattab Street in Al Faisaliyah. The owners describe it as a park for cats where families can drink coffee and play with beautiful and rare cats, and it pairs a café serving coffee and snacks with an indoor cat area holding several dozen cats of different breeds. Visitors pay an entry fee to go into the cat area for a timed session and can buy treats to feed the cats; the entry fee does not include café orders. The lounge is aimed at families and children, and some visitors come back regularly to see favourite cats. It is open every afternoon and evening.

Dammam, Eastern Province · 12 mi / 19 km

Meow ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌⁠Cafe Dammam is the second branch of the Meow Cafe brand, opened in early 2024 inside Dareen Mall on Khaleej Road in Al Aziziyah, Dammam. It combines a café, a cat play area and a small animal area known as Meow Zoo, with goats, rabbits and birds. The cat section and the animal section are separate and each has its own ticket, so visitors choose which one to enter; a cat session lasts half an hour, and cat food can be bought to feed the cats. The resident cats include a range of breeds, some of them unusual, and staff guide children on how to handle them. The café serves coffee, Arabic coffee, waffles and cakes. It is open every day from 2 PM to 11 PM.

Jannusan, Northern · 21 mi / 34 km

Animalia ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​⁠Cat Cafe is a cat café in Gardens Plaza on Budaiya Highway in Jannusan, part of Animalia by Yara, a pet complex with a vet clinic, grooming, pet physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, and a pet accessories boutique. Opened in early 2023, the café serves Italian-roast specialty coffee, drinks and snacks, and visitors pay an entry fee to spend time with resident cats, many of them rescues, in a separate cat area. Cats from the café are available for adoption. The café also runs pottery painting sessions, kids' camps and events, which makes it popular with families, and visits of around 30 minutes to an hour are typical. The wider Yara venue in the same building has bowling, karaoke and restaurants. Reservations and enquiries go through WhatsApp. It is open every day from 10 AM to 9:30 PM.

• Adoptable cats

Arad, Muharraq · 28 mi / 46 km

Meow ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​​⁠Pets Boutique & Spa is a pet shop in Arad, Muharraq, with a cat café area where visitors pay a small fee to pet, feed and play with the shop's cats. The cats live in a glass-walled play room that staff keep clean and monitor, and the shop's animals also include ferrets and a few dogs. Visits are charged by time in short blocks, which makes it a popular stop for families with young children. The shop also sells pet food, supplies and accessories, offers grooming and cat boarding with photo updates for owners, and runs a pet pick-up and delivery service. It is on Road 29 in Block 242 and is open daily until 11 PM.