Catuccino Cat Café

Erbil · 93 mi / 149 km

Furry ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​⁠Cat Cafe is a cat cafe in Erbil, northwest of the citadel. When it opened in 2022 it was the first cat cafe in the city and the Kurdistan Region. Its owner, Aya Abdulnasir, keeps about 20 cats of different breeds. Most were adopted, and all are vaccinated and seen by a vet. A wall at the entrance to the cat area gives each cat's name, birthday and breed. The cats live in a separate room that visitors enter for a fixed fee, about IQD 6,500 per adult in 2024, while companions can wait in the main cafe. Staff explain how to treat the cats, speak Kurdish, Arabic and English, and will take photos of visitors with the cats. Cat food is sold for feeding them. The menu has coffee, hot chocolate, herbal tea, juices, smoothies and snacks. Children are welcome. It is open every day from the afternoon until late evening.

Kermanshah · 127 mi / 204 km

Cafe ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​⁠Narenj is a small nostalgic cafe in central Kermanshah, on the side street opposite the Labour Office near Mosaddegh Square, on the ground floor beside the Qasr-e Pardeh building. Decorated in the style of 1970s Iran with lace curtains, wooden tables and vintage radios, it is also home to a group of resident cats, among them Narenj, Max, Konjed and Caesar, who wander the seating area and nap among the old furniture. The cats are cared for by a vet and spend part of each day in the cafe, and they are kept out of the kitchen. There is no entry fee; visitors order from a menu of coffee, tea, breakfast, pasta and cakes. The cafe has been running for around a decade and is closed on Fridays.

Baqubah, Diyala · 132 mi / 212 km

Bashouna ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌⁠(بشونة) is a cat cafe at the Al-Quds intersection in Baqubah, Diyala Governorate, next to Kudo Kudo, and the third branch of a chain whose other two cafes are in Zayouna Mall and Al-Amiriya Mall in Baghdad. It was open by September 2025, when its owner, Mohammed Omar, told 964 that the cats had been abandoned by their owners and taken in by the staff, who had them vaccinated and sterilized; a cat keeper looks after them every day. The chain's posts also tag cats as available for adoption and for sale. The cat area is closed off from the rest of the cafe, with one section for sitting among the cats and another for watching them, while families have a separate area for drinks and food. Visitors sanitize their hands and put on shoe covers before entering. Entry cost IQD 5,000 per person in 2025, and a visitor reported the same price per child in September 2026.

• Adoptable cats

Baghdad · 164 mi / 263 km

Bashouna ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌⁠(بشونة) is a cat cafe on the second floor of Zayouna Mall in eastern Baghdad, the first branch of a small Iraqi chain that also has cafes in Al-Amiriya Mall in western Baghdad and at the Al-Quds intersection in Baqubah. The Zayouna branch was open by February 2025, and its name joins the Arabic words for people and cats. The cats, which the chain says include rare breeds, have their own area separate from the seating, and its posts tag them as available both for adoption and for sale. Entry to the cat area cost IQD 5,000 per person in 2025, and a visitor reported the same price per child in September 2026. The cafe serves hot and cold drinks and snacks. Children are welcome, and kindergarten groups have visited. Its Instagram account links to that of Miu Zone, the Mansour cat cafe that opened in December 2024 and later closed, and the Miu Zone account has since posted for Bashouna.

• Adoptable cats

Baghdad · 164 mi / 264 km

Catmos ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌​⁠Cafe (كاتموس كافيه) is a cat cafe on the seventh floor of the Al-Faqma sweets building in the Zayouna neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, near the Zayouna passport office. Iraqi entrepreneur Mohammed Al Fawah opened it on April 1, 2025, for Eid al-Fitr; it calls itself the largest cat cafe in Iraq and said in 2026 that it had about 90 cats. The cats and kittens live in a separate hall with glass walls, so diners can watch them from the cafe tables, and visitors who pay an entry fee (IQD 5,000 per person at the end of 2025) can go in to play with and feed them. An Instagram highlight presents cats for adoption. Families often bring children. The cafe serves hot and cold drinks, cakes and pastries, has a piano that guests may play and a small shop of cat goods, and holds events in the cat hall, among them film screenings on several evenings a week (IQD 10,000 with popcorn in October 2026) and pottery and pumpkin painting workshops.

• Adoptable cats

Baghdad · 170 mi / 273 km

Bashouna ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​⁠(بشونة) is a cat cafe on the second floor of Al-Amiriya Mall in the Karkh side of western Baghdad. It opened in July 2025 as the second branch of the Bashouna chain, after the original cafe in Zayouna Mall in eastern Baghdad, and a third branch followed in Baqubah. The name joins the Arabic words for people and cats. The cats, which the chain says include rare breeds, have their own area separate from the seating, and some move between the branches; the chain's posts tag them as available both for adoption and for sale. Entry to the cat area cost IQD 5,000 per person in 2025, and a visitor reported the same price per child in September 2026. The cafe serves hot and cold drinks and snacks, and children are welcome. The chain has held events such as a painter who worked at a different branch each day.

• Adoptable cats