Nine Lives Cat Cafe

Doha · 0.4 mi / 0.6 km

Fat Cat Café is a cat café on the La Croisette promenade at Porto Arabia, The Pearl, on the ground floor of the Eighteen Porto Arabia tower. Opened in 2024, it is home to around 16 well-groomed cats of various breeds, many of them rescues. Visitors pay an entry fee for a timed session in a separate cat lounge, with 30-minute and one-hour packages, the longer one including a drink, and booking ahead by phone or email is recommended. Staff stay in the lounge to supervise and help children handle the cats gently. The café menu has coffee, cat-themed drinks, desserts, pastries and light meals, and there is a daily late-afternoon feeding hour for which visitors can book a slot. The café is open every day from morning until 10 PM, with afternoon opening and later closing on Fridays.

• Booking recommended

Lusail, Al Daayen · 2.4 mi / 3.8 km

Kitty Café is a cat café in Lusail, in the Malibu Residences building next to Q Fight Gym, a short walk behind Place Vendôme Mall. It opened in late 2023 as the first cat café in Qatar and now runs from this location only, after its original branch at the Cielo Hotel closed. Around 16 to 25 resident cats live in a dedicated lounge where visitors can pet, play with and feed them, and staff point out which cats are happy to be approached. Sessions run from 30 minutes to two hours, with lower prices for children and a free drink included in longer visits. The menu covers coffee, iced drinks and snacks, and there is a kids' zone, a membership club, birthday and event bookings and occasional cat-care workshops. Tables can be booked through the website.

Arad, Muharraq · 83 mi / 134 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.

Jannusan, Northern · 87 mi / 140 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

Al Khobar, Eastern Province · 104 mi / 168 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.

Dhahran, Eastern Province · 107 mi / 172 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.