Cat Cafes in Baghdad

Baghdad

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

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

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