Black Forest Cat Café
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Black Forest Cat Café is a family-run coffee shop and cat lounge in the JoAnn Plaza shopping center on Coldwater Road on the north side of Fort Wayne. A mother and daughter opened it in June 2022, and in August 2025 it celebrated its 1,000th adoption. The cafe serves coffee, specialty drinks and house-made pastries, with plant-based milk options, and anyone can use the large cafe area without visiting the cats. The woodland-themed cat lounge is separate, and its adoptable cats all come from Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control. Lounge visits are booked online or taken as walk-ins when there is space. Adoption starts with the shelter's application form, and the cafe handles the meeting and paperwork on site. The lounge can also be booked for events, and the cafe accepts donations of food and litter for the cats.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended