Cat Cafes in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

The ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​⁠Catio Cat Lounge is a nonprofit cat lounge and adoption center on Music Valley Drive in Nashville, near the Opryland and Opry Mills area. Run by Catio Cat Lounge Inc., a 501(c)(3), it rescues and rehomes around a thousand cats a year and puts particular effort into senior, shy, sick or injured cats that struggle to get adopted elsewhere; a second room, the Senior Catio, gives older cats with special needs their own space. Visitors pay a small fee to spend time with the free-roaming cats in a cage-free lounge, with walk-ins welcome and reservations recommended; the last booking starts an hour before closing. There is a small snack and coffee bar and a gift shop with Catio merchandise. Family packages, group rates, prepaid visits and monthly memberships are offered, the lounge can be rented for private events, and it hosts painting and movie nights with the cats.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Nashville, Tennessee

Crossroads ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​⁠Cat Café is a nonprofit coffee shop and cat adoption room on Buchanan Street in the Buchanan Arts District of North Nashville, run by Crossroads Campus, which pairs animal rescue with paid job training for young adults overcoming homelessness. The cafe serves specialty coffee, breakfast sandwiches, salads, pastries and ice cream, and the baristas are interns in the training program. Adoptable cats from Crossroads' own rescue live in a room behind a large viewing window that anyone can watch from the cafe; to go in and play with them, visitors book a session online for a modest fee. Anyone who connects with a cat can start an adoption through Crossroads. The cafe hosts a free open mic night on the second Wednesday of each month and a cat-themed story and craft hour for children on the second Saturday, and it can be booked for parties and meetings.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking required