Cat Cafes in Tehran

Tehran

Café ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​⁠Parseh is a long-running cafe-restaurant on Sarmad Alley, just off Valiasr Intersection and opposite Tehran's City Theatre, near Teatr-e Shahr metro station. Open for about 14 years, it presents itself as the cafe of the Valiasr cats: it looks after the cats of the neighbourhood, which come and go through the cafe and often settle among the tables or on customers' laps. The cats are not kept in a separate room and there is no entry fee; visitors order from the menu, and the number of cats present varies through the day. The all-day menu covers coffee, tea and herbal drinks, breakfast, paninis, pasta, salads, cakes, croissants, smoothies and shakes, with vegetarian and vegan options. Smoking is allowed.

Tehran

Persian ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​⁠Cat Museum, also known as Meowzeh, is a cat cafe and small museum in an old three-storey house on Mehr Alley, off Arak Street and Ostad Nejatollahi (Villa) Street in central Tehran. The ground floor and courtyard hold a cafe-restaurant serving coffee, Iranian drinks, pizza and pasta, while the two upper floors are home to around 30 resident cats, among them Persians, British Shorthairs, Russian Blues and domestic shorthairs. The cat floors also display cat-themed stamps, old photographs, caricatures and illustrations from Obeyd Zakani's Mouse and Cat. Visits to the cat floors are charged per person for a session of about 45 minutes, separately from the cafe, and the last visits are at 9 PM. Visitors wear shoe covers, and staff ask guests to let the cats approach first, pet them gently and not pick them up. Opened in 2020, it was Iran's first cat cafe.