Cat Cafes in Toulouse, Occitanie

Toulouse, Occitanie

Chapristea is a neko café and salon de thé on Rue Jules Chalande in central Toulouse, between the Capitole and Esquirol métro stations, about 200 metres from Place du Capitole. Opened in 2016 as the city's first bar à chats, it has a vaulted brick room arranged for a group of around eight cats. Most were adopted from the association Le Chat Libre de Toulouse and three are pedigree cats from regional catteries; the association also places cats here for adoption, and dozens have found homes through the café. Visitors clean their hands before entering and follow the house rules. Light lunches such as tarts and salads are served from noon to 2 pm and can be booked; the rest of the day it runs as a tea room with specialist teas and pastries, and entry is free within available seats.

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Toulouse, Occitanie

Mon Chat Pitre Toulouse is a general bookshop and tea room with resident cats on Rue de la Bourse in central Toulouse, in the premises of the former Tire-Lire bookshop. It opened in April 2026 as a branch of the Mon Chat Pitre ronron-librairie network founded in Aix-en-Provence in 2021. Its five bookshop cats all came from shelters and associations and live there permanently, so they are not up for adoption, although the shop promotes cats waiting in partner rescues. Visitors browse novels, comics, children's books and cat-themed titles with the cats wandering between the shelves, and a counter at the back serves coffee, drinks, cheesecake and other pastries plus savoury dishes. The vaulted basement is the cats' favourite area, with seating where guests can read and relax among them. Entry is free.