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Cat Cafes in United States
There are 434 cat cafes in United States.
Don't Stress Meowt Cat Cafe
Tulsa, Oklahoma
don't stress meowt in Tulsa is the second location of Oklahoma's first cat cafe, opened in January 2025 in The Farm Shopping Center at 51st Street and Sheridan Road in midtown Tulsa. The coffee shop is free to visit and serves specialty coffee, non-coffee drinks, paninis and cat-shaped mochi taiyaki, while glass walls give everyone a view of the cat lounge. The lounge is home to around 30 to 50 adoptable cats from community rescue partners, mostly cats at high risk in shelters, and it has high walkways, perches and a private retreat where cats can go to rest. Lounge visits are hour-long paid sessions; reservations are recommended and walk-ins are accepted when space is available. There is no minimum age, but children under 12 must be with an adult. The Tulsa cafe also offers cat grooming and boarding.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended
Tabby Tea Cat Lounge
Davis, California
Tabby Tea Cat Lounge is a small cat adoption lounge inside Cat Tales Feline Health Center, a cat-only veterinary clinic on West Covell Boulevard in north Davis. Opened in December 2024 as the city's first cat lounge, it hosts a few adoptable cats and kittens at a time from the Yolo County shelter, which visitors meet in a quiet, fear-free room. Visits are booked by the hour online, with a per-person fee that goes to local shelters and animal welfare groups, and include a complimentary hot or cold drink and Wi-Fi. Children aged 8 and up are welcome with an adult. House rules ask guests not to pick up the cats or wake sleeping ones, to play with wand toys rather than hands, and to keep drinks in lidded cups. Cats in the lounge can be adopted through the clinic together with the Yolo County shelter.
- Adoptable cats
Cat Daddy's Cat Cafe
Columbia, South Carolina
Cat Daddy's Cat Cafe is a cat cafe on Main Street in Columbia, between the Cottontown and Elmwood Park neighborhoods about two miles north of the State House. It began when the owner, Mohammad, started feeding and then taking in stray cats from the neighborhood, and the cafe is now home to more than a dozen rescued resident cats. The coffee bar serves drip coffee, espresso and seasonal lattes made with locally roasted beans, lemonades, ice cream and desserts, and visitors pay for a 30-minute or one-hour session in the separate cat room. Socks are required in the cat room, and cat socks are sold at the desk. Walk-ins are welcome, and booking ahead is recommended at weekends; the room can also be reserved for parties. The cafe sells cat merchandise and local goods and holds occasional adoption events.
- Booking recommended
The Black Cat Market
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Black Cat Market is a woman-owned cat cafe and adoption center on Penn Avenue in Garfield, which began on Butler Street in Lawrenceville in 2017 before moving to its current home. Visitors book half-hour sessions in a cat room designed for both people and cats, with benches that double as tunnels for cats that want to hide, and reservations are highly recommended, though a few walk-in spaces are kept. All the cats in the room can be adopted, and well over a hundred have found homes through the market. Drinks and cat-themed merchandise are sold at the front, and a fuller coffee shop is planned. The space hosts a steady programme of community events, including adults-only yoga with the cats, craft workshops and art shows, and it can be booked for parties. Students get a small weekday discount, and a frequent-visitor pass is available.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended
The Whole Cat and Kaboodle
Kirkland, Washington
The Whole Cat and Kaboodle is a cat care center on Kirkland Avenue in downtown Kirkland that combines a cat store, grooming, boarding and a rescue with an adoption cat cafe. Founder Nancy Howard opened the business in 2013 and added the cafe after moving to the current space in 2017. The cafe is a living-room style space with free-roaming cats, all of them adoptable, and a self-serve drink station with coffee and tea. Games, cat TV and a treat dispenser are on hand. Visits carry a per-person fee and are booked online, with reservations encouraged on weekdays and expected on weekends; children are welcome with adult supervision and every visitor signs a waiver. The rescue focuses on hard-to-place cats, many needing rehabilitation, and arranges adoptions through an application and in-person consultation. Proceeds from the cafe support its nonprofit, Feral Care.
- Adoptable cats
Kittens in Cups
Annapolis, Maryland
Kittens in Cups is a cat lounge in a small commercial building on Defense Highway in Annapolis, Maryland, which has been temporarily closed since 2023 and has not announced a reopening. When it was open, visitors could spend time with and snuggle adoptable cats from the Anne Arundel County SPCA over coffee and treats. The lounge featured a cat of the week, shared updates on adopted cats and sold cat-themed goods in a small shop.
- Adoptable cats
Ella's Cathouse & Adoption Center
Napa, California
Ella's Cathouse & Adoption Center is a cage-free, no-kill cat adoption center run by the Napa nonprofit Jameson Humane in the Food City shopping center on Old Sonoma Road in south Napa. Formerly Ella's Cathouse & Catnip Bar, it reopened at this location in 2025. Walk-in visitors are welcome during the Friday to Sunday afternoon opening hours to spend time with adoptable cats and kittens of all ages in an open, cage-free space, and some sanctuary cats also live on site. Groups who want the cats to themselves can arrange a private visit by email, limited to four guests with up to two children accompanied by an adult. Adoption involves an application, a home check and an adoption fee. The center is named after the late cat of a Jameson Humane board member and has helped about 100 cats find homes since reopening.
- Adoptable cats
The Dancing Cat
San Jose, California
The Dancing Cat is a nonprofit cat adoption lounge at 702 East Julian Street, near downtown San Jose, founded by Ann Chasson and Mary Rubin and run as Karma Cat Rescue. It began as a four-week pop-up in May 2015, reopened in May 2016 with Silicon Valley Pet Project and has operated as an independent rescue since September 2018. Its cats are mostly adults at risk at the San Jose Animal Care Center, and seven to eleven of them normally live cage-free in a living-room-style lounge with a quiet back room. Visits are booked by the hour for a small admission fee, children must be 5 or older and with an adult, and guests may bring their own coffee or snacks. Adoption fees range from $80 to $155, and adopted cats are delivered to their new homes. An SUV crashed into the entrance on September 2, 2025; no cats were hurt, but the lounge has been closed for repairs since then and its cats are in foster homes, still available for adoption.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended
Mini Cat Town San Jose
San Jose, California
Mini Cat Town San Jose is a kitten lounge and adoption floor inside Eastridge Shopping Center in East San Jose. It was the first adoption floor of Mini Cat Town, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by sisters Thi, Thoa and Tram Bui that specializes in rescuing neonatal kittens from local shelters; the kittens are raised in foster homes and move to the adoption floor once they are about eight weeks old, two pounds and spayed or neutered. Visitors pay an admission fee for a 30-minute session in a living room-style space where the kittens roam freely. Entry is walk-in only and runs on a waitlist when busy, usually from early afternoon on weekends, and every guest signs a waiver and sanitizes before going in. The last group enters 30 minutes before closing. All kittens are adoptable through an online application and appointment.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome
Mini Cat Town Pleasanton
Pleasanton, California
Mini Cat Town Pleasanton is a kitten lounge and adoption center inside Stoneridge Shopping Center, the mall beside I-580 and I-680 in Pleasanton. It is run by Mini Cat Town, a San Jose nonprofit founded in 2015 by sisters Thi, Thoa and Tram Bui to rescue neonatal kittens; the kittens are raised in foster homes and come to the lounge once they are weaned, spayed or neutered and ready for adoption. Visitors pay a per-person admission for a 30-minute session in a living room-style room where the kittens play freely. Entry is walk-in only, and a waitlist often forms on weekend afternoons. Each guest signs a waiver and goes through a short sanitizing process before entering, and the last group goes in 30 minutes before closing. Every kitten is adoptable through Mini Cat Town's online application and an adoption appointment.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome
Mini Cat Town Milpitas
Milpitas, California
Mini Cat Town Milpitas is a kitten lounge and adoption center inside the Great Mall in Milpitas, a short walk from the Milpitas BART and VTA station. It belongs to Mini Cat Town, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by sisters Thi, Thoa and Tram Bui that rescues neonatal kittens from Bay Area shelters, raises them in foster homes and places them on its adoption floors once they are old enough and spayed or neutered. Guests pay per person for a 30-minute session in a play area where the kittens roam freely, and a few resident cats sometimes keep staff company at the front desk. Admission is walk-in only and subject to a waitlist at busy times. Visitors scan in, sign a waiver, sanitize and put on shoe covers before entering, and the last group goes in 30 minutes before closing. All kittens are available for adoption.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome
Mini Cat Town Palo Alto
Palo Alto, California
Mini Cat Town Palo Alto is a kitten lounge and adoption center on California Avenue, Palo Alto's pedestrian-friendly shopping street a few blocks from the California Avenue Caltrain station. Mini Cat Town, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by sisters Thi, Thoa and Tram Bui, rescues neonatal kittens from shelters, raises them in foster homes and brings them to its lounges for adoption. The organization had a temporary space at Stanford Shopping Center until early 2025 and opened this storefront later that year. Visitors pay a per-person fee for a 30-minute session in a large room with toys and climbing spots where the kittens and young cats move around freely, and volunteers look after them. Entry is walk-in only and can involve a wait on weekends. Every guest signs a waiver, and the last group enters 30 minutes before closing. All the cats are adoptable.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome
Check each cafe's website for current hours, booking requirements and age restrictions before visiting.