Coffee Cats
West Des Moines, Iowa
Coffee Cats is a coffee shop and cat lounge on 5th Street in Historic Valley Junction, West Des Moines, and has been Iowa's first cat cafe since it opened in July 2020. The coffee shop serves coffee from Grounds for Celebration, tea, smoothies, Italian sodas and baked goods, and needs no reservation. A separate cat lounge houses around 10 to 12 adoptable cats from the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, and visitors pay a cover charge for an hour with them. Sessions usually start on the hour and are capped at six reserved guests plus two walk-ins, so booking ahead is recommended; children 5 and under enter free. More than 1,000 cats have been adopted through the Animal Rescue League since the cafe opened. Private hours in the cat lounge can be booked for birthdays, anniversaries and other small events, and the cafe sells its own merchandise.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended