My husband and I recently had the pleasure of visiting Meow Parlour, NYC’s first ( and so far only) cat cafe. Cat have been around in Japan since the 1990’s but are finally catching on in other parts of the World including the USA and Canada.
We live 3 and a half hours from NYC so I just had to get there to check this out. They are connected with the Kitty Kind shelter and all the cats are adoptable. Since it opened in December of 2014, several cats have been adopted and only 2 of the original cats remain. You need to reserve your spot online a couple months ahead of your visit. The cost is $4per half hour per person. Once you are there though, you can stay longer and pay the difference at the end of your stay.
If you want coffee and pastry, you need to walk down the street and around the corner to the bakery section. NY food laws don’t allow food preparation near animals, but you can bring it in with you. The coffee and bakery were nothing special and a little pricey, but they did have cat shaped cookies.
Before you enter the cat area, you will be asked to remove your shoes ( so be sure to wear socks 🙂 ). They also have you wipe your hands with antibacterial gel. After that you are free to grab some toys and interact with the kitties. We went at 3 PM so most were napping.
There were some awake though that wanted attention:
I wanted to adopt this cutie, Franklin.
Meow Parlour is open from noon-8 PM daily except Wednesdays when they are closed. They are located at 46 Hester St., NYC . To reserve a spot, use this link:http://www.meowparlour.com/reservation/
Thanks Ellen
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Nice touch!
And did you come back with one? 😉
Thank you! No, my hubby was there to prevent that-15 is his limit.
oh yeah understood!!!
I’ve got a friend who got around 40……..plus few dogs….
WOW! This is for me the BEST CAFE in the world… I wished to fly there now 🙂 Thank you, have a nice day and new week, love, nia
Thank you 🙂 I hope you get to go there 🙂
Lordy! I wish we had a pet café.
Jean
They seem to be catching on-maybe someday you will. 🙂
One word, and one word only: proper ruddy amazeballs OMG.
Thank you 🙂
Meowarvelous! What a splendid idea! 🙂 ?
I hope more open all over the US and the World.
Cats are beautiful creatures. The fact that there is a cat cafe in NYC is both pretty funny and pretty cool
Thank you Lilly 🙂
Cats are beautiful creatures 🙂
!?WHEN CAN I GO?!
I need a cat cafe in our tiny village!!!! 🙂
Haha you have to go if one is near you! 🙂
I live in a teeny village, so that seems highly unlikely LOL!!!
Open your own :D? XD
My mum isn’t a cat fan :'(
Also, I don’t think I have that Much of a budget!
XD >_<
Oh 🙁 maybe there is one in a city close to you?
I’ll have to look into it! Just googling it now>_<
I looked into it. Bad news. The only one in the UK is in London, which is a 7 hour drive… :'( oh well!
Oh! You are in the UK. There is another one opening up in Nottingham this year and a third one in Bristol. Either of those closer to you? I live in London btw 🙂
Oh fab! I’ll see what I can do
🙂
Guess what?! MY MUM SAID I MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! 🙂
Woohoo 😀
Exactly! 😛
? make sure you take many photos ^^ always happy to feature a cat cafe visit guest story 🙂
Great idea….. although my birthday Is in July so quite long to wait!!!! >_<
It may seem like a long time but we are almost in April already! 🙂
!!!GOOD POINT!!!
Always look on he bright side! And when you get older time seems to be always slipping away LOL 😉
My mums always going on about that!!!
Haha sorry. It’s the truth! XD
Ah well… xD
Wow. This is just wonderful and the way it should be EVERYWHERE! Thanks for sharing the story about the best Cat Cafe ever!! Those cats sure look happy, as it should be. I just love the whole story and concept!
Thank you 🙂 They were very happy and relaxed.
This is great. It gave me the idea to Google “cat cafe Seattle” and much to my delight I discovered there is one in the works and you can read about it here: http://seattlemeowtropolitan.com/
Of course my own Diavolo keeps me pretty busy here but I still love to visit with other kitties so will be visiting this one when it opens.
If you go once it opens you have to do a guest post! 😉
I certainly will. I’ve signed up for their newsletter so will be up to date.
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Thanks for the information, I will read about that one, but I don’t travel that far so I will depend on your review.
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love it! Thanks for sharing the pictures =)
Awww so glad you liked Ellen’s post! 🙂
Thank you, my pleasure. I love sharing good cat news.
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Have you visited Meow Parlor yet?
Thank you 😀
Thanks for sharing 🙂
That is such a cool idea.
It is, I hope more catch on in other cities.
LOVE!! Thanks so much for sharing about this – how exciting! I had heard of this happening in Japan, it’s so cool it’s in the U.S.! Now, if we could just get one here down in Houston, I’d be super happy. 🙂
Most welcome Anne! 😀
How awesome! Wish I still lived on Long Island! Is this on the east side? West side? Or where?
Thank you so much for sharing. I want to open one in my town…. well, it is most definitely a dog town…. sigh….