Pop-Up Cat Cafe Opens in NYC This Week

gatagato · #1 ● 04-23-2014, 03:57 AM

A pop-up cat cafe is set to open in downtown Manhattan later this week, allowing visitors to pet free-roaming kittens while relaxing over coffee.

Visitors to the Cat Café, opening at 168 Bowery in the Bowery neighborhood on Thursday, will be able to pick up complimentary coffee beverages like the "cat'achino" and bakery items, then play with cats in the main lounge during operating hours, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The adoptable cats are from the North Shore Animal League America rescue group.

Purina One, the sponsor of the pop-up cafe, says speakers are also lined up to speak each day the cafe is open Thursday through Sunday.

Cat cafes are popular in Japan and have started to take off overseas. One cafe opened in London in March and saw bookings fill up through the end of June. The tea room, called Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium, charges customers about $8 for two hours of playtime with cats.

A few cat cafes are in the works in California.

I want to open a gatocafe now

They've opened one in Turin in Via Napione, the experiment was so successfull that surprised all those involved with the project. It's also a great way to help stray cats, and the cats are the actual owners of the cafe, no one of them ever tried to flee, as they have everything they need there: toys, sex, food, drinks and all the rest, maybe even drugs.