Thursday, November 13, 2014

Owners of Macaron Parlor on St. Mark's Place opening city's first cat cafe



Christina Ha and Emilie Legrand, the owners of Macaron Parlour on St. Mark's Place, have announced that they are opening Meow Parlour on the Lower East Side next month.

According to Eater, who first reported this news today, the cat cafe will be at 46 Hester St. (between Essex and Ludlow) ... with a planned Dec. 15 opening date.

Here are details via the Meow Parlour website:

At Meow Parlour, you can rent time to access to our space, where we have adoptable free roaming cats. You can come for as little as half an hour so you can just pet the cats or stay for up to five hours where you can use our free wi-fi while a cat naps next to you.

You can bring in food or beverage you purchase at Meow Parlour Patisserie, located around the corner from Meow Parlour and enjoy a sweet treat in the company of a furry friend.

All the cats are adoptable. Meow Parlour has teamed up with KittyKind, an all volunteer, no kill rescue group located in NYC. KittyKind specializes in adopting out cats so if you fall in love, you can apply to adopt one!

And more via Eater:

It's $4 for every half hour, and there's a limit of five hours maximum. Plus, the cafe takes online reservations, which is probably a better bet than just trying to walk in.

As we've heard, cats are popular, unless you are a dog person, though it is not uncommon for people to like cats and dogs.

Last spring, the pop-up Cat Café on the Bowery attracted long lines. Really long lines.

13 comments:

Big Brother said...

Pure idiocy.

Anonymous said...

That's a myth. No one likes both cats and dogs. Dog lovers have more evolved brains. Cat lovers are "simple" people that are lulled by purring.

Anonymous said...

Ha ha. Funny idea but I have to wonder in this no-fun nanny state that NYC has become, are the powers that be actually going to let such a business operate? Cats and foodservice, in the same place? Egads--my monocle just dropped into my brandy snifter.

Anonymous said...

Ugh, Kittykind sucks ass! I adopted a cat from them and that they claimed had a clean bill of health when he actually had an upper respiratory infection and conjunctivitus. If you actually want a cat, go to the Humane Society.

Anonymous said...

To the poster complaining about Kitty Kind, it is common for cats to come home after being in shelters and shows signs of respiratory infections and eye infections, too, after they have been home a few days. It's pretty much impossible to keep them from transmitting these viruses to each other when there are so many of them in close quarters. I adopted my cat from a shelter, and she developed a respiratory infection days later. The virus was lingering, apparently. All this to say, I wouldn't slam any shelter for that. And it hardly makes an animal unadoptable if they have a virus.

Makeout said...

just waitng for "The spray heard 'round the web". Yuck.

Anonymous said...

But tell me more about their foam artists!

Anonymous said...

You can come to my apt and chill with my kitty, I'll make tea. $2 bucks an hour!

Scuba Diva said...

I wish these people luck, although I was king of rooting for Ollie's Place on 9th street to open a cat café first. Unfortunately, it's a delicate balancing act to run a business which has both food and cats.

My cat Tripod came from KittyKind, and I found after I took him for his first vet visit that he had the coronavirus that causes FIP. (Not FIV, fortunately, although FIP—feline infectious peritonitis—can be as tragic and fatal as FIV.)

He had only been vaccinated with a 3-in-1 by a volunteer because he had been rescued as a kitten from a cat colony in Williamsburg.) It's nearly impossible to screen for this, especially with a young kitten, so I absolutely can't blame anyone.

DrGecko said...

Are the cats edible? I'm asking for a friend.

Eden Bee said...

Extra $5 fee to pet a cat that is grumpy.

Anonymous said...

I wish them success in this. An excellent cause. It seems hard to imagine that they can make the undoubtedly high rents with such a business model, but I do hope it works out. A great cause. May all the cats find happy homes!

Urno Talbot said...

there is always the stray human who will want to eat a cat, so keep a look out.