Crumbs & Whiskers' kickstarter campaign has raised over $35,000, has gotten all of the necessary permits from the D.C. government and, this just in, officially signed a lease for a Georgetown location. So Washington is definitely getting a cat café in the near future though it probably won't open until late summer. And until it does, I thought I'd share what I hope Crumbs & Whiskers will be like. And that's basically Meow Parlour. Meow Parlour is New York's first, adn to date only, cat café. Or perhaps I should say a space with cats, where you can bring coffee purchased at another location around the corner. Unlike Paris' cat cafe, Cafe des Chats (which actually is more of a ...
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Postcard from Paris: a Paws Café at Café des Chats
Paws Café... Pause café... get it? OK, that was a bad pun, but I couldn't help it. Just like I couldn't help visiting both of Paris' cat cafés during my last stay in the city. In my defense, one of them is just a few blocks away from my parents' apartment. When did rue Sedaine become so hip? The original Café des Chats, located in the haut Marais close to Beaubourg, opened back in the fall of 2013 and turned out to be so popular that a second location near Bastille was added. Margaux Gandelon, the young entrepreneuse who launched the "café chat" concept in Paris after a successful crowd-funding campaign, was directly inspired by the "neko" cafés in Japan. She describes her project as ...
