I Visited Brews & Mews Cat Cafe in Downtown Lenoir, NC
I went to Brews & Mews in downtown Lenoir for an iced coffee and some time in the cat room. I loved that the cats there are up for adoption too. ❤️ It got me wondering how a coffee shop with cats went from one place in Taiwan to hundreds of places across the U.S. Where did cat cafes start? The first widely recognized cat cafe opened in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998. It was called Cat Flower Garden, also known as Kitten Garden. Japan got its first cat cafe in Osaka in 2004 and the idea spread to Tokyo. If you lived in an apartment that didn’t allow pets, you could still spend part of your afternoon with a cat. The U.S. got its first taste in April 2014 when Purina hosted a cat cafe in New York City for four days. That October, Cat Town opened the country’s first permanent cat cafe in Oakland, California. It gave visitors a chance to get to know shelter cats outside a cage. The team especially wanted to help older and shy cats that tended to get overlooked. How many cat cafes are in ...