About – PAWS CAFE

Paws Cafe opened in January 2019 as Shropshire’s first Cat Cafe. The concept is very different to your normal cafe or coffee shop. We have 11 resident cats inside, here you pay for your time and not your drinks. During your stay non alcoholic drinks are included (subject to time stayed). It’s certainly a unique experience and with over 200,000 visitors since we opened, it’s hugely popular.

The first cat cafe opened in Taiwan called Cat Flower Garden in 1998. In 2005 Japan opened it’s first cat cafe in Tokyo and since then there are almost 150 cat cafe’s in Japan, with 58 of these in Tokyo! Cat cafe’s quickly spread across the world as this amazing idea took off with international cat lovers.

Paws Cafe – Owners Katie and James started working on the cafe in July 2018 after finishing their previous careers. Katie, a Teacher and James a Production Engineer. Katie took James to another cat cafe in the UK and he loved the chilled out and calm environment, being a mad cat fan he wanted to start his own cat cafe!

					  Well that was fun, and you do have to like cats to go here.

The cats are friendly, the coffee good and the cakes very tasty.				
MidWalesGraham
2/13/2022 

					  Lovely staff. 

Very cosy inside - sofas for humans and plenty of beds, cat trees, and cat toys for the cats.

Delicious cakes. 

Lovely coffee - even have... read more different milk options which is great. 

Lovely cats. My personal favourite cat is Darwin the Maine Coone who is very majestic and fluffy. Obviously you aren’t going to get friendly with all the cats the very first time you go but I’ve been a few times now and they get more friendly with me the more I go. 

Also, they say to book… so book. Very unfair to leave a bad review because you didn’t bother booking resulting in you not being allowed in even though they are very clear about that.

If you like cats, cake, and coffee, or even just cats, I definitely recommend this place.				
Chesca B
5/21/2023 

					  Where to start, we have become "regulars" while we don't attend on a weekly basis we do try to get to the cafe once a month, Paws Cafe offers a... read more unique experience where we are able to hang out with a vaierty of cats that we can't have at home, it is a friendly, cosy and welcoming enviroment. 

The staff are lovely, they go above and beyond to make sure you are made to feel welcome and know everything about the cats, the cafe is super clean, all the cats are loved and healthy, they have a little ramp where they can go up to the cat flat if they want a break from people. 

One thing I would say, if you want to engage with the cats rather than watch them go about their business, go in the mornings, lunch time is generally nap time for the cats and they are less "active" while this isn't fact it is what we have noticed after going a few times. 

Oh by the way, if you order Carrot Cake, be warned, the cats LOVE IT 

You shouldn't have favourites but Darwin is ours.				
b0nza0
2/26/2023