{"id":456345,"date":"2026-09-07T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456345\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:22:17","slug":"cat-cafes-lounges-in-greater-los-angeles-where-you-can-cuddle-kitties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456345\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat cafes, lounges in Greater Los Angeles where you can cuddle kitties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This spot, just a short stroll from the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/lbma.org\/visit\/lbma-downtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown<\/a>, doesn\u2019t bother trying to graft cafe culture onto the cat-visiting experience, choosing instead to double-down on a whimsical cat motif that includes kitty murals and paw prints splashed across interior and exterior walls. (If you  need a caffeine fix, there is a Starbucks a few blocks away.) The central element inside the space is a wooden tree-like structure where you\u2019ll find many of the 50-plus cats provided by rescue partner <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachfelines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Felines<\/a> lounging or climbing, while others roam about, pouncing on toys, wiggling through fabric tunnels or prancing on a cat exercise wheel the size of a truck tire.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 25 people can kick it with the kitties at any one time, and the 50-minute sessions can be booked online. Other offerings include: Cats &amp; Mats yoga (offered one Friday evening a month), Crochet With Cats (one Sunday afternoon a month) and cat-accompanied sound baths. (An employee I chatted with said the crochet class, with its preponderance of dangling yarn, is particularly popular with the cats.)<\/p>\n<p>Price: $19.99 for 50-minute sessions, which start at the top of the hour<\/p>\n<p>Hours: Monday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (reservations end 1 hour before closing)<\/p>\n<p>Pro tip: A shorter and less expensive option \u2014 $10 for 20 minutes \u2014 is available on a walk-in basis only at the top of the hour, depending on capacity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This spot, just a short stroll from the Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown, doesn\u2019t bother trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[180091,180094,180092,9747,3747,10463,68167,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,80126,41773,1410,1164,17565,180093,5380],"class_list":["post-456345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cat-cafe","tag-cat-themed-art-show","tag-crochet-lesson","tag-decade","tag-door","tag-greater-los-angeles","tag-kitty","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lounge","tag-matcha","tag-place","tag-shoe","tag-spot","tag-such-thing","tag-well-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}