Baristocats Cat Cafe — Restaurant in Jefferson City

Full Disclosure: I volunteer with the group that runs this cafe, however I have also gone on days when I don't volunteer. I am not a paid employee of this group. This location in genuinely one of my favorite places to be.

Okay, I think the coffee and snack prices ($3 coffee/cocoa/tea, $1 snacks as of this date) are very reasonable. They also added soda and bottled water per patron requests. I feel like the cafe itself is beautiful. The main cat lounge room has an amazing mural in it. There are chairs, but usually people are sitting on the plush rugs to play with the cats. There are also tables, cat trees, ect. There is free wifi for patrons. I think people usually have the best experience when they reserve ahead of time, sometimes you have a short wait if you haven't made a reservation but I understand why they do it. When the lounge is busy, there are lots of people playing with the cats, so if you have a reservation you get priority entrance. I love that this "business" is actually run by a non profit, everyone there is a volunteer and all funds raised go to either the cafe's bills or vet bills for the animals (who are all available for adoption, by the way.) They have also been adding events like Kitten Yoga, which sound really fun. Last weekend they had kitten trivia where you could win free lounge time. I've seen a lot of families come through with kids, the kids seem to be enjoying themselves. I know my own...

The way I cannot stress enough that this is not a cafe.... at all. They pretty much have iced or hot coffee that you can add a few flavors/sweeteners/creamers to and a few prepackaged snacks. Then you also have to pay I believe $15/30 minutes to be in the room where the cats are (you can bring your drink/snack into the room with you). Speaking of the room where the cats are, it was stuffy and smelt very very strongly of litter. While I understand a room full of cats isn't likely to smell nice it was overwhelming. I love the idea behind what they are trying to do, the execution is just rough. If you really really love cats it would probably be worth a trip, but you could also just volunteer or go visit a no-kill animal shelter/rescue and have the same experience for free. Over all the animals seemed fairly well cared for, but this is definitely more "please adopt a cat, by the way we also have snacks" and not an...

Went there cuz my daughter went to as a wedding present to her, it was awful once you get into the cat area, the ammonia smell was so bad that I couldn't even stay back there for about 30 minutes we paid for. At this point I can't believe they allowed to cats in that condition. And charging somebody going to that environment is wrong. The guy out front was awesome and he was extremely sweet and kind and talk to us about the cats. The woman inside even though we were told we're going to hold a cat we couldn't pick it up they would pick him up at a handle to us and send them in our lap every cat we asked to hold she said oh it doesn't like to be old and she would not move off her seat. So we paid the full price but nothing was what we were told it was going to be and the smell made it something we would...