Canterbury Tails Cat Cafe

12/08/2024

We hope everyone is staying as cool as possible in this heatwave! 🌞 Despite our multiple windows & 2 aircon units, the cats (& team!) are definitely feeling the heat today, so not doing much else than enjoying a good snooze in cool spots (the cats -not the team - though we wish we were!) 🫣😹
Mocha is making no secret she is too fabulous to be in this heat, and scroll for a little Figgy peek during his vet visit this morning for his now regular heart scan checkups. It’s all good news for Figg, he has no clots or fluid buildup and his prescription looks to be doing it’s job job and has been refilled. Fingers crossed for more good news at his next one in 3 months time! ❤️

07/08/2024

Please stay safe everyone, and avoid central Canterbury this evening.
We have been made aware bus services will stop at 3.30pm today.

23/07/2024

APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED! - please do not send an email it will not be considered. We have received a truly overwhelming amount of applications (over 70!) in the last 24 hours and thank you all so much for your eagerness to be a part of our team. Pip will be working through applicants tonight and emails will be sent by the end of the week, if not before. 👀

EDIT: Applications will be CLOSING 3PM TODAY 24/7/24 - we have received a truly overwhelming response already and have to cap it so Pip isn’t reading CVs until September! (Even with Chai’s help) 🫣
Any application sent after the cutoff will not be considered, and Pip will be working on getting replies out to everyone by the end of the week.
THANK YOU 😻

😻WE ARE HIRING! 📑
Summer is upon us and we are looking for some additional wonderful people to join our team! We are particularly looking for those with kitchen and/or barista experience, who would be available to start asap and work flexible shifts across the summer (including weekends). The positions have high potential to continue through September and beyond, as we have some current team embers leaving us come September.
✅You must be friendly and personable, eager to learn, able to work in a fast paced environment, able to be on your feet all day and work across multiple floors, and work well in a team.
✅Other traits we would prioritise from applicants are previous experience working with animals, multilingual skills, previous hospitality experience, and Canterbury local.
💚Please send your cover letter and CV to Pip at [email protected], with subject line “JOB APPLICATION”, including your availability and reference details.
❕Disclaimer - this is a physically demanding job for both kitchen and front of house roles, where maintaining a high level of cleanliness and organisation across both areas is key.
ps - yes, Chai here will be assisting in the application selection process 😹

21/07/2024

FIGGY IS FIVE 🎉🎉🎉 Fabulous fan-favourite Mr.Figgs recently celebrated his birthday in style - snoozing and upholding his position of head stair guardian, with a sprinkling of assistant manager in his formal attire ✨
Also this month the cat crew had their annual vaccinations and health checks- when unfortunately we discovered Figgy has a heart condition which requires him to be on daily medication to help manage. It doesn’t negatively affect his day to day so after extensive talks with the vets nothing will be changing for Figgs except his daily tablet and monthly heart scans, to minimise additional stress. His condition is not curable and is fairly serious and his future unpredictable, but he currently is not in distress and we will all of course continue providing him a safe, loving forever home with all the cuddles he could want ❤️

09/06/2024

Happy Canterbury Pride weekend everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 who’s as obsessed with Clawdia’s special rainbow fairy super extra pride dress as we are? 😻 Although she spent most of Saturday sleeping, she still looked absolutely fetch for the day 💅 We hope you all had a fabulous time, whether you were out celebrating or elsewhere (or even sleeping like Clawd!) - remember pride is for every day, not just a weekend or a month! 🎉
Despite the disappointing last minute cancellation of Canterbury Pride’s planned 2-day festivities, some of our team still managed to have time off to enjoy the parade and the sun with friends and loved ones 🌞 our decor is staying through June, but we also like to keep the rainbows and welcoming inclusivity present all year round - Canterbury Tails is proud to always be a safe space for all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩶🤍🤎

06/06/2024

02/06/2024

New mixtape dropping Monday 🔥 💿 📼 😹
The Boiz™️ in formation ready for the performance of their lives for all our lucky guests this sunny Sunday 🌞 (they will sleep on them)

31/05/2024

WE ARE ONE 🎉😻🥳 The 29th marked the cafe’s first birthday, and with it also being half term and the bank holiday Monday, what a wonderful week it has been just absolutely full of amazing guests sharing this special week with us all! 💚 It’s been a perfect start to our “summer of love” - launching our seasonal summer menu & kicking off pride early with the celebrations of appreciation of all 🌈✌🏼 We want to thank every single one of you guys - those who have joined us this week, those who have in the past, those who plan to one day, those who have just discovered us and those who have been following us from the very beginning - we would never have got where we are without every single one of you so THANK YOU 🤩 The cats have been absolutely loving the festivities and all the extra cuddles from us being so busy ( and stealing people gift bags too!) 😹 The 28th was a Tuesday so we were closed as usual but spent the day as a (nearly whole!) team enjoying a day of treats together, and we’re also treated to a STUNNING on-theme sage green lemon drizzle cake baked especially for us by regular - which was delicious as always 🎂 We also reached our landmark goal of 365 Google reviews by our 1st year, and absolutely love reading all your wonderful reviews of times spent with us 🥰 we are so excited for the year ahead and can’t wait to see where it will take us 💪🏼✌🏼💚

04/05/2024

May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day AND (more importantly ofc) HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our resident Yoggy Yoda who turned 5 today! 🥳 We still have a couple of other birthdays from this week to catch up on (and another tomorrow!) as it’s very much cat crew birthday central right now 🎉 Enjoy these pics of our lil Yoghurt being the silly sweet goof he is, and make sure to scroll to the end for one of his famous Yoggy Sploots 😻😹

16/04/2024

Happy 1st Birthday to our resident champion of the chunky-boi title: Custard! Our little Crust has spent the day getting some extra special cuddle treatment from owners Pip & Vik, and even got some extra snackies too. Enjoy this gallery of our fave Crustardo shots gathered from our team, showing our (M)custard in all his glory 👑

09/04/2024

Happy Spring (& Easter!) to everyone, AND happy birthday to Mac and Garibaldie - who both celebrated their special days recently! 🎁 So many exciting things are happening, the weather is changing, blossoms and bulbs are blooming, and we are well and truly busy welcoming so many wonderful guests to the cafe this Easter Half Term (so please excuse our lack of posts!) 🌷 Mac has celebrated his 3rd birthday on the 31st March, and “Uncle” Garibaldie turned 6! If you’re booked to see us this remaining half term week, make sure to give them some extra special belated birthday pets! (Along with Cheez, who turned 1 and had his birthday post just the other day!) 🧀

23/03/2024

Our gorgeous Oolong has turned 4! 🎉She celebrated her birthday earlier in the week and has shared her birthday week with Nettie, plus two members of our team - Emma and Amelie! 🎁 Enjoy these pics of our Lady Long being both gorgeous and goofy, and check our story too for a loud Ooie shout! Where Ooie is completely deaf, she has basically zero volume control, so when she does get vocal she can be very noisy 😹

20/03/2024

🐸 Happy national frog day AND first day of spring! 🌸 The cat crew are feeling the season today and showing off some excellent spring wardrobe attire 👒 How are you celebrating this wonderful fresh and froggy day? 🌈

12/03/2024

What a wonderful secret feature from cats.com! 💖😻

07/03/2024

Our Little Lady Marmalady is now 3!! 🎉 She celebrated her birthday in style (snoozing away) on Tuesday, got extra treats & chef Bobby even came in on his day off to visit her especially (don’t tell the others - but she’s his favourite!) 🤫) Our gorgeous Miss Marm is right up there with Mocha as one of our RBF queens, but if you swipe through you’ll see some super special silly Marm pics - and some baby photos too! 😻

02/03/2024

Miss Mocha is now 8! 🎉 Our queen celebrated her birthday this past week, and her reign over the rest of the cat crew (and our hearts) remains strong as ever 👑 Enjoy these pics of our blue eyed beauty in all her (sometime lazy) glory, and if that’s not enough - you may even be able to snag the last few slots for this weekend to come give this matriarch a cuddle in person 🥰
ps - this is the last weekend you’ll be able to enjoy our valentine special seasonal menu 💝 Our spring & Easter menu launches next week! 👀 🌼🐣🌱🐰🌸

24/02/2024

Guess who both had birthdays this week?! 🎉 Mayo and Ness actually share their birthday - the only members of our cat crew who do 👯‍♀️ but are separated by a year - Ness just turned 2 while Mayo is a big boy now at 3 👀 Here are both of them, looking particularly gorgeous as ever (even when Ness decides to be cheeky and hop in the litter tray after cleaning for a nap before it’s even placed back down 😹)
We are sorry we haven’t been posting much but February has been a total blur for us! We have been busier than ever before, and with special days like Pancake Day, Valentines, and the February half term we have all been working our socks off, welcoming hundreds of wonderful guests for kitty cuddles, coffee, cake, and more!
Remember to keep an eye on our stories for daily cat crew content too though, so you can always get a quick fix 😻

31/01/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEE! 🥳🎉 From 2 months to 2 years, our forever-babygirl grumpy faced queen 💝 Many of you may not know, but Fee was the runt of her litter, always incredibly small, & required intensive medical care & treatment not long at all after being rehomed to us. She pulled through, & quickly became best friends with Ness, & has spent the last 2 years with us being doted. On every day for the baby-girl she is 😻
Head over this post on our instagram to also see the videos we couldn’t upload here!

17/01/2024

Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was National Do Nothing Day, and the cat crew had a wonderful snoozy Tuesday - although let’s be honest, they’re masters of the nap every day! Here are a couple of our favourite snooze-faces from the last few days! (Swipe ➡️ for some very flattering zooms 😹)

13/01/2024

Happy Saturday from Mac & his current favourite little festive friend! We know the season has passed, but can’t bear to split these buddies up 🥺
Swipe ➡️ for an impressive balancing act they have been working on 😹
It’s a typical busy weekend for us, we are fully booked for all sessions today until 4pm & afternoon sessions do tend to fill with walk-ins, so we still recommend booking if you are able! We do have a few spots left for tomorrow you can still snag on our website if you want to come so hi to these snuggle buddies (& 24 other cuties!) 😻
BOOK HERE -> https://canterburytails.co.uk/pages/booking

01/01/2024

Happy New Year from the human members of Canterbury Tails! ✨ Here’s (nearly all of!) us at our team Xmas meal mid-December, plus some honorary crew members 🥳 2023 has been so fantastic for us all, we are forever grateful for all our wonderful guests 🥰 We have so many fun new plans for the year ahead to keep building bigger, better, more cat-tastic and can’t wait to bring you all along on our journey of sustainable, ethical, green focused coffee, cake & kitty love with us! 💚 Here’s to 2024! 🎉

22/12/2023

Happy pre-Xmas week everyone! 🎄
We have been so busy welcoming so many wonderful festive guests this week, & are remaining open all the way until 4pm on Christmas Eve - ready to welcome anyone who needs a cosy & relaxing respite from last minute shopping! 🛍️
We are closed the 25th & 26th to spend time with family & for owners Pip & Vik to have our own little family Christmas here with the cats 🥰
We open with usual hours from Wednesday 27th until New Years & will be closed the 1st & 2nd of Jan. ✨

19/12/2023

Heres our angelic Mayo (& Bao!) having some fun exploring a very festive coloured guests chair the other day. 🎄
Schools have broken up for the season, we had our team Xmas meal last night, & we are ready to welcome all our festive guests over the coming few weeks ✨A quick reminder - we are accessible & able to welcome transferring & non-transferring guests, & aids of any size - with our sloped entrance, large waiting area, extra wide custom entrance doorways, disabled accessible WC, & our furniture is light and moveable for seating accommodations when needed. 💚
We do recommend booking in advance if planning to visit us this festive season, as spaces are already filling up! Online we do have a section to let us know any requirements eg downstairs seating, allergies, or anything else, prior to placing your booking. ☕️
BOOK HERE -> canterburytails.co.uk/pages/booking

17/12/2023

We have a little Xmas post box! 🎁Thank you so much for your kindness & generosity to all who have already dropped off cards & gifts for the cats (& even team like Grace has here!) ✨ We have them proudly on display on our tree card display in the window 🎄
We have introduced a little post box in our gift shop/waiting area where you can pop your Xmas cards to the Canterbury Tails Crew if you’re in a bit of a rush! Anyone who drops in a card can also ask at our window for an Xmas card back from the whole cat crew and Canterbury Tails Team, let’s keep this festive cheer circular! 💖

17/12/2023

Happy Birthday to our resident seasonal fluff ball Fungus! 🎉 (better know as Guss) This cheeky boy is turning 4 today, & being spoilt with love & cuddles as usual 💝 if you’re visiting us today remember to wish Gussie a Happy Birthday, and enjoy his ridiculous winter fluff while it’s here ✨ (swipe to the end to see summer Guss - he looks like a whole different cat!)

16/12/2023

We had a very surprise package arrive! 💌 massive thank you to the super talented for these gorgeous prints of artworks she made during a visit a few weeks back, we absolutely adore them! Here’s Marsha, Ness & Yoggy enjoying their portraits, although we think it may be going to Ness’ head - swipe for some serious side-eye 👀
Pip (CTCC owner - hello!) has actually been a fan of Ambers work long before the cafe even opened, so to have an already loved local even just to visit, let alone send surprise prints of our very cats! Just an absolute dream 😻
Extra exciting - these aren’t the only members of our cat crew to have local artists create portraits - more info on that soooon ✨😻

16/12/2023

Good morning Canterbury!
POV - you are Custard, patiently waiting to welcome all our wonderful winter guests on this chilly Canterbury morning ❄️
We are already fully booked until 12 (& a few sessions later on) but we still have a couple last spaces available to grab during our afternoon sessions today. Take a break from your errands & give this chunky boy (& 24 others!) a cuddle in the warm with a coffee ✨
Book here -> CanterburyTails.co.uk/pages/booking