The waiting list is extensive, patrons are required to pay in advance when booking, there are rules. One could be forgiven for thinking, “for the love of Caesar! Why bother?” Why? Because it is one of the most wonderful places imaginable.
The rules exist for one uncomplicated purpose: Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium on Bethnal Green Road is the home of sixteen cats; patrons are simply the cats’ invited guests. And the rules are not overbearing: do not wake any cat who is asleep, do not feed human food to any cat, do not pick up any cat.
Some of the cats napped for the duration of our 90-minute stay, some meandered about, some came for cuddles and some exhibited consummately captivating catness.
I could not think of more delightful way to pass a Saturday morning…
Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium on Bethnal Green Road…
Clever puns: “catte!”
The felid “Where’s Waldo?”
Part deux…
Part trois…
This clever device prevents any one cat from hoovering up the food before the others can reach it…
A glorious tangle of cat arms and legs…
Lizzie
Lizzie performing on her wheel…
Dorian (the *non* Grey) cozying up to Geth…
“Geth! Pay attention to me!”
Geth going home on the Underground in his cat ears…
To finish: Cyril’s lovely tail…
A Classicist Writes... 
We need one in NYC 😻
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A BOOK of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
…and sixteen cats at Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium!
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What a great place–I’m jealous! But can you make the cat pictures bigger? I think you can enlarge them because I can’t see the CATS!
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That is awesome! Though I don’t think I could resist picking up a cat. I feel like I would get booted from there really quickly.
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