Nine Lives Cafe, the Granby cat adoption café at 335 Salmon Brook St., is open and taking reservations for its cat lounge. Owner Holly Kundrata and her husband Mike spent most of a year getting here: they signed the lease on the 1,450-square-foot space in October, renovated daily through the winter and spring, and waited out permits on both the food service and animal-handling sides. The café's website is now live with lounge pricing and hours — Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with $15 one-hour café visits, $25 cat yoga sessions, $10 adoption consultations, and $300 private bookings.
The concept pairs coffee and pastries with cats from two nearby rescues, Cat Nap Village and the Enfield Community Cat Project, with up to 20 cats available for adoption at a time. Children 8 and up can enter the cat lounge, with adult supervision rules posted on the booking page.
This is what a niche business looks like when it earns its opening the slow way — a year of buildout, dual permitting (food and animals), and a rescue partnership that supplies both inventory and mission. The revenue model is worth noting for anyone considering an experience-based business: the café is charging for time slots, not just products, which smooths revenue and makes demand predictable before the doors even open. Reservation-first is a playbook more Valley storefronts could steal.