London's Fox Cafe is the latest pop-up shop concept

last updated 15 July 2022

Hipsters, eh? First there were the beards. Then the glasses. Next came Shoreditch's pop-up shops and cereal cafés. Whatever next?!

Well, a fox café, as it happens. Yes, that's right. A pop-up café is coming to east London where you can cuddle cute foxes while you're having a cup of tea.

We've heard of animal cafés before, but cat cafés and owl hang-outs are so 2014. Foxes are the next big thing.

Whether you think they're furry balls of cuteness or bitey, urban creatures (the FOXES, not the hipsters) may depend a lot on what you've heard about foxes – and the organisers of this pop-up event hope to change perceptions of the urban fox for the better.

A fox café is coming to East London: copyright Peter Trimming and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

The pop-up café will run for three weeks from Monday 25th May (the location is still being finalised) and there's a ballot for tickets to the event. They've really nailed the whole fox theme too. There'll be cute (tame) foxes that you can "interact with under the supervision of a trained handler", Fox's biscuits, Fox's Glacier Mints and hot drinks.

And the little foxes won't come to any harm in the café. "The foxes' welfare is our number one priority. We are sourcing locations that will have more than one room so that the foxes are not exposed to a large amount of noise or people." Phew.

Well at Housetohome we're an animal-loving team, so news of the Fox Café was met with squeals of delight and we're already thinking about popping over to see them.

It's got us thinking about how much we love foxes in homeware design, too. There are plenty of ways that you can bring fox designs into your home long before the London café opens its doors...