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'''Cosplay cafes''' are tea shops or small restaurants where the waitstaff's costumes (and frequently the decor and food) are themed around a scenario or fantasy. They typically offer cold and hot tea and coffee drinks, fancy desserts and light meals, often highly decorated and "cutesy", served with [[Fan Service With a Smile]].

For the more "adult" version, see [[Host Club|Hostess Club / Host Club]]. Frequently uses [[French Maid Outfit]]. Compare [[Fan Service With a Smile]]. If a couple goes to one together, the menu is extremely likely to include a [[Date Crepe]] and perhaps some [[Sweetheart Sipping]].

* ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'': A Maid Cafe shows up in chapter 15.

* ''[[Beelzebub (Manga)|Beelzebub]]'': A Maid Cafe appears during the [[Serious Business|volleyball arc]].

* ''[[Bodacious Space Pirates (Light Novel)|Bodacious Space Pirates]]'': Marika Kato and her best friend work at a Maid Cafe.

* ''[[Excel Saga (Manga)|Excel Saga]]'': "Teriha" (actually an amnesiac Excel) wants to repay Dr. Shiouji for letting her stay at his lab. So her friend Umi, who is a [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]], gets her a job at a maid cafe.

* ''[[Hana Kimi (Manga)|Hana Kimi]]'': In the Japanese [[Live Action TV]] adaptation, the students decide to have a [[Maid Cafe]] for a school event. [[Wholesome Crossdresser|With all the guys dressing up in maid costumes]] to gain more female customers.

* ''[[Genshiken (Manga)|Genshiken]]'': In an omake short in the manga, Sasahara and Oguie go on an "otaku date", in which they visit a Maid Cafe. Ogiue comments that it is a surprisingly normal cafe, and Sasahara makes a comment to the effect of "From media coverage, you'd think it was like a hostess club".

* ''[[Kaichou wa Maid Sama (Manga)|Kaichou wa Maid Sama]]'': The heroine works in a maid cafe, and her coworkers are significant secondary characters. A rival butler cafe appears in Volume 5.

* ''[[K-On! (Manga)|K-On!]]'': Ritsu proposes a [[Maid Cafe]] for their first year festival, as Mio is really suited to the look. "The adorable power of cute compels you!"

* ''[[Lucky Star]]'': The cafe that Konata and Patty work at, where they are respectively dressed like Haruhi and Mikuru from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''.

* ''[[Omamori Himari (Manga)|Omamori Himari]]'': Lizbet is a full-time maid in a Maid Cafe (as she is the spirit of the owner's antique teacup), and Himari works there part-time - as a ''[[Catgirl]]'' maid (the customers think that she's cosplaying).

* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'': The "''Tanks for the Memories!''" episode of the anime sees the gang helping out at a [[Maid Cafe]] because the joint was temporarily understaffed (Brock was training one of the maids working there). This results in Dawn, [[Dragged Into Drag|Ash]] ([[Running Gag|again!]]) and even some of their mons dressing up in [[Meido]] outfits.

* ''[[Saki (Manga)|Saki]]'': Mako's family owns a Maid Cafe. Naturally, some of the other characters end up helping as waitresses.

* ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeJAHff9UlA Tsundere Cafe], where the waitresses are [[Tsundere|Tsunderes]], of course! (Since the manga was written, this has been [[Defictionalization|defictionalized]].)

* ''[[Sket Dance (Manga)|Sket Dance]]'': Himeko's class does a [[Maid Cafe]] for their [[School Festival]].

* ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru (Manga)|Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'': The main character gets a job in a maid cafe, slice-of-life and mystery-solving ensues.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': A Maid Cafe shows up during the first post-[[Time Skip]] episode; interestingly enough, all the waitresses were girls who, in the first episode, [[Laser-Guided Karma|scoffed at and teased poor Simon]].

* ''[[Usotsuki Lily (Manga)|Usotsuki Lily]]'': The students do two crossdressing cafes during a school festival, with the girls as butlers and the boys as girls respectively.

* ''[[Welcome to The NHK (Anime)|Welcome to The NHK]]'': In the otaku episode, the main characters visit a Maid Cafe.

* ''[[Xxx HO Li C (Anime)|xxxHOLiC]]'': [[CLAMP]] couldn't pass up the opportunity to provide [[Fan Service]] and [[Fetish Fuel]], so in the ''xxxHOLiC'' / ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' [[Crossover]] [[High School AU]] (go figure), the students set up a Maid Cafe for the school festival. Cue a heap of [[Dojinshi]] with ''the guys'' [[Cross Dresser|dressing up]] [[Yaoi Fangirl|as maids instead]]. There is also ''official'' artwork of Kurogane and Fai [http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7536/kuroganeundfaylolfayfre.jpg dressed as maids]. Fai is ''beaming''.

* ''[[Yubisaki Milk Tea (Manga)|Yubisaki Milk Tea]]'': Minamo decide that the class should do a crossdress cafe for the school festival with Wataru and Kodama as the maids. During the festival Yoshinori remarks that Kodama looks okay, but that Wataru is too tall to pass for a girl. But Minamo answer that the point is to make people laugh, unlike when Yoshinori is crossdressing as Yuki. Yoshinori ends up joining them as a very good looking girl (though not as Yuki). The result is that the cafe suddenly get a lot more customers due to the cute "girl".

* ''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]]'': The Main Character's ever-original classmates decide to do a [[Maid Cafe]] for their [[School Festival]]. [[The Chick|Yukari]] dreads it from the depths of her spirit because [[All Men Are Perverts|it means wearing a maid uniform]]; [[Idiot Hero|Junpei]] and the rest of the male schoolmates look forward to [[Fetish Fuel|this cherished event]]. Alas, a typhoon rips through Iwatodai and the [[School Festival]] is canceled, to the endless grief of said schoolmates (and the Main Character is also asked if he mourns the loss.)

* ''[[Megatokyo (Webcomic)|Megatokyo]]'': Kimiko used to work at a Maid Cafe. She presumably quit after the swarms of otaku made her go temporarily insane.