The Ultimate Dog Friendly Cafe/Restaurant/Pub/Hotel Thread

[MmeLindor.]

Could we all add recommendations of good places to go where dogs are welcome. Fed up sitting outside in the freezing cold beer garden, clutching tea cup to keep warm.

I will start with the Ship Inn in Broughty Ferry near Dundee. You cannot take the dog into the restaurant but you can eat in the bar area where dogs are welcome. INCREDIBLE food.

And my favourite B&B in Scotland Aird Hill in Badachro.

I meant fields for off lead runs...

Portpatrick, Scotland - the Crown Hotel, fab seafood on bar menu, overlooks harbour. Waterbowls inside & out.

Stayed at Mull of Galloway lighthouse cottages. All 3 occupied with families with dog & lighthouse staff brought own dog to work.

Our lab enjoyed a ride on the North York Moors railway.

Have a look at the Good Beer Guide (published by CAMRA each year if you're not familiar) as the entries will often say if dogs are welcome.

E.g. The entry for The Fox and Hounds Inn, Cattistock, Dorset says "dogs are very welcome - they can even enjoy their own bar snack" .

The Crooked Billet in Wimbledon.

There are others in Wimbledon/Putney too - I'll have to get my thinking cap on and try to remember them.

The Telelgraph, on the edges of Wimbledon/Putney commons is another good one.

Toughdecisions - Our collies have also enjoyed the North Yorks Moors Railway as well as the steam boat on Coniston Water.

There is a lovely restaurant in Ambleside (whose name predictably escapes me ) which allows dogs in the conservatory. Our collies love helping out with their hoovering .

The New Inn in Widdecome (Dartmoor) used to allow dogs in the restaurant, but we haven't been there for a few years so don't know if that is still the case.

The Sun Inn Kirkby Lonsdale

Dh and I went for our 10th wedding anniversary weekend (with the dog). Fabulous food. Beyond fabulous beer. Lovely rooms. Dog made welcome at all times, sat under our table at meal times.

Highly highly recommended and we will almost certainly go back.

I second the Sun Inn for anything - food, drink, dogginess, location. It's wonderful - I grew up just down the road and will be popping in for lunch when I go home next week

Dh almost wept with joy when they brought out little taster glasses of all the different beers for him to try.

Don't be too I haven't been back to the UK for four years so it's not like I get to go there all that often...
I'll thik of you when I stretch out in front of one of those fireplaces though :)

with a little bit of

The Castle Lulworth. biscuits on the bar, dogs inside, good beer, lovely.

even have their own dog page

So... more pubs than you can throw a stick at (and the dog fail to come back with it as he's gone inside for biccies)

What about the more genteel world of teashops/cafes?

Excellent place for dog/child combos is Williamson Park in Lancaster - dogs allowed in the teashop. (They aren't allowed in the butterfly house/minibeast section)

Grimma am just imagining the chaos if they were allowed in the butterfly section... But yes I agree Williamson's Park is great for dogs. I have even seen them with their owners in the audience in the evening plays, though that was many years ago, things may have changed.

Great suggestions. Keep them coming.

Teashops and cafes?

Hotels and B&Bs?

Just remembered this place, we stayed there this summer. It was lovely.

Tigh a ghlinne near Fort William.

Hotels - well, if you want a holiday in the Exmoor area with a child,a dog and a granny, the Northfield in Minehead is very accommodating. The sort of place where fussy child can eat beans on toast followed by selection from cheeseboard. Has a pool. They don't like dogs being 'exercised' in their gardens, reasonably enough (ie they are welcome to run about on lead but make sure they've shat first) but you're very near the path up North Hill and the seafront.

For our 10th wedding anniversary last year we stayed at Tarr Steps in Exmoor www.tarrfarm.co.uk/

Lovely food, walks, drinks etc and very friendly. They also welcomed dogs and there were always several dogs under the tables in the dining room (certainly at breakfast anyway) and they can stay in your room (although not unattended unless crated I think).

"Dogs are welcome in some of the rooms and we can provide feed bowls, blankets and towels for canine guests."

At the time we didn't have pup but she would have loved it there!

We tend to put our dog in the car rather than leave him unattended in the room while we're dining as its his own territory and he's happier there (we don't take him on holiday in summer ever)

Another holiday idea with a dog is boats on canals/broads - Hoseasons allows dogs on some of its boats. (Choose the design carefully though)