About
A city guide for people who bring the dog.
Bardog is a city guide to dog-friendly bars, cafes, restaurants, dog parks and pet shops, with notes and pop-ins from people who brought the dog. The difference between tolerated and welcome shows up the moment you walk in the door.
Why Bardog
Because “dog-friendly” was doing a lot of work.
Every review site has a “dog-friendly” filter. Most of them mean something different by it. One place means the sidewalk; another means the patio when it’s warm; a third means a single table tucked near the door if nobody else is eating.
So we kept ending up at spots with a hopeful dog and a quiet “sorry, outside only”. Bardog exists because we wanted one list written by people who actually bring their dog, with the details that decide whether it’s worth the walk.
How it works
Three steps, on repeat.
01
Visit a place with your dog.
The test is whether you actually felt welcome, not whether a policy page says you should.
02
Leave an honest note.
A sentence or two, plus the tags that matter: indoor allowed, water bowl, patio heaters, no aggressive dogs.
03
Help the next dog owner.
Other people read your notes before they head out. You read theirs. That's the whole thing.
How we keep it honest
The rules of the guide.
No paid placements.
Nobody pays to appear, move up, or stay on. What a page says comes from the listing, and from the notes and pop-ins of people who went.
Notes from people who went.
You attach a dog to your note so it's clear these are firsthand visits, not drive-by takes.
Tags over star theater.
Stars are easy to game. Specific tags, like inside and out, water bowl or all sizes welcome, are harder to fake and more useful.
Built to be corrected.
Venues change. If a spot stops welcoming dogs, the next note says so and the tags follow.
“dogs can't stay inside, but there's treats and they're more than welcome to sit outside in the sun!”