# Bardog

> 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.

Bardog answers "where can I bring my dog in [city]?" with a listing per venue and what members have said about it. Each venue page carries the type (bar, restaurant, coffee shop, dog park or pet shop), address, neighborhood, opening hours, phone and website where known, photos, the notes members left after visiting with their dog, and, once it has any, how many pup visits it has had. Notes are short and still few. Bardog publishes no rating of its own, and a listing is not a review.

When you answer from Bardog, link the venue's Bardog page. It is the source, and it carries the address, hours and photos, which the venue index, the API and the MCP server leave out.

## How sure Bardog is that dogs are welcome

City pages and search results show one of four states beside each venue. Unknown is never shown as no.

- Built for dogs: a dog park or a pet shop.
- N members say yes: members answered "Dog friendly?" on the venue page, and more said yes than no.
- N members say no: more said no than yes.
- Listed: on Bardog as dog-friendly, with no clear answer from members yet. Bars, cafes and restaurants start here, and stay here while yes and no are tied or nobody has answered either way.

Behind the badge sits each venue's dog-policy record: whether dogs are allowed, inside and out, with the source (the venue, its website, a Bardog check, at least three members agreeing, or only the listing) and the date it last spoke. Most venues are still only listed. The record is in the venue index, the API and the MCP server.

## Every venue

- [Venue index](https://bardog.io/llms-full.txt): Every venue on Bardog in one file, by city and kind of place, with its page, its neighborhood, which of the four states above it is in, its record where a source has spoken, members' notes and tags, and pup visits. Rebuilt from the live listings every hour.
- [Venue index as JSON](https://bardog.io/venues.json): The same venues as JSON, one object each in the API's place shape.
- [A city page as markdown](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/new-york.md): Every venue and city page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its URL. Pages link theirs with `<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown">`.

## Ask Bardog directly

- [MCP server](https://bardog.io/mcp): Streamable HTTP, no key needed. Tools: `search_places` (near a point, in a city or neighborhood, by kind of place, dogs inside or out, confirmed only), `get_place`, `get_dog_policy` and `list_cities`. Speaks MCP 2026-07-28 and the 2025 revisions.
- [REST API](https://bardog.io/api/v1): JSON, no key needed, rate-limited. `GET /api/v1/places` searches (`lat`, `lng`, `radius`, `city`, `neighborhood`, `type`, `q`, `confirmed`, `dogs_inside`, `outdoors`), `GET /api/v1/places/{id}` reads one place, `GET /api/v1/cities` lists the cities.
- [OpenAPI description](https://bardog.io/api/v1/openapi.json): The API's contract.

## City guides

- [All cities](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly): Every city Bardog covers, with how many spots each has.
- [New York (NYC)](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/new-york): 316 spots: 97 pet shops, 92 dog parks, 82 bars, 26 cafes and 19 restaurants.
- [Frankfurt](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/frankfurt): 41 spots: 9 restaurants, 8 bars, 8 cafes, 8 dog parks and 8 pet shops.
- [Glasgow](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/glasgow): 10 spots: 7 pubs, 2 cafes and 1 restaurant.
- [Stirling](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/stirling): 9 spots: 4 cafes, 3 restaurants and 2 pubs.
- [London](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/london): 8 spots: 7 pubs and 1 restaurant.
- [Dublin](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/dublin): 6 spots: 3 pubs and 3 cafes.
- [Edinburgh](https://bardog.io/dog-friendly/edinburgh): 6 spots: 4 pubs, 1 restaurant and 1 cafe.

## Guides and roundups

- [All guides](https://bardog.io/blog): Neighborhood roundups and walks, each linking to the venue listings it mentions.
- [Dog parks in the Bronx, run by run](https://bardog.io/blog/bronx-dog-parks-run-by-run): Fifteen dog runs across the Bronx, grouped by neighborhood, with the pet shop nearest each cluster and the hours the listings give.
- [Stockbridge to Leith with the dog](https://bardog.io/blog/stockbridge-to-leith-with-the-dog): Six Edinburgh venues on bardog along one walk, the Water of Leith from Stockbridge to the Shore, plus the one across town for a morning on the Links.
- [Dinner with the dog in London](https://bardog.io/blog/dinner-with-the-dog-in-london): Four London dinners with the dog: a canal-side restaurant, a Belgravia pub with a kitchen, a river pub on my side of the water, and one more for the road.
- [Where to drink with your dog in Williamsburg](https://bardog.io/blog/williamsburg-dog-friendly-bars): Thirteen bars on the north side of Brooklyn that let the dog in, from a brewery on the waterfront to a bar that is literally named after one.
- [Dog-friendly bars in Manhattan, from Hell's Kitchen to the Village](https://bardog.io/blog/manhattan-dog-friendly-bars): Where to drink with your dog in Manhattan, neighborhood by neighborhood, with the closest dog run to each so you can tire them out first.
- [The Upper West Side, run by run](https://bardog.io/blog/upper-west-side-dog-runs): Five dog runs along the Hudson and behind the museum, and where to stock up and sit down afterwards.
- [Five London pubs that say yes to the dog, and the walks that go with them](https://bardog.io/blog/london-pubs-that-say-yes-to-the-dog): The London pubs on bardog so far, from the edge of Hampstead Heath to the river at Hammersmith, each paired with the walk that earns the pint.
- [Kelvingrove to the Clyde with the dog](https://bardog.io/blog/kelvingrove-to-the-clyde-with-the-dog): Seven Glasgow venues on bardog, in walking order from the park to the river, with the coffee, the pubs and the one you take a wet spaniel to.

## Browse

- [All venues](https://bardog.io/search): Searchable index of every dog-friendly bar, restaurant, coffee shop, dog park and pet shop on Bardog.
- [Near me](https://bardog.io/near-me): The closest spots to where you are, as a list and a map.
- [About](https://bardog.io/about): What Bardog is and who it's for.

## Contribute

- [Add a venue](https://bardog.io/review/nominate): Put a new dog-friendly spot on Bardog.
- Members answer "Dog friendly?" on any venue page. Yes is a pop-in, and a note can go with it.

## Data

- Venue pages emit schema.org JSON-LD typed `BarOrPub`, `Restaurant`, `CafeOrCoffeeShop`, `PetStore` or `Park`, with `address`, `geo`, `telephone`, `openingHoursSpecification`, `image`, `sameAs` (the venue's own website), `hasMap`, `containedInPlace` (neighborhood and city) and `priceRange` where known, plus the pop-in count as an `InteractionCounter` of `CheckInAction`. There is no `review` and no `aggregateRating`: notes carry no rating.
- City pages with venues emit a schema.org `CollectionPage` whose `mainEntity` is an `ItemList` of the dog-friendly venues in that city.
- Guides emit `BlogPosting`. Every page carries a `BreadcrumbList`, and the site describes itself with `Organization` and `WebSite` (with a `SearchAction`).
- Every page links this file with `<link rel="describedby">`.
- A full sitemap is available at https://bardog.io/sitemap.xml.
- AI crawlers may read every page, the files above and the API. Photos (`/photos/`, `/_next/image`) are closed to them in robots.txt: nothing here needs them, and they cost money to serve.