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Top Dog-Friendly Patios Around D.C.

Sit and stay at one of these pup-approved places

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Bringing a four-legged friend along for dinner or drinks has never been easier. District officials once cracked down on restaurants and bars that hosted pets on patios, but in 2017 D.C. City Council members unanimously approved a bill allowing venues to custom tailor policies about welcoming animals.

These restaurants, bars, and hotel hangouts have patios that openly welcome dogs. Many of these venues also host regular “yappy hours” and offer snacks or full menus specifically geared toward pets. The city is full of outdoor patios, and while every single one isn’t dog-friendly, this list is just the tip of the iceberg of those that are.

This fall, the D.C. area welcomes two new pup-obsessed bars: Snouts & Stouts near Shirlington dog park and Dog Daze Social Club in Logan Circle.

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Bark Social

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This people-friendly, 25,000-square-foot dog park includes a beer garden and bars built into converted shipping containers splashed with rainbow-toned murals that spell out spell out “good pups, full cups.” Houston-based Good Boy Brewing Company supplies nonalcoholic beer made for dogs in flavors like “Mailman Malt Licker,” and everything on the premises must be dog-safe. A recently revamped menu added some healthier items to the line-up. There’s also another Bark Social in Baltimore.

Joy by Seven Reasons

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JOY by Seven Reasons just debuted a weekend “yappy hour” menu from Michelin-starred chef Enrique Limardo. On Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Chevy Chase hotspot offers a robust menu for all four-legged family members on their outdoor patio. The human-friendly menu features meatballs with quinoa salad, salmon with brown rice and lentils, shredded chicken with egg and veggies, carrot cake with a peanut butter greek yogurt topping, and a tropical “pupsicle” (coconut milk, pineapple, orange and mango).

Joy by Seven Reasons has a new “yappy hour” menu.
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Midlands

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This huge outdoor beer hall is a a Park View staple that features rows of picnic tables atop an asphalt “garden” where dogs routinely mix and mingle. While patrons can sip beers poured from one of the 26 taps, dogs can cool off with peanut butter ice cream made made with non-fat yogurt, peanut butter, and maple syrup for $5. It’s possible to do a pup crawl in Park View, which also calls outdoor hangout Hook Hall home.

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Wonderland Ballroom

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This Columbia Heights mainstay, open for nearly 20 years, is frequently jam-packed with dogs sitting on benches next to their burger-eating owners. The vast menu hits all the typical pub classics, including foot-long dogs and loaded fries.

Wet Dog Tavern

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This 6-year-old neighborhood bar, inspired by the owner’s water-loving golden retriever, claims to be D.C.’s first pet-friendly beer garden. A lengthy booze menu includes beer, cocktails, wine, and a daily Jell-O shot.

Colada Shop (Multiple locations)

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While people fuel up on Cuban coffee and pastries at this Caribbean-styled cafe, pets can snack on special guava and peanut butter cookies named after a customer’s loyal dog, Apollo, who loved them. Its Wharf location recently expanded outdoors with a turquoise-tinged patio.

Chaplin's Restaurant

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Shaw’s resident ramen and cocktail bar puts out water bowls for dogs on the patio, where their owners can sip from an array of beer, wine and mocktails. The 65-seat patio at sister spot Zeppelin’s up the street is also dog friendly, with half-priced wine bottles, high-ball cocktails, and draft beer daily from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The Little Gay Pub

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A cute Logan Circle corner formerly home to the Commodore got a new life this spring as a stylish new gay bar serving snacks and cocktails, and its hospitality vet owners know its patio pup regulars by name.

Dovetail Bar & Restaurant

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The glamorous Logan Circle restaurant in the Viceroy Washington D.C. invites patrons to feast on executive chef James Gee’s catch-all dinner menu bursting with colorful produce, seafoods, and plump Roseda Farm burgers, plus a special menu devoted to dogs ($6-$19). Think: beef sirloin tips and veggies with gravy, “Woofle Ball” grilled beef burger patties with bacon, mini dog bones, and whipped pupuccino shots on the house.

Dovetail’s year-round, covered outdoor patio is framed with a faux lawn look.
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Fairmont Washington D.C. Georgetown

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Head to the West End hotel’s posh Courtyard Bar to lounge around with your dog in style. A new VIP (“Very Important Puppy”) menu on Tuesdays features peanut butter and frozen berries, cake-pups, and kibble-rimmed Pawgaritas served alongside Fairmont-branded water bowls. Executive chef Jordi Gallardo and executive chef Jason Rowley also prepare protein-packed doggie dishes featuring brown rice, chicken, salmon, and veggies. Adults can enjoy its newly extended taco Tuesday buffet alongside an ever-popular BeeTini made with its rooftop honey.

The Fairmont’s Tail Wag Tuesdays menu.
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Wunder Garten

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This section of office-heavy NoMa can feel like a concrete jungle, so this massive beer garden with games and lounge seating feels like a reprieve. Happy hour runs Monday through Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. For another all-outdoor D.C. hangout that treats its dogs extremely well, consider Logan Circle’s Aslin Beer.

Michele’s

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Tucked off Eaton Hotel’s lobby, the plant-filled, pup-friendly patio at chef Matt Baker’s downtown restaurant faces peaceful Franklin Park. Open for brunch and dinner.

Stylish outdoor seating at Michele’s welcomes pups and their pals. 
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Opaline Bar and Brasserie

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The Sofitel restaurant’s chic sidewalk patio sends out canine “cocktails” made with homemade juices and fruit garnishes like a strawberry “Bark-ari” and cantaloupe “Puppitini” ($8 each). Along with French fare for humans, executive chef Kevin Lalli prepares doggie dinners featuring beef, chicken or salmon mixed with peas, carrots, and rice ($18 each).

Sofitel’s canine ambassador Lucy (and Louis) with Opaline’s sommelier and Christopher Wilson.
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Art and Soul

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Furry friends at Yotel’s lobby-level restaurant are invited to have a gourmet meal in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. The pooch patio menu includes the A-Woof Con Pollo (chicken, rice, vegetable), grilled and sliced sirloin, and peanut-and-banana pupsicles. Weekdays happy hour (3 p.m. to 7 p.m.) includes adult discounts on executive chef Danny Chavez’s popular confit chicken wings, wine, beer, and cocktails.

BISTRO DU JOUR

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Bring Frenchies out for French fare at the Wharf’s Bistro Du Jour. Not only is their waterfront patio ideal for making new four-legged friends, but they also have homemade dog treats courtesy of award-winning bakery, Mah-Ze-Dahr, for purchase.

Bammy's

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Located at the Yards near green space and a dog park, Bammy’s patio lets you dine with your dog by your side. A packed dinner menu includes curries, stews, jerk pork sandwiches and Caribbean brews.

Caboose Commons (Multiple locations)

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Both Caboose Tavern in Vienna and Caboose Tavern Fairfax welcome dogs on the patio with water bowls and dog treats on hand. At both locations, there’s also branded Caboose merch like growlers, dog collars and leashes. Caboose Tavern’s location right off the Washington & Old Dominion trail means that the patio is an ideal spot to end a long walk with a furry friend.

Dacha Beer Garden (multiple locations)

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Dacha’s massive Navy Yard beer garden is the ideal spot to end a riverside dog walk. It’s a see-and-be-seen sort of spot that can get crowded on a sunny day with a variety of options for beer, food, and treats. The original location in Shaw is also the place to be with a pup on weekends.

Lost Dog Cafe (Multiple locations)

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The owners of the local Lost Dog family of restaurants have their own foundation to save stray or abandoned animals. The outdoor patio is pet-friendly, and the menu includes lots of salad and sandwich options.

Vola’s Dockside Grill and Hi-Tide Lounge

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Named after former city manager and animal activist Vola Lawson, the patio at this waterfont spot in Alexandria offers a special menu just for dogs. Featured items include “Doggie’s Dream,” a beef patty with rice and carrots; “Pupsicles and Apples,” frozen yogurt “bones” with sliced green apples; and grilled chicken breast with white rice and green peas.

Bark Social

This people-friendly, 25,000-square-foot dog park includes a beer garden and bars built into converted shipping containers splashed with rainbow-toned murals that spell out spell out “good pups, full cups.” Houston-based Good Boy Brewing Company supplies nonalcoholic beer made for dogs in flavors like “Mailman Malt Licker,” and everything on the premises must be dog-safe. A recently revamped menu added some healthier items to the line-up. There’s also another Bark Social in Baltimore.

Joy by Seven Reasons

JOY by Seven Reasons just debuted a weekend “yappy hour” menu from Michelin-starred chef Enrique Limardo. On Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Chevy Chase hotspot offers a robust menu for all four-legged family members on their outdoor patio. The human-friendly menu features meatballs with quinoa salad, salmon with brown rice and lentils, shredded chicken with egg and veggies, carrot cake with a peanut butter greek yogurt topping, and a tropical “pupsicle” (coconut milk, pineapple, orange and mango).

Joy by Seven Reasons has a new “yappy hour” menu.
Joy by Seven Reasons

Midlands

This huge outdoor beer hall is a a Park View staple that features rows of picnic tables atop an asphalt “garden” where dogs routinely mix and mingle. While patrons can sip beers poured from one of the 26 taps, dogs can cool off with peanut butter ice cream made made with non-fat yogurt, peanut butter, and maple syrup for $5. It’s possible to do a pup crawl in Park View, which also calls outdoor hangout Hook Hall home.

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Wonderland Ballroom

This Columbia Heights mainstay, open for nearly 20 years, is frequently jam-packed with dogs sitting on benches next to their burger-eating owners. The vast menu hits all the typical pub classics, including foot-long dogs and loaded fries.

Wet Dog Tavern

This 6-year-old neighborhood bar, inspired by the owner’s water-loving golden retriever, claims to be D.C.’s first pet-friendly beer garden. A lengthy booze menu includes beer, cocktails, wine, and a daily Jell-O shot.

Colada Shop (Multiple locations)

While people fuel up on Cuban coffee and pastries at this Caribbean-styled cafe, pets can snack on special guava and peanut butter cookies named after a customer’s loyal dog, Apollo, who loved them. Its Wharf location recently expanded outdoors with a turquoise-tinged patio.

Chaplin's Restaurant

Shaw’s resident ramen and cocktail bar puts out water bowls for dogs on the patio, where their owners can sip from an array of beer, wine and mocktails. The 65-seat patio at sister spot Zeppelin’s up the street is also dog friendly, with half-priced wine bottles, high-ball cocktails, and draft beer daily from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The Little Gay Pub

A cute Logan Circle corner formerly home to the Commodore got a new life this spring as a stylish new gay bar serving snacks and cocktails, and its hospitality vet owners know its patio pup regulars by name.

Dovetail Bar & Restaurant

The glamorous Logan Circle restaurant in the Viceroy Washington D.C. invites patrons to feast on executive chef James Gee’s catch-all dinner menu bursting with colorful produce, seafoods, and plump Roseda Farm burgers, plus a special menu devoted to dogs ($6-$19). Think: beef sirloin tips and veggies with gravy, “Woofle Ball” grilled beef burger patties with bacon, mini dog bones, and whipped pupuccino shots on the house.

Dovetail’s year-round, covered outdoor patio is framed with a faux lawn look.
Scott Suchman/Viceroy

Fairmont Washington D.C. Georgetown

Head to the West End hotel’s posh Courtyard Bar to lounge around with your dog in style. A new VIP (“Very Important Puppy”) menu on Tuesdays features peanut butter and frozen berries, cake-pups, and kibble-rimmed Pawgaritas served alongside Fairmont-branded water bowls. Executive chef Jordi Gallardo and executive chef Jason Rowley also prepare protein-packed doggie dishes featuring brown rice, chicken, salmon, and veggies. Adults can enjoy its newly extended taco Tuesday buffet alongside an ever-popular BeeTini made with its rooftop honey.

The Fairmont’s Tail Wag Tuesdays menu.
Fairmont

Wunder Garten

This section of office-heavy NoMa can feel like a concrete jungle, so this massive beer garden with games and lounge seating feels like a reprieve. Happy hour runs Monday through Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. For another all-outdoor D.C. hangout that treats its dogs extremely well, consider Logan Circle’s Aslin Beer.

Michele’s

Tucked off Eaton Hotel’s lobby, the plant-filled, pup-friendly patio at chef Matt Baker’s downtown restaurant faces peaceful Franklin Park. Open for brunch and dinner.

Stylish outdoor seating at Michele’s welcomes pups and their pals. 
Leading DC

Opaline Bar and Brasserie

The Sofitel restaurant’s chic sidewalk patio sends out canine “cocktails” made with homemade juices and fruit garnishes like a strawberry “Bark-ari” and cantaloupe “Puppitini” ($8 each). Along with French fare for humans, executive chef Kevin Lalli prepares doggie dinners featuring beef, chicken or salmon mixed with peas, carrots, and rice ($18 each).

Sofitel’s canine ambassador Lucy (and Louis) with Opaline’s sommelier and Christopher Wilson.
Sofitel

Art and Soul

Furry friends at Yotel’s lobby-level restaurant are invited to have a gourmet meal in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. The pooch patio menu includes the A-Woof Con Pollo (chicken, rice, vegetable), grilled and sliced sirloin, and peanut-and-banana pupsicles. Weekdays happy hour (3 p.m. to 7 p.m.) includes adult discounts on executive chef Danny Chavez’s popular confit chicken wings, wine, beer, and cocktails.

BISTRO DU JOUR

Bring Frenchies out for French fare at the Wharf’s Bistro Du Jour. Not only is their waterfront patio ideal for making new four-legged friends, but they also have homemade dog treats courtesy of award-winning bakery, Mah-Ze-Dahr, for purchase.

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Bammy's

Located at the Yards near green space and a dog park, Bammy’s patio lets you dine with your dog by your side. A packed dinner menu includes curries, stews, jerk pork sandwiches and Caribbean brews.

Caboose Commons (Multiple locations)

Both Caboose Tavern in Vienna and Caboose Tavern Fairfax welcome dogs on the patio with water bowls and dog treats on hand. At both locations, there’s also branded Caboose merch like growlers, dog collars and leashes. Caboose Tavern’s location right off the Washington & Old Dominion trail means that the patio is an ideal spot to end a long walk with a furry friend.

Dacha Beer Garden (multiple locations)

Dacha’s massive Navy Yard beer garden is the ideal spot to end a riverside dog walk. It’s a see-and-be-seen sort of spot that can get crowded on a sunny day with a variety of options for beer, food, and treats. The original location in Shaw is also the place to be with a pup on weekends.

Lost Dog Cafe (Multiple locations)

The owners of the local Lost Dog family of restaurants have their own foundation to save stray or abandoned animals. The outdoor patio is pet-friendly, and the menu includes lots of salad and sandwich options.

Vola’s Dockside Grill and Hi-Tide Lounge

Named after former city manager and animal activist Vola Lawson, the patio at this waterfont spot in Alexandria offers a special menu just for dogs. Featured items include “Doggie’s Dream,” a beef patty with rice and carrots; “Pupsicles and Apples,” frozen yogurt “bones” with sliced green apples; and grilled chicken breast with white rice and green peas.

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