Pet-Friendly Restaurants in Los Angeles

The original 1991 Urth Caffé on Melrose, with a vast tree-shaded sidewalk patio that has been one of LA's most consistently dog-friendly tables for three decades. Organic espresso, all-day breakfast, big salads, sandwiches and house-made pastries. The patio runs the full length of the corner lot, water bowls are produced the moment a dog sits down, and it is a fixture of WeHo dog-walking life from breakfast through late night.

A Californian chain that takes the name literally: every Lazy Dog patio has a dedicated dog menu (grilled chicken, brown rice, vegetables, all under 6 $) and free water bowls, and the staff are trained to greet dogs by name on return visits. The Westwood Village location near UCLA has one of the largest covered patios in the chain, with overhead heaters for winter evenings and ceiling fans for August afternoons. Burgers, salads, big plates and a craft-beer list.

A California sandwich and salad chain founded in 2005 with a Downtown LA flagship on Flower Street that runs a generous outdoor plaza facing the Bunker Hill skyscrapers. Every Mendo Farms patio in LA welcomes leashed dogs, water bowls are kept by the door, and the staff are explicitly trained on the AB 1681 patio rules. Sustainably sourced sandwiches, big composed salads, soups; the Pork Belly Banh Mi and the Not So Fried Chicken sandwich are signatures.