Dog Friendly American Restaurants in Union, NJ

There are 5 pet friendly American restaurants in Union that welcome dogs at their outdoor tables, and 219 more nearby. Need help to decide where to eat? Here’s a detailed description of each restaurant, along with pictures and reviews from other dog owners. Coming from out of town? Get a discounted rate on pet friendly hotels in Union. Bone appetit!

Pet Friendly Garden Restaurant
Garden Restaurant
Garden Restaurant, located in Union, NJ, is a casual American eatery serving up delicious fare. Choose from menu options including appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, seafood, lamb, steak, veal, poultry, burgers, sandwiches, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their four pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with an order of the Smoked Salmon, thinly sliced and served with capers, diced onions, and horseradish cream. Next, chow down on the Veal Roulades rolled with spinach, sundried tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese in a Madeira wine sauce. Or go for the Tricolor Salad with Boston lettuce, endive, radicchio, candied walnuts, apples, and crumbled bleu cheese in a house vinaigrette. Garden Restaurant is open Monday through Thursday from 11:30am to 9pm, Friday from 11:30am to 10pm, Saturday from 4pm to 10pm, and Sunday from 3pm to 9pm.
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Pet Friendly Van Gogh's Ear Cafe
Van Gogh's Ear Cafe
Van Gogh's Ear Cafe is a retro-style American eatery serving up delicious fare in a cozy, comfortable setting in Union, NJ. Fido will love it here because they offer a dog menu! He can choose a turkey meatball, frozen yogurt, a puppucino, or barkuterie treats. For you, there are appetizers, salads, burritos, quesadillas, pizza, small plates, sandwiches, and more.
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Pet Friendly Cafe 401
Cafe 401
Cafe 401, located in Union, NJ, is a casual eatery serving up American cuisine with a Portuguese twist. Choose from menu options including breakfast sandwiches, muffins, baked goods, soups, salads, sandwiches, paninis, Portuguese platters, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their two pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Try the Letigre Panini with turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, smoked mozzarella, and BLT sauce on toasted whole wheat bread. Or go for the SoHo Panini with grilled chicken, avocado, roasted red peppers, fresh smoked mozzarella, and chipotle sauce. Cafe 401 is open Monday through Friday from 7am to 4:30pm, and Saturday through Sunday from 8am to 4:30pm.
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Pet Friendly TGI Fridays
TGI Fridays
TGI Fridays provides a diverse menu with familiar favorites sure to please your whole pack. You can bring Fido to this location on US-22 in Springfield Township where there are ten dog-friendly tables outside. The menu items range from wings and salads to burgers and sandwiches. Signature mains include plates like ribs, chicken fingers, salmon, and pasta. The beverage selection is eclectic and refreshing with cocktails and beer as well as non-alcoholic options like smoothies and slushes.
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Pet Friendly Galloping Hill Inn
Galloping Hill Inn
Galloping Hill Inn is a pet-friendly eatery in Union, NJ, where furry friends can unwind beside their owners on the covered patio. Visitors can order from a walk-up window or inside while Fido waits outside. This local fast food-style joint is known for their delicious hot dogs, but they also serve sandwiches, pita stuffers, seafood, salads, wraps, chicken sandwiches and more.
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Pet Friendly Paragon Tap & Table
Paragon Tap & Table
Paragon Tap & Table is a restaurant in Clark, NJ, with pet-friendly outdoor seating and a dog menu! Fido can enjoy a barkcuterie board, a burger, chicken, jerky, frozen treats, or cookies. For humans, the menu changes regularly and includes options like a steak wedge salad, fried calamari, wings, spicy tuna poke, mac and cheese, fresh seafood, chicken & waffles, and pulled duck quesadillas. A full bar with specialty cocktails is also available.
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Pet Friendly Barking Dog Hell’s Kitchen
Barking Dog Hell’s Kitchen
The Barking Dog is a dog-friendly eatery in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York, NY, where Fido is welcome to join you at an outdoor table on the heated patio and gets his own dog menu! Their human menu includes traditional American favorites like sandwiches, wraps, classic hamburgers, pastas, salads and more.
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Pet Friendly Jams Restaurant
Jams Restaurant
Jams at 1 Hotel Central Park in New York, NY, is a contemporary restaurant with a pet-friendly patio and a dog menu! They serve seasonal, market-driven cuisine, with breakfast and brunch dishes, salads, seafood, pasta, burgers, chicken, steak, sandwiches, and desserts.
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Pet Friendly The Barn Kitchen & Bar
The Barn Kitchen & Bar
The Barn Kitchen & Bar in Rockaway, NJ, is a pet‑friendly restaurant where Fido is welcome at outdoor tables and can enjoy a bite off the dog menu. They serve a wide variety of menu items, including shareable appetizers (like crispy calamari, pretzel nuggets, and wings), tacos, burgers (e.g., Big Barn and Sunny Side Burger), sandwiches, pizzas, and hearty entrées like salmon, fish & chips, and pasta dishes.
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Pet Friendly Missy's Main Street Cafe
Missy's Main Street Cafe
Missy's Main Street Cafe in Rockaway, NJ is dog friendly. From May through September, they welcome Fido to join you at an outdoor table where he'll be greeted with a dog menu and a water bowl. For pet parents, they serve a full breakfast, plus wraps, burgers and cheesesteaks to enjoy.
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Pet Friendly Avenue Bistro
Avenue Bistro
Avenue Bistro is a neighborhood favorite specializing in New American cuisine with dog-friendly outdoor tables on their covered patio in Verona, NJ. Fido can even enjoy a meal from their dog menu featuring grilled chicken with potato and rice! Their human menu includes Leggs Benedict (with lobster), grilled hanger steak, firecracker calamari, braised short ribs, and crab cake sandwiches. They also offer brunch on weekends.
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Pet Friendly Banc Cafe
Banc Cafe
Banc Cafe is a great spot for lunch or brunch, serving an array of bar bites, small plates, and salads, plus burgers, quesadillas, and entrees such as braised lamb shank, skirt steak, shepherd's pie, and sauteed chicken over angel hair pasta. Dogs are welcome at patio tables.
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Pet Friendly The Grey Dog
The Grey Dog
The Grey Dog is a dog-friendly cafe and coffee shop in the Flatiron neighborhood where Fido can join you at an outdoor table that's heated in cooler weather. Enjoy breakfast items like French toast, breakfast burritos and omelets. For lunch try one of their fresh sandwiches or salads, grilled cheese dippers, fish tacos, or an Avocado Hummus & Grain Bowl. Beer and wine, and vegan options are also served.
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Pet Friendly Brooklyn Burgers & Beer
Brooklyn Burgers & Beer
Brooklyn Burgers & Beer has a few tables stationed on the sidewalk where Fido can join you for a burger. Part of the dog-friendly seating area is protected by an awning. Brooklyn Burgers & Beer allows you to fully customize every aspect of your burger, which is made from grass-fed, organic beef. The restaurant has a separate menu that caters to vegans.
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Pet Friendly BareBurger
BareBurger
BareBurger is a dog-friendly restaurant in Brooklyn, serving 'organic and all-natural, free-range meats which are grass-fed and pasture raised.' Bareburger offers 10+ outdoor tables to dog owners with Fido in tow wanting to dig into a Blazin' Cattle burger, a brioche bun and beef, piled high with pepper jack, fried pickles, spicy fermented slaw, pickled jalapenos, green leaf, and sriracha mayo. The restaurant's menu includes an array of burgers, with patties made of beef, elk, sweet potato and wild rice, duck, bison, black bean and roasted corn, lamb, farmer's quinoa, and turkey, as well as chicken and falafel sandwiches, a range of salads, mini burgers, many sauces and spreads, and shareable plates such as Rings, Fries, Buttermilk Chicken Bites, Crispy Brussel Sprouts, and more. Sweets and shakes are available to satisfy dessert cravings.
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Pet Friendly Miller's Ale House Woodbridge
Miller's Ale House Woodbridge
Located at the Hampton Inn Woodbridge, NJ, Miller's Ale House is a casual sports bar with a dog-friendly outdoor patio. Dine at an umbrella-covered table where Fido can order from the dog menu while you enjoy house favorites, such as barbeque baby back ribs, English pub fish & chips, a classic cheeseburger, and more. Choose from 35 beers on tap, and be sure to check out their upcoming events.
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Pet Friendly Just Jake's
Just Jake's
Just Jake's is a dog-friendly, family-run bar in Montclair, NJ, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table on the patio. The menu offers burgers, flatbreads, quesadillas, ribeye, and grilled chicken caprese. Happy hour is held every afternoon during the week.
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Pet Friendly Brightside Tavern
Brightside Tavern
Brightside serves burgers, wings, pizza, and entrees like meatloaf and grilled skirt steak. Outdoor seating welcomes dogs.
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Pet Friendly Blue 42 Restaurant and Bar
Blue 42 Restaurant and Bar
Blue 42 Restaurant and Bar is a dog-friendly eatery in Elmwood Park, NJ. Fido is welcome to join you at outdoor seating on their patio. Enjoy their classic American food including a Caesar salad, cheese quesadilla, chicken fingers or a turkey burger. They offer a variety of signature cocktails and draft beer.
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Pet Friendly South + Pine
South + Pine
Leia Gaccione spent seven years as Executive Chef and Chef de Cuisine for Bobby Flay at five of his fine dining restaurants before creating south + pine american eatery, where she invents creative dishes from seasonal ingredients in an inviting atmosphere. Bring Fido along to an expansive dog-friendly patio (20 tables!) while you select from a menu that includes veggie appetizers, salads, inventive meat-and-vegetable entrees, and vegetarian and vegan options. BYOB, or order from the nearby wine shop (they'll bring it to your table!), then try the Burrata appetizer with roasted carrots, sunflower granola, and balsamic honey redux, and go for the Grilled Salmon with coconut quinoa, beet and carrot salad. Add on a side order of Polenta Fries and go home happy. south + pine american eatery is open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30am to 4:00pm, for dinner on Monday through Thursday from 5:00pm to 9:30pm (10:30pm on Friday and Saturday), and on Sunday evenings from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. A special brunch menu is available on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am to 3:30pm.
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