Dog Friendly Restaurants in St. Matthews, KY

There are 4 dog-friendly restaurants in St. Matthews that welcome dogs at their outdoor tables, and 367 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 St. Matthews. Bone appetit!

Pet Friendly El Nopal
El Nopal
El Nopal, located at Shelbyville Road, Saint Matthews, is a casual Mexican eatery that serves up a variety of tasty cuisine. Choose from menu options including appetizers, salads, fajitas, burritos, quesadillas, steak, chicken, seafood, enchiladas, pork, beef, tacos, vegetarian dishes, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their eight pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with an order of the Papa Nachos - potato fries topped with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, white queso, guacamole, sour cream, and jalapenos. Next, chow down on the Tacos De Carne Asada - three tacos stuffed with strips of beef, rice, beans, pico de gallo, and tomatillo sauce. Or go for the Macho Burrito - deep-fried, and filled with shredded beef or chicken, beans, lettuce, and sour cream, topped with white queso and enchilada sauce.
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Pet Friendly Namnam Cafe
Namnam Cafe
Namnam Cafe, located in Louisville, KY, is a casual Asian eatery that serves up a variety of delicious Vienamese dishes. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, noodle bowls, curry, seafood, sandwiches, tacos, and more. Fido is more than welcome to join you at one of their pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with an order of the Imperial Rolls - four Vietnamese fried crispy rolls filled with pork, shrimp, and veggies, served with Nuoc Mam. Next, chow down on the Banh Mi Sandwich with your choice of lemongrass grilled chicken, pork, tofu, grilled beef, or salami and pork pate, with pickled carrots, cilantro, jalapenos, scallions, cucumber, and aioli, atop a light French baguette. Or go for the Pho - a Vietnamese aromatic beef sopu and pho noodles topped with white and green onions, Thai basil, bean sprouts, jalapenos, and your choice of grass-fed beef tenderloin, brisket, or Vietnamese beef meatballs. Namnam Cafe is open Tuesday through Thursday from 11am to 9pm, Friday through Saturday from 11am to 9:30pm, and Sunday from 4pm to 9pm.
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Pet Friendly The Fishery
The Fishery
The Fishery specializes in comfort food and seafood for dine in or carry out. There are nine dog-friendly tables outside so you can partake in some homestyle cooking with Fido. The menu features sandwiches with chicken, shrimp, oysters, crab cakes, and more. You'll also find platters, salads, broiled seafood, and orders by the pound so you can take a meal home to share. The Fishery is open Saturday through Thursday from 11am to 9pm and Friday from 11am to 10pm.
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Pet Friendly Panera Bread
Panera Bread
Panera Bread on Shelbyville Road has four pet-friendly outdoor tables, so you can bring your dog along to dine. The popular national chain serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Stop by early for one of their freshly baked breakfast sandwiches, pastries, or Baked Egg Souffles. Panera Bread is known for their fresh, and clean eating salads, soups, and sandwiches like Bacon Turkey Bravo, Napa Almond Chicken Salad, and Steak and White Cheddar Panini. They have a full espresso and coffee bar where you can get signature drinks like the Hot Chocolate with Chocolate Chip Marshmallows, and Plum Ginger Hibiscus Tea. Please note that table service isn't available, so your dog will need to be tied up outside while you go in to order.
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Pet Friendly Molly Malones
Molly Malones
Molly Malones is a dog-friendly Irish pub in the highlands of Louisville, KY. Order a pint of Guinness and some bangers and mash while you sit with Fido at an outdoor table in the covered patio out front. Your furry friend can also enjoy items off their dog menu during your visit.
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Pet Friendly The Exchange Pub + Kitchen
The Exchange Pub + Kitchen
Housed in a historic Italian-style building constructed in 1875, the Exchange Pub and Kitchen, located in New Albany, IN, has outdoor tables where Fido is welcome to join you for lunch or dinner. The kitchen churns out plenty of high-end pub grub, including scallops, shrimp and grits, steak frites, and fish and chips. The pub side of the establishment provides plenty of American craft beers to accompany your dinner.
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Pet Friendly Joe's Crab Shack
Joe's Crab Shack
Dogs are welcome at Joe's Crab Shack in Louisville, KY, where they offer pet-friendly tables outside. Their kitchen specializes in churning out dish after dish of fresh fish favorites like scratch-made crab cake dinners with hushpuppies, fish and chips, and steamed seafood buckets.
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Pet Friendly Down One Bourbon Bar & Restaurant
Down One Bourbon Bar & Restaurant
Down One Bourbon Bar and Restaurant is a casual eatery that serves up cold drinks and delicious eats. Choose from a variety of menu options including appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, seafood, chicken, barbecue, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their many pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with a House Old Fashioned (sugar, flamed orange, bitters) and an order of the Bacon Wrapped Medjool Dates with gorgonzola cheese and a bourbon maple glaze. Next, chow down on the highly-recommended Three Little Pigs Sandwich with pulled pork butt, bacon, roasted pork belly, coleslaw, pickles, and mustard BBQ on a roll, served with your choice of side (house chips, fruit, seasoned fries, collard greens, or jalapeno cheddar grits.) Down One is open Monday through Thursday from 11am to 11pm, Friday from 11am to 1am, and Saturday from 4pm to 1am.
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Pet Friendly Merle's Whiskey Kitchen
Merle's Whiskey Kitchen
Merle's Whiskey Kitchen is a lively bar and eatery in Louisville, KY, that serves up a variety of down-home Southern comfort foods. Fido is welcome to join you at one of eight umbrella-covered tables on their pet-friendly side patio while you enjoy lunch or dinner. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, tacos, fried chicken and more.
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Pet Friendly Brasserie Provence
Brasserie Provence
Brasserie Provence is an upscale French eatery that serves up delicious dishes crafted with fresh, local ingredients. Choose from menu options including hors d'oeuvres, soups, salads, seafood, steak, sandwiches, charcuterie, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their seven pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with a L'Esterel (Svedka citron, muddled raspberries, lemon, pink grapefruit juice) and an order of the Escargots - oven roasted Burgundy snails with Pernod and walnut garlic butter. Next, chow down on the Red Ruby Trout with herb fingerling potatoes, haricot verts with toasted almonds, and a white wine lemon shallot caper butter sauce. Brasserie Provence is open Monday through Thursday from 11am to 9pm, Friday from 11am to 10pm, and Saturday from 5pm to 10pm.
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Pet Friendly Roosters Wings
Roosters Wings
Roosters Wings, located in Clarksville, IN, has dog-friendly outdoor tables, so you can dine with Fido. The wing is king at Roosters Wings, with boneless or traditional wings in a dozen sauce flavor options, from the mild Carolina Gold to the super hot Nu-Killer. Combine the sauces to create your own flavor. You can even get a Buffalo Chicken Pizza, topped with full-sized wings. Speaking of pizza, you can build your own or go for one of their specialty pies. Roosters Wings has a big selection of appetizers, plus sandwiches, oven-baked subs, soups, salads, and more.
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Pet Friendly PARLOUR Jeffersonville
PARLOUR Jeffersonville
PARLOUR, located in Jeffersonville, IN, is a casual pizzeria that serves up a variety of delicious fare. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their pet-friendly outdoor tables on the patio. The menu offers items like smoked wings, fresh salads, pizza, grinders and calzones. Keto-friendly items are also available.
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Pet Friendly El Maguey Mexican Restaurant Brooks
El Maguey Mexican Restaurant Brooks
El Maguey Mexican Restaurant is a local chain with a pet-friendly location in Brooks, KY. Owners dining with their canine companions can sit at one of the outdoor tables on the covered sidewalk patio. The lunch and dinner menus feature classic options like street tacos, burritos, nachos and fajitas.
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Pet Friendly The Irish Rover
The Irish Rover
The Irish Rover, located in Louisville, KY, is an Irish-inspired bar and eatery that serves up a variety of delicious pub grub. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, salads, seafood, lamb, sausage, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pork and more. Please note that their patio availability is weather dependent.
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Pet Friendly Saints Pizza and Pub
Saints Pizza and Pub
Saints Pizza and Pub is a dog-friendly eatery in Louisville, KY, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table on the back patio. Besides pizza, Saints also serves pulled pork sliders, meatball sandwiches, Cajun pasta and calzones.
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Pet Friendly The Red Yeti
The Red Yeti
Restaurant and Brewpub with rotating taps and an excellent seasonal menu. Dogs are always welcome at outdoor tables.
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Pet Friendly Mike Linnig's Restaurant
Mike Linnig's Restaurant
Fido can join you at an outdoor table in the shaded grove along the Ohio River of Mike Linnig's Restaurant in Louisville, KY. This dog-friendly, award-winning restaurant serves some of the best seafood in town. Guest can enjoy generous portions of fried fish, shrimp, frog legs, pan-fried oysters, turtle soup, chicken and onion rings.
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Pet Friendly Quills Coffee
Quills Coffee
This location of Quills Coffee is part of the Nulu district in Louisville, KY. The dog-friendly coffeehouse allows Fido to join you on its back patio, which is partially covered and surrounded by trees. Their menu features specialty coffee roasts, craft beer, breakfast items, sandwiches and burritos.
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Pet Friendly Zombie Taco
Zombie Taco
Zombie Taco is located on Whiskey Row in Louisville, KY. This pet-friendly eatery has an outdoor patio where your furry friend can join you for a meal. Here, burritos, nachos, and tacos are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can also pair your meal in the afternoon or evening with snacks and dessert.
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Pet Friendly Mark's Feed Store Bar-B-Q Fern Creek
Mark's Feed Store Bar-B-Q Fern Creek
Mark's Feed Store has five pet-friendly tables outside, so Fido can join you for some tangy BBQ meat smothered in their signature sauce that is made up of a mixture of twenty-six ingredients and thirteen spices. Mark's dinner entrees include the chicken finger dinner, tender all-breast meat pieces. Alternatively, you may want to try one of their entree salads, such as Mark's BBQ salad: your choice of pork, chicken, or brisket. The dessert menu includes buttermilk crunch, Oreo banana pudding, and caramel apple sundae with nuts.
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