Dog-friendly restaurants & cafés in Bowness

An Asian barbecue restaurant and bar on three floors at 18 Ash Street, a minute up from the Bowness piers. Its own dog page puts the welcome on the ground floor: "Our ground-floor bar is a laid-back spot where you can eat, drink, and relax with your pup", with dogs welcome during all daytime hours, water bowls and treats. Small dogs are also taken upstairs in the first-floor restaurant. They suggest coming before 1pm or after 4pm at weekends if your dog is nervous, which is honest advice for a busy three-storey building.

The restaurant at Windermere Marina Village, south of Bowness past Ferry Nab, looking out over the moorings. Its own page states that there are "spacious indoor and outdoor seating areas where dogs are welcome", with fresh water bowls and complimentary dog treats, and it makes a point of taking muddy paws. Because it is inside as well as out, it is one of the few options round Bowness that still works in weather. The walk in along Ferry Nab Road is a dogs-on-leads area under the council's order.

The Bowness sister of the Coniston cafe, on Glebe Road right on the lake front between the piers and Cockshott Point. The company's own site states the Bowness policy without qualification as "Dogs welcome", where the Coniston entry on the same page limits dogs to the terrace, so this is the more useful of the two if the weather has turned. It opens 9.30am to 4.30pm daily with hot food until 4pm. It sits directly on the Glebe, which is the promenade section where the council's dogs order requires a lead.