Dog-friendly restaurants & cafés in York

All-day dining, brunches and cocktails in the grandly restored Electric Theatre — York's first cinema — on Fossgate. Dogs are welcome in the bar area, where the full menu is still served. High ceilings and generous spacing make it a roomy midweek option with a dog in tow.

Cafe bar in the old motor house tower at the end of Skeldergate Bridge, with a covered, heated river terrace looking along the Ouse. Dogs are welcome across its quirky rooms and on the terrace. Toasties, paninis and tapas in a prime position at the city end of the New Walk riverside loop.

Design-led, family-run cafe-restaurant at 112 Micklegate serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and afternoon tea amid rotating local art. Dogs are welcome indoors, and the woodsy, unhurried room is calm enough for nervier hounds. One of the city's best seasonal menus on the dog-friendly circuit.

A busy brunch and lunch spot at the city end of Bishopthorpe Road, cooking with local produce and doing it properly. The cafe is clear that dogs are welcome in the outside area but not indoors, so it is one to save for a fine morning. The pavement tables go quickly at weekends.

Library cafe in the lodge at Rowntree Park where you can borrow a book with your coffee and a generous slice of cake. Dogs get a water bowl and are welcome on the terrace, with one designated dog-friendly table inside. The Victorian park around it is an easy on-lead amble beside the Ouse.

Andrew Pern's riverside restaurant in the old Lendal engine house, with a terrace over the Ouse and a published dog policy rather than a vague promise. Dogs on leads may join you in the Bar and the River Room, where water is provided, but not in the carpeted Garden Room or private dining room. Book ahead and say you are bringing a dog.

Independent speciality coffee shop by day and craft beer and cocktail bar by night, with an industrial-chic reclaimed-timber interior and a small courtyard out the back. Dogs are welcome throughout and staff put down water bowls. Excellent toasties, and it sits on York's best food-and-drink street a few doors from the Blue Bell.

Tiny speciality coffee shop packed into the 14th-century Barker Tower on the riverbank beneath Lendal Bridge. It is renowned for being dog friendly, with water and treats for four-legged visitors and homemade cakes from its own bakery for the rest. Seats inside are few; the riverside benches outside catch the morning sun.

A North Street steakhouse with one of the better beer gardens in the city, and a name that rather commits it. Dogs are welcome in the garden and in the interior front dining room, though not through the rest of the restaurant. Adults only, and worth booking at weekends.