Beach House Falmouth
Café, bar and kitchen sitting directly on Swanpool beach with the coast path running past the door. Dogs are welcome everywhere at Beach House, including the upstairs Top Bar, which the owners describe as completely dog-friendly. Note that Swanpool itself bans dogs 10am to 6pm through July and August.
Falmouth and Pendennis Point
Five and a half easy miles right round the Pendennis peninsula, taking in the working docks, the castle headland and all three town beaches, about two and a half hours on largely surfaced paths. Start from The Moor in the middle of Falmouth or from the castle car park on the point itself; the town has two railway stations on the Truro branch, so this walk is genuinely car-free. There are no stiles and no livestock, but a good deal of it is pavement and dock road where a lead is needed, and every beach on the loop closes to dogs for part of the summer.
Gyllyngvase Beach
Falmouth's main town beach, a gentle curve of sand with gardens behind it and the coast path running along the top. As an award beach it carries the long restriction, closed to dogs from 10am to 6pm between mid-May and the end of September. Swanpool, ten minutes west, only closes in July and August.