Dublin has a new dog – and human – friendly café and it looks FAB
Dog lovers and coffee lovers alike, we've found your new weekend hangout spot.
Dublin's Clanbrassil St has just become the city's most dog-friendly street, thanks to not one but two businesses in the area. Pupp opened last week, on the very same day that MVP, a bar just up the road, announced it was reversing its HSE-led decision and would be allowing dogs back on the premises again.
Describing itself as a "café for dog lovers," Pupp serves up coffees, cakes and other breakfast/lunch delights (for humans and canines) alongside a pretty snazzy doggy boutique.
So if you want a funky three-way leash, a gorgeous collar made from a woven Bolivian blanket, or just a flat white and the chance to ogle the café's resident corgi cross-breed Toby, head to 37 Clanbrassil St, ASAP.
Dog-friendliness has become something of a contentious issue in Ireland's capital of late, after a HSE crackdown saw a number of pubs and cafés told they could not longer allow owners to bring dogs onto their premises.
The general policy has previously (at least informally) been that pub/café owners make their own decision on whether dogs should be allowed, based on their own assessment of the risks involved. A petition to allow dog-friendly pubs and cafés to be officially made legal here already has over 7,000 signatures.
Pupp is open from 8am – 4pm every weekday (except Tuesday), and is open on weekends from 9am – 4pm.
You can also access the doggy boutique online at Pupp.ie.
