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New York's best dog-friendly bars: craft beer gardens, outdoor patios and neighbourhood spots where your dog gets a water bowl and you get a great drink.
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New York City has a complication that London and most European cities do not: the New York City Health Code, section 81.25, prohibits dogs in any establishment that serves or sells food for human consumption — which is to say, essentially every bar in the city. This is not a technicality that gets quietly ignored; it's enforced. The practical result is that the best dog-friendly bars in New York are outdoor bars, beer gardens, and spaces with uncovered patios that the health code treats as distinct from the interior serving area. They are, once you know where they are, genuinely excellent.
Brooklyn has emerged as the natural home of New York's dog-friendly bar scene — the borough's combination of residential density, dog ownership culture, and its concentration of beer gardens and outdoor bars makes it the best area of the city for drinking with a dog. The following represent the best of what Brooklyn offers.