There are 3 dog-friendly restaurants in Alachua that welcome dogs at their outdoor tables, and 102 more nearby. Need help to decide where to eat? Here’s a detailed description of each restaurant, along with pictures and reviews from other dog owners. Coming from out of town? Get a discounted rate on pet friendly hotels in Alachua. Bone appetit!
O Sole Mio
O Sole Mio is a dog-friendly Italian restaurant with several outdoor seats available as long as you call ahead. The menu includes daily specials like Monday Pizzamania or the Wednesday seafood nights. They serve an array of Italian options including pasta, specialty entrees, sub sandwiches, and stromboli. O Sole Mio's pizzas can be ordered with gluten free crust at your request. You can also order it by the slice and can choose between the thin crust or the thick, Sicilian-style crust.
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El Toro
El Toro serves authentic Mexican dishes and is available for both dine in and take out. They have six outdoor tables with dog-friendly tables for you and your well-behaved pup. Lunch is served from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm with an intimate menu featuring several combinations options and vegetarian dishes. The dinner menu includes a wide range of entrees, vegetarian dishes, customizable meals, and desserts. They also serve coffee, beer, and house wines.
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Swamp Head Brewery
Swamp Head Brewery offers a wide selection of year-round, seasonal, and limited release beers served in a warm, inviting, and dog-friendly atmosphere. Dogs are permitted inside the tasting room and on the covered patio, but not on tours. Patrons can sample a bold, diverse selection of Florida style brews like Cottonmouth, Wild Night, and Big Nose IPA. Food trucks are usually on site on Friday and Saturday and outside eats are always welcome.
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Wahoo Seafood Grill
Wahoo Seafood Grill in Gainesville, FL, features a variety of seafood dishes, including oysters, gulf shrimp, crab cakes, almond crusted salmon and grouper. Bring Fido along and grab a pet-friendly table on their heated and covered outdoor patio.
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BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
This popular neighborhood bar and grill chain offers classic American eats and a dog-friendly outdoor seating area. Choose from a menu of comfort food favorites such as wings, baby back ribs, New Orleans style jambalaya, fish and chips, ribeye steak, bison burgers, and spaghetti and meatballs. Opens daily at 11am.
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Amelia's
Amelia's specializes in traditional Italian dishes served in a casual and comfortable setting with a gated patio that welcomes dogs. Diners can choose from steamed clams, fired calamari, minestrone soup, linguine bolognese, baked penne, eggplant parm, chicken piccata, and veal scaloppine.
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Chop Stix Cafe
Pan-Asian cuisine such as curry crab Rangoon, Korean kim chi, egg drop soup, and pad Thai noodle bowls. Dogs are welcome at outdoor tables.
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Chuy's Tex-Mex
Chuy's Tex-Mex is a dog-friendly restaurant serving authentic Tex-Mex food in an eclectic atmosphere. Visitors to Gainesville with Fido in tow and a craving for Chile Con Queso can head to one of Chuy's ten outdoor tables to dig in. Chuy's menu is made up of appetizers, salads, soups, burritos, tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, and house specialties such as Chile Rellenos, Chicken Flautas, a Steak Burrito, and Elvis Green Chile Fried Chicken.
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Metro Diner
If you're looking for a great place to stop for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, check out Metro Diner in Gainesville, which has pet-friendly outdoor tables where you and your dog can enjoy a delicious meal on a beautiful day. Metro Diner features comfort food classics like the meatloaf plate, shrimp and grits, or their famous chicken and waffles with sweet strawberry butter. They also serve a wide variety of omelets, sandwiches, salads, burgers, soups, and more. You may recognize Metro Diner from the show Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives!
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The Top
The Top in Gainesville, FL serves creative dishes such as shrimp pot pie and gnocchi with pesto. Front covered seating and patio tables are pet friendly.
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La Tienda Latina
La Tienda Latina is a dog-friendly restaurant in Gainesville, FL, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table. They use fresh ingredients and spices imported straight from Mexico in their dishes, to ensure that you're getting a high-quality and authentic meal every time. Try their classics like the quesadillas, fajitas, burritos, tacos, or ceviche, or go for a specialty like the Huarache.
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Old Florida Cafe
Old Florida Cafe is a dog-friendly restaurant in Micanopy, FL, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table. Try the two local favorites - the "Reubenski," and the "Best Cuban this side of Havana." The Reubenski is made with savory corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand island dressing, all on rye bread and grilled to perfection. The "Best Cuban this side of Havana" consists of premium ham, marinated Spanish pork, swiss cheese, pickles, mustard, and mayo, perfectly pressed and served piping hot off the grill! Quench your thirst with a cold glass of down-home, Southern sweet tea.
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East End Eatery
East End in Gainesville, FL serves a full breakfast and soups, salads, and sandwiches for lunch with plenty if vegetarian and vegan options. Fenced back patio is dog friendly. Please note this restaurant only accepts cash or Venmo.
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Great Outdoors Restaurant
The Great Outdoors Restaurant serves award-winning food such as hand-selected steaks, fresh seafood, signature entree salads, Key West mahi-mahi, rack of ribs, fish tacos, and homemade soups and desserts. Well-behaved dogs are welcome on the patio, but reservations are recommended.
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Curia on the Drag
Curia on the Drag in Gainesville, FL is part coffee shop, wine bar, and art gallery, offering a variety of libations in a casual, trendy setting that welcomes dogs at outdoor tables. Choose from hot and cold coffee drinks, loose-leaf teas from across the globe, French, Italian, and California wine, and an array of popular domestic and foreign beers as well as craft brews from around the country. All outdoor patios and seating areas are dog friendly. They also serve a light plant-based menu of salads, sandwiches, and flatbreads.
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Harry's Seafood Bar & Grille
Harry's Seafood Bar & Grille, located in Gainesville, is a casual seafood restaurant that serves up Cajun and Creole-style cuisine. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, salads, jambalaya, seafood, pasta, chicken, steak, pork, po'boys, burgers, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their fourteen pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with a Bayou Bloody Mary (Tito's vodka, Bloody Mary mix, garnished with a pickled green bean) and an order of the Boudin Balls - Cajun sausage, rice, and Creole seasonings rolled and deep-fried, served with a housemade remoulade. Next, chow down on the Salmon Rockefeller - grilled Atlantic salmon topped with spinach, bacon, and parmesan cheese, finished with a champagne cream reduction, served with smashed potatoes. Or go for the Catfish Pontchartrain - fried catfish and Nola rice topped with etouffee sauce and served with collard greens.
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Cintron - a Floribbean Restaurant
Cintron is a casual eatery in Gainesville, FL offering Floribbean cuisine, a culmination of flavors that are influenced by Caribbean, Asian, and Hispanic populations that emigrate to Florida. Dogs are welcome to join you at umbrella-cast shade tables on a spacious patio, and even get their own dog menu!
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