Dog Friendly Restaurants in Shepherdsville, KY

There are 3 dog-friendly restaurants in Shepherdsville that welcome dogs at their outdoor tables, and 330 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 Shepherdsville. Bone appetit!

Pet Friendly Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In
This fast food restaurant on KY-44 offers carhop service and a handful of pet-friendly tables. At Sonic Drive-In you can get burgers and hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, plus fries, tater tots, and mozzarella sticks. Sonic Drive-In is known for their vast selection of drinks, like Frozen Lemonade, Strawberry Limeade, and Grape Sluch with Rainbow Candy. There is also a selection of milkshakes, Sonic Blasts, waffle cone sundaes, and ice cream slushes.
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Pet Friendly Cedar Grove Coffee House
Cedar Grove Coffee House
Cedar Grove Coffee House is a dog-friendly cafe in Shepherdsville, KY, where Fido is welcome to join you at one of the four outdoor tables. Whether stopping in for an early morning tea and bagel or grabbing a panini and smoothie for lunch, this local cafe has you covered. Table service isn't provided, so Fido must remain outside while you order inside.
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Pet Friendly Salt River Brewing Company
Salt River Brewing Company
Bring Fido to Salt River Brewing Company in Shepherdsville, KY. This dog-friendly craft brewery allows pups to join their owners in the outdoor space with picnic tables. Enjoy small-batch lagers, IPAs, sours, and seasonal brews alongside wood-fired pizzas from a massive clay oven and rotating bites from Dockside Bites.
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Pet Friendly Molly Malones
Molly Malones
Molly Malones is a dog-friendly Irish pub in the highlands of Louisville, KY. Order a pint of Guinness and some bangers and mash while you sit with Fido at an outdoor table in the covered patio out front. Your furry friend can also enjoy items off their dog menu during your visit.
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Pet Friendly The Exchange Pub + Kitchen
The Exchange Pub + Kitchen
Housed in a historic Italian-style building constructed in 1875, the Exchange Pub and Kitchen, located in New Albany, IN, has outdoor tables where Fido is welcome to join you for lunch or dinner. The kitchen churns out plenty of high-end pub grub, including scallops, shrimp and grits, steak frites, and fish and chips. The pub side of the establishment provides plenty of American craft beers to accompany your dinner.
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Pet Friendly Merle's Whiskey Kitchen
Merle's Whiskey Kitchen
Merle's Whiskey Kitchen is a lively bar and eatery in Louisville, KY, that serves up a variety of down-home Southern comfort foods. Fido is welcome to join you at one of eight umbrella-covered tables on their pet-friendly side patio while you enjoy lunch or dinner. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, tacos, fried chicken and more.
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Pet Friendly Scout & Scholar Brewing Co.
Scout & Scholar Brewing Co.
Scout & Scholar Brewing Co. in Bardstown, KY is a locally owned craft brewery and restaurant serving small-batch beers alongside elevated American pub fare. Dogs are welcome pet-friendly outdoor tables. The menu includes items like smash burgers, chili cheese dogs, cod sandwiches, chicken tender sandwiches, wings, charcuterie pretzels, crispy potatoes, pepperoni hand pies, salads, and Southern-style dishes like a Kentucky Hot Brown or pork chop, all designed to pair with house-brewed lagers, IPAs, and stouts.
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Pet Friendly Brasserie Provence
Brasserie Provence
Brasserie Provence is an upscale French eatery that serves up delicious dishes crafted with fresh, local ingredients. Choose from menu options including hors d'oeuvres, soups, salads, seafood, steak, sandwiches, charcuterie, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their seven pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with a L'Esterel (Svedka citron, muddled raspberries, lemon, pink grapefruit juice) and an order of the Escargots - oven roasted Burgundy snails with Pernod and walnut garlic butter. Next, chow down on the Red Ruby Trout with herb fingerling potatoes, haricot verts with toasted almonds, and a white wine lemon shallot caper butter sauce. Brasserie Provence is open Monday through Thursday from 11am to 9pm, Friday from 11am to 10pm, and Saturday from 5pm to 10pm.
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Pet Friendly The Rickhouse Restaurant & Lounge
The Rickhouse Restaurant & Lounge
The Rickhouse Restaurant & Lounge is a dog-friendly restaurant in Bardstown, KY, where Fido is welcome to join you at an outdoor table on the patio. Their menu includes steak, pasta, and chicken dishes, burgers, salads, and more. In addition, they have over 140 different bourbons and a large wine selection.
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Pet Friendly Joe's Crab Shack
Joe's Crab Shack
Dogs are welcome at Joe's Crab Shack in Louisville, KY, where they offer pet-friendly tables outside. Their kitchen specializes in churning out dish after dish of fresh fish favorites like scratch-made crab cake dinners with hushpuppies, fish and chips, and steamed seafood buckets.
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Pet Friendly Down One Bourbon Bar & Restaurant
Down One Bourbon Bar & Restaurant
Down One Bourbon Bar and Restaurant is a casual eatery that serves up cold drinks and delicious eats. Choose from a variety of menu options including appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, seafood, chicken, barbecue, and more. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their many pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Start off with a House Old Fashioned (sugar, flamed orange, bitters) and an order of the Bacon Wrapped Medjool Dates with gorgonzola cheese and a bourbon maple glaze. Next, chow down on the highly-recommended Three Little Pigs Sandwich with pulled pork butt, bacon, roasted pork belly, coleslaw, pickles, and mustard BBQ on a roll, served with your choice of side (house chips, fruit, seasoned fries, collard greens, or jalapeno cheddar grits.) Down One is open Monday through Thursday from 11am to 11pm, Friday from 11am to 1am, and Saturday from 4pm to 1am.
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Pet Friendly Impellizzeri's Elizabethtown
Impellizzeri's Elizabethtown
Located in the Stewart Opry House (listed on the National Registry of Historic Places), Impellizzeri's in Elizabethtown, KY offers 16 taps of craft beer selections in addition to over 80 bourbons to select from. Dogs are welcome at tables on the enclosed and heated pet-friendly back patio.
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Pet Friendly Rafferty's Restaurant & Bar
Rafferty's Restaurant & Bar
Rafferty's Restaurant & Bar in Elizabethtown, KY, serves a flavorful menu of bar and grill favorites in a warm and inviting neighborhood setting with dog-friendly outside seating during the summer months. Patrons can please their palates with spinach salad, batter-fried mushrooms, Buffalo chicken mac and cheese, prime rib sandwiches, BBQ bacon burgers, baby back ribs, wood-fired pork chops, and ribeye steak.
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Pet Friendly PARLOUR Jeffersonville
PARLOUR Jeffersonville
PARLOUR, located in Jeffersonville, IN, is a casual pizzeria that serves up a variety of delicious fare. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their pet-friendly outdoor tables on the patio. The menu offers items like smoked wings, fresh salads, pizza, grinders and calzones. Keto-friendly items are also available.
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Pet Friendly The Irish Rover
The Irish Rover
The Irish Rover, located in Louisville, KY, is an Irish-inspired bar and eatery that serves up a variety of delicious pub grub. Fido is welcome to join you at one of their pet-friendly outdoor tables while you enjoy your meal. Choose from menu options including starters, soups, salads, seafood, lamb, sausage, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pork and more. Please note that their patio availability is weather dependent.
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Pet Friendly Saints Pizza and Pub
Saints Pizza and Pub
Saints Pizza and Pub is a dog-friendly eatery in Louisville, KY, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table on the back patio. Besides pizza, Saints also serves pulled pork sliders, meatball sandwiches, Cajun pasta and calzones.
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Pet Friendly The Red Yeti
The Red Yeti
Restaurant and Brewpub with rotating taps and an excellent seasonal menu. Dogs are always welcome at outdoor tables.
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Pet Friendly Mike Linnig's Restaurant
Mike Linnig's Restaurant
Fido can join you at an outdoor table in the shaded grove along the Ohio River of Mike Linnig's Restaurant in Louisville, KY. This dog-friendly, award-winning restaurant serves some of the best seafood in town. Guest can enjoy generous portions of fried fish, shrimp, frog legs, pan-fried oysters, turtle soup, chicken and onion rings.
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Pet Friendly Zombie Taco
Zombie Taco
Zombie Taco is located on Whiskey Row in Louisville, KY. This pet-friendly eatery has an outdoor patio where your furry friend can join you for a meal. Here, burritos, nachos, and tacos are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can also pair your meal in the afternoon or evening with snacks and dessert.
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Pet Friendly Mark's Feed Store Bar-B-Q Fern Creek
Mark's Feed Store Bar-B-Q Fern Creek
Mark's Feed Store has five pet-friendly tables outside, so Fido can join you for some tangy BBQ meat smothered in their signature sauce that is made up of a mixture of twenty-six ingredients and thirteen spices. Mark's dinner entrees include the chicken finger dinner, tender all-breast meat pieces. Alternatively, you may want to try one of their entree salads, such as Mark's BBQ salad: your choice of pork, chicken, or brisket. The dessert menu includes buttermilk crunch, Oreo banana pudding, and caramel apple sundae with nuts.
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