Little Stove Cafe

Little Stove Cafe runs from the Harris Street shops at Shop 97, 103 Harris Street in Bicton, the riverside suburb in Perth's western suburbs between Fremantle and Applecross. It opens 6:30am to 3:30pm every day of the week, a full seven-day service that covers early coffee through to an early-afternoon close. The menu runs beyond cabinet basics: poached eggs and hash browns anchor breakfast, porridge covers the cold mornings, and a gnocchi plate gives lunch some substance.

Dogs are welcome in the dedicated outdoor alfresco seating areas, where water bowls are usually available, and they stay leashed at the table and out of the indoor dining room and the gift shop that shares the space. That is the reported practice from local listings and visitor reports rather than a written venue policy, but the details are consistent: the alfresco is genuinely set up for dogs, with bowls part of the setup. Being leashed-at-table rather than loose-on-the-footpath suits Bicton's quieter streets anyway, since there is little through-traffic to guard against.

The vibe

The fit-out has a vintage streak, and the room is talked up for friendly, attentive staff who run the alfresco tables as attentively as the inside ones. The gift shop element makes it more of a destination stop than a grab-and-go, which suits a slower weekend coffee with the dog at your feet. Early morning is the calm window, with the 6:30am open catching the dog-walk crowd before the brunch service builds; by mid-morning weekends the alfresco fills and the wait moves outdoors, which for dog owners is no hardship at all.

Close by with the dogs

Bicton's cafe circuit is compact: Blendcraft is the nearby specialty-coffee alternative and Fat Boyz covers the heartier end of the strip. The Bicton destination guide and the WA dog-friendly cafe list cover the wider western suburbs.