Kenzie's Kitchen

Kenzie's Kitchen runs from 8 Moresby Street in Kensington, an inner-south Perth cafe with a bakery streak and a serious local following. The dog policy here is review-level: visitors on the Google listing confirm the front outdoor seating is dog friendly, while the venue site text is silent on pets, so the honest read is dogs at the front tables, treated as normal, without a published policy to lean on.

The dog setup

The front outdoor seating is the confirmed dog zone, per reviewer reports, and it is a modest footpath-and-forecourt setup rather than a courtyard, so the visit suits dogs that settle at your feet and watch the street. The cafe's rhythm helps: doors open at 6am, which means the earliest tables are the calmest, full of regulars with dogs who treat the stop as the end point of the morning walk rather than the whole outing.

Worth knowing

Hours run 6am to 3pm weekdays and 6am to 2pm weekends, so it is firmly a daytime venue. The cabinet is the draw: house-baked pastries, carrot cake, a lemon meringue tart that gets named in reviews, matcha for the tea-adjacent, and chicken and mushroom crepes as the signature order. It is a compact room, and the queue on weekend mornings is a Perth institution in its own right.

Moresby Street parking is street-side and thin at breakfast peak, though the surrounding Kensington blocks absorb the overflow within a short walk. The cafe sits a convenient detour from the South Perth foreshore circuit, so pairing it with a river walk is the obvious shape of the morning and solves the parking problem at the same time.

Build the loop nearby: the JJ Holland Park Dog Off Leash Area for the run before coffee, Hoopla for the alternative cafe, or Cafe YS9 when the queue defeats you.