Garden Cafe on Guildford

Garden Cafe on Guildford sits at 317 Guildford Road in Maylands, and the reason dog owners keep coming back is the sheltered rear garden: a cool, undercover alfresco run where dogs are welcome and the shade holds up through warm Perth mornings.

The dog setup

Dogs are welcome in the outdoor and undercover rear garden, not inside the main building. Ask for a garden table when you order; that is where the water bowls and the puppacino treatment happen. Bring your own bowl as backup on a busy weekend, and keep your dog leashed and tucked in close, because the garden still carries foot traffic to the tables.

Worth knowing

The kitchen leans into hearty brunch plates: eggs benedict, potato rosti, pandan pancakes and a solid burger list, with juices and specialty lattes alongside consistently praised coffee. Staff have a local name for being warm with both owners and dogs. It is a family cafe as much as a dog cafe, so a dog that ignores kids and prams fits right in. Note it closes Mondays and trades 7am to 2pm the rest of the week, with a 7:30am Sunday start.

Getting there and parking

The cafe has its own free off-street car park, a genuine win on a stretch of Guildford Road where kerbside spaces fill fast. Transperth buses run along Guildford Road if you would rather not drive, and the cafe is a short walk from the Maylands Peninsula river side.

Close by with the dogs

Bardon Park and the Maylands Peninsula paths along the Swan River make the natural pre- or post-brunch walk, with the full circuit covered by the Maylands Peninsular Loop. For a second visit, Steam Haus near the station has a covered back porch that takes dogs, and Grind @ The Rise is another outdoor-table option in the suburb.

Weekday mornings or early weekend arrivals get the calmest garden tables. More options are on the WA dog cafes guide and the Maylands destination page.