Brews & Bites Beachside Cafe

Brews & Bites Beachside Cafe keeps hours most cafes would not dare: 5am opening, every day, running to 5pm on Mondays and Tuesdays and 8pm the rest of the week. On Farnborough Road in Meikleville Hill, it is the beachside servo of the coffee world in the best sense: the first stop for the dawn patrol crowd coming off the sand, and still serving fish and chips into the evening.

Dogs are welcome in the casual outdoor seating, per the Google listing and local community groups, with standard on-lead etiquette applying. It is reported rather than a formal policy statement, so keep your dog at the table and leashed while you order. Given how much of the local routine is built around walking to and from Meikleville Beach, the dog-friendly setup is less an add-on and more the natural state of the place.

Worth knowing

The kitchen covers the full day: chicken avo toastie and pumpkin fritters in the morning, fish and chips and calamari as the afternoon trades into dinner, with vanilla slice in the cabinet. Half serves are on the board, which matters when the kids want their own basket. Visitors call out the staff as lovely and the portions as generous, and a 5am start means the pre-work surf crew and the dog walkers are the regulars who set the tone. If you time it for sunset over the water, the 8pm close lets the last table of the day run long.

Close by with the dogs

The suburb's other dog-friendly stop is Ol' Coterie, close enough to split the week between the two. For the broader Capricorn Coast run, see the Meikleville Hill destination guide and the QLD dog-friendly cafes list.