HONEYSUCKLE KEBAB AND PIZZA

Honeysuckle Kebab and Pizza is a takeaway and dine-in fixture on the Honeysuckle Drive boardwalk, at 5 Honeysuckle Drive in Newcastle's harbourside dining strip. It is the kind of place you land at mid-walk: order a snack pack or a pizza, take it to the promenade and keep the dog with you the whole time.

The dog setup

Seating is on the paved promenade along Honeysuckle Drive, so dogs are fine at the outdoor tables and on the surrounding boardwalk while you eat. This is a casual kebab-and-pizza shop rather than a dedicated dog cafe, so bring a portable water bowl rather than expecting one on the table. Takeaway is the easy fallback: grab the food and walk it to a bench by the water.

Worth knowing

The menu runs to Australian-style kebabs, burgers and pizza. The snack pack is the signature, chips and cheese with a choice of meats and sauces, and the pizza side includes a peri peri option alongside the usual range. Doors open from 11am daily, trading later into the evening on Friday and Saturday nights, which makes it a workable dinner stop after a late foreshore walk rather than a breakfast venue. Reviewers consistently call out the friendly staff and thin-crust pizzas.

Getting there and parking

The shop sits in the Honeysuckle dining precinct on the harbour side of the city. Street parking runs along Honeysuckle Drive but fills at peak times; the Wilson Parking lot on Honeysuckle Drive and the Civic West car park are both short walks. If you are coming in from the suburbs, Newcastle Interchange and the light rail stop within walking distance, so you can skip parking altogether and arrive on foot with the dog.

Close by with the dogs

The Honeysuckle foreshore path starts right outside for a leashed stroll along the water. For an actual run, Newcastle Dogs Beach is the city's designated off-leash beach a few minutes' drive around the harbour. AJ's at Honeysuckle is a same-precinct cafe option for the morning after, and MoneyPenny on the boardwalk works for a drink later in the day.

More Newcastle options are on the Newcastle destination page, and the full cafe list is in the NSW cafes index.