Kinky Lizard Cafe Barrack st

Kinky Lizard is a busy CBD cafe at 94 Barrack Street, known for strong house-blend coffee, hearty brunch plates and house-baked cinnamon scrolls. It opens from 6am on weekdays and Saturdays (7am Sundays) and closes mid-afternoon, which makes it a practical first stop before the city wakes up, or a lunch venue after.

The dog setup is the outdoor footpath tables, with indoor seating human-only. The footpath position keeps your dog beside your chair with plenty of foot traffic to watch, and staff are pet-friendly and will bring out a water bowl on request. Come early to catch a footpath table before the weekday breakfast rush.

The vibe

Expect a proper city-caffeine pace: regulars rate the early opening hours, the breaky bruschetta, shakshuka and the popcorn chicken benedict, and the room fills with office foot traffic through the morning. Weekday breakfast and weekend mornings are the busy windows, so a mid-morning weekday visit is the easiest slot to manage a dog on the footpath.

Close by with the dogs

The cafe sits a short walk from Elizabeth Quay and Perth Station, so leaving the car at home is easy; paid street parking on Barrack and Murray Streets is limited in business hours, with nearby CPP parking stations as the reliable fallback. For the walk-off, the Elizabeth Quay via Point Fraser trail runs the river east, the South Perth Foreshore is over the water for a longer stretch, and the Ozone Reserve Fenced Dog Park adds an off-leash option.

Pepsi: City dogs judge by footpath real estate. This one is excellent.

For more options nearby, browse other dog friendly cafes in Western Australia or see what is listed around Perth.