Moselle's Cafe + Restaurant

Moselle's Cafe + Restaurant runs the full day on Springfield Lakes Boulevard, opening at 7am and trading through to 8:30pm every night of the week, which is rare range for a lakeside venue. The venue describes itself as pet friendly on its own site, with the lakeside outdoor area welcoming dogs alongside the terrace seating, so this is one of the Ipswich corridor's more confident dog setups.

The lake setup

Ask for a lakeside or terrace table and you get the water frontage that makes this spot, with the deck running along the lake edge. Water dragons sunning themselves near the seating are part of the scenery and most dogs treat them as entertainment rather than provocation, but keep the lead clipped anyway. The all day trade means breakfast, lunch and dinner all work with a dog outdoors, and weekday mornings are the quietest stretch.

The menu covers the day properly: corn fritters and smashed avo for breakfast, burgers through the middle, and a live music calendar some evenings that turns dinner into an event. Coffee service starts with the doors, and the deck fills fast on weekends, so a 7am arrival claims the best dog friendly positions before the walkers descend.

While you're out there

Springfield Lakes is built around its lake circuit, and the off leash space at Springfield Lakes Dog Park gives your dog a proper run before the terrace. For the next morning's coffee, Remedy Espresso Cafe is the suburb's other dog friendly stop, while Screamin' Beans in the neighbouring Springfield covers the commute corridor.

Parking is plentiful around the boulevard centre with bays close to the lake side, and the evening live music nights change the parking rhythm, so arrive early on those. The Springfield Lakes destination page lists the suburb's dog friendly venues, and the Queensland cafes guide extends across the corridor and beyond.