13 Rows

13 Rows is the cafe inside the Aumanns garden centre on Harris Gully Road, Warrandyte, and community posts and listings report that the outdoor seating welcomes dogs. Trading runs 7am to 2pm on weekdays, to 2:30pm on Saturday, and from 7am on Sunday, so it is a breakfast and lunch venue rather than an afternoon one.

The setting does much of the work: you eat beside the nursery, with views over the growing rows that give the cafe its name. The menu leans on what is fresh, the barista coffee draws regular praise, and the atmosphere gets described as relaxed by the visitors who find their way out here. Seating sits close to the garden displays, so there is plenty to look at while the food arrives.

Worth knowing

The dog welcome comes by way of visitor reports rather than a written venue policy, so keep your dog settled and leashed at the outdoor tables and take cues from the staff. Garden centres are at their busiest on weekends, which makes a weekday visit the calmer option for a nervous dog. The kitchen closes early, so plan a morning rather than an afternoon run.

Parking sits at the garden centre itself, and the reserve next door shares the same Harris Gully name. Combine the two and you have a nursery browse, a coffee and an off leash walk in a single trip, with no driving in between.

Close by with the dogs

The Harris Gully Reserve Dog Off Leash Area sits right by the garden centre, which makes the pairing about as convenient as it gets. George's Milkbar in Warrandyte is a backup cafe if the queue is long. See our Victorian cafes guide or the Warrandyte dog friendly guide for more of the suburb.