The Vallie Store, Indoor Market & Cafe

The Vallie Store is a cafe and indoor market rolled into one at 21 Bell Street, on Yarra Glen's main strip, with stalls from more than 40 local makers trading alongside the coffee machine. It opens at 7am every day, one of the earliest starts in the Yarra Valley, and dogs are part of the deal, which makes it a handy first stop on a valley day trip.

The dog setup

The store is listed as pet-friendly and its own listing flags dogs as allowed inside, not just at the casual street-facing tables out the front. That is unusually generous for a venue with a market attached, so keep the lead short around the stalls and check with staff on the day in case the arrangement has changed. Bring your own water bowl; there is no confirmed one at the door.

Worth knowing

Regulars rate the coffee, the focaccias, egg rolls and muffins, and the market side covers handmade gifts from local small businesses. The kitchen runs quick bites: toasties, rolls and rotating seasonal lunch specials, plus hot chocolate for the non-coffee crowd. With the stalls to browse, a coffee here stretches well past a standard cafe stop.

Getting there and parking

Find it on Bell Street in the Yarra Glen town strip. Free street parking runs along the road and there is a free car park close by, so arriving with a dog in the car is straightforward. From here the wineries are all within a 15 minute drive.

Pair it with

For the run before coffee, the off-leash area at the Yarra Glen Recreation Reserve near the showgrounds is the council-designated option, with open space between Healesville-Yarra Glen Road and the Yarra River; dogs stay leashed everywhere else in town. If the trip is built around cellar doors, Yarrawood Estate and Greenstone Vineyards are both dog-friendly Yarra Glen listings worth pairing with a morning here.

More options around the valley are on the Yarra Glen destination page, and the full list is in the VIC cafes index.