The Toxteth

The Toxteth takes up a big corner of Glebe Point Road, and its FAQs make the dog situation unusually clear for an inner Sydney pub: leashed dogs are welcome anywhere on the ground floor, which takes in the beer garden and the courtyard rather than one token patch of pavement. Better still for anyone who genuinely travels with their dog, the venue runs a dedicated dog menu, with a Sunday doggie roast as the item people come back for.

The dog setup

Because the policy comes from the venue itself, you can plan with confidence: leads stay on, and the ground floor spaces including the courtyard and beer garden are all open to dogs. The dog menu means your dog eats with you rather than watching you eat, and the Sunday roast version has become something of a local ritual. The upper floors stay dog free, so ground floor seating is the whole game, and on busy weekends the courtyard fills early.

The vibe

The pub trades long hours, opening from 10am daily and running late most nights, with Sunday winding up earlier. The kitchen covers the classics well, with the chicken schnitzel and steak frites drawing steady praise, and there is usually trivia or live music somewhere in the week's program. Trams and buses run straight down Glebe Point Road past the door, and street parking in Glebe is the usual inner west exercise in patience, so arriving on foot with the dog is genuinely the easier option.

Pair it with

The Glebe Foreshore Walk starts close by and makes a solid warm up before a courtyard lunch, and Federal Park Dog Park adds an off leash option on the same side of the bay. For another dog friendly counterpoint in the same strip, The Glebe Hotel is up the road. More options sit on the NSW pubs page and in the Glebe guide.