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| Café Bones |
| We visit Australia's first café catering for pooches and their parents. |
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We visit Australia's first café catering for pooches and their parents. Café Bones, in Sydney's Leichhardt has been set up by three local residents utilising an off-leash park and converting a dog club pavilion and former kiosk.
While you sit and enjoy a coffee, your dog is free to run around and play with other dogs. And don't forget to treat him to a "CB Pupaccino" at the Pupaccino Bar or a "Bones Bite".
Australia's first dog café is the brainchild of three women — Mary-Anne Danaher, Kerri Hardman and Lynne Blundell — who met walking their dogs and struck up a friendship. This then developed into champagne picnics to celebrate their birthdays — with dogs in tow of course — and one day they thought wouldn't it be great if there was a café for dogs.
There just happened to be a shed in the park area housing public toilets, a small kiosk and equipment use by the local dog obedience school each Sunday. The women put a proposal to Leichhardt Council last year and got the nod, with trading starting a few months ago.
While dogs are not permitted in the food preparation area, they are free to frolic among open air tables while owners order at the counter. The café is set among two reserves along a canal. There's no main road nearby and there's about a kilometre of off-leash area for the dogs to run around.
For humans, they sell the usual café type food — coffees, teas, soups, snacks, lunchtime bites, friands, etc.. And for dogs, there's a CB Puppacino Bar (CB stands for Club Bones). This is a small bench about two feet high around the corner of the counter. The owners motto is "If it's good enough for humans then it's good enough for dogs." They say the dogs socialise as much as the people and friendships definitely spring up.
The CB Puppacino comes in a steel bowl and is a stock-based drink with a frothy top, sprinkled with herbs. The CB Bones Bites are described as mouth-watering home-baked morsels and liver treats to tempt even the fussiest eaters. The owners used to bake them themselves, but the demand is so great they now get them commercially made on mass.
They also cater for Doggy Birthdays and Puppy Name Days. They make a special Birthday Bone Cake from mince and wholemeal flour with cream cheese icing and sprinkles. The dogs wear party hats and everyone sings happy birthday.
Lynne and Mary-Anne are both journalists and Kerri has a hospitality background.
They also sell fun, colourful dog collars, warm winter coats and the Café Bones Bandanas are just about to come off the production line. Your teapot even comes with a cute doggy tea cosy.
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More Info
Café Bones
Hawthorne Canal Reserve
Canal Road
Leichhardt NSW 2040
Please ring for opening hours
Ph: 0401 388 871
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