Dog Friendly City Guide: Atlanta, USA
A dog friendly guide to Atlanta: the BeltLine and Piedmont Park, the city's dog-named taverns and breweries, the best barbecue and pizza, and its certified dog friendly hotels.
Atlanta is a city in a forest, and the dog reaps the benefit. The BeltLine has stitched the neighbourhoods together with a walking trail that has become the city's front porch, Piedmont Park anchors the green, and the breweries and taverns lining the route treat the dog as a given. It is leafy, sprawling and easygoing, with a couple of its best-loved bars named for the dog.
Everything below comes from our own verified data, not the booking-site badges that pass for research elsewhere. Each place has been checked as genuinely dog friendly, and the hotels at the end are ranked against the Roch Dog Friendly Standard.
Where to Walk
The walk that changed the city is the BeltLine, whose Eastside Trail runs past breweries and street art into Piedmont Park, the great green heart of Midtown. The Westside and Southside trails carry it on, Grant Park does the historic loop near the zoo, and the granite dome of Stone Mountain gives you the big climb just east of town.
The Taverns and Breweries
A couple of Atlanta's favourites are named for the dog: the Lost Dog Tavern and the Family Dog. Around them, Park Tavern sits on the edge of Piedmont Park, Bantam Pub and the Midway Pub do the neighbourhood local, and Treehouse Restaurant and Pub keeps a patio.
The breweries run deep: SweetWater Brewing, Wild Heaven and the taproom-cafe Taproom Coffee & Beer, with City Winery and Hop City for the wine end.
Barbecue, Pizza and Coffee
For the table, Fox Bros Bar-B-Q is the Atlanta barbecue institution, Fritti and BoccaLupo do the Italian, and the dog-park cafe ParkGrounds lets the dog off the lead while you eat. For a slice, Grant Central Pizza keeps patio room, and Chrome Yellow handles the coffee.
Where to Stay
Which leaves the bed. The Waldorf Astoria in Buckhead is the only Atlanta hotel to earn an A, with the retro Hotel Clermont and the InterContinental Buckhead on a C behind it, each rated and reviewed so you know what the welcome is worth before you book.
The full list of certified dog friendly hotels in Atlanta shows how every one was ranked, and what that ranking buys you and your dog.
This guide was first published on 1 June 2023 and updated on 8 June 2026.
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