Dog Friendly City Guide: New Orleans, USA
A dog friendly guide to New Orleans: walking the French Quarter and the parks, the city's dog-named bars and beer gardens, the best oysters and pizza, and its certified dog friendly hotels.
New Orleans lives outdoors, on the stoop and in the street, and the dog is part of the parade. The city walks its parks and its Quarter at an easy Southern pace, drinks on a hundred porches and patios, and keeps several of its best-loved bars named for the dog. It is humid and it is glorious, and a dog fits the rhythm of the place perfectly.
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 set-piece is the French Quarter itself, best walked early before the heat, with the Crescent Park promenade carrying you along the Mississippi just downriver. Uptown, Audubon Park loops under the live oaks, City Park spreads out even larger to the north, and the Lafitte Greenway connects the Quarter to Mid-City on foot.
The Dog Bars and Beer Gardens
New Orleans names its bars for the dog more than most: the Bulldog, the Three Legged Dog, the Red Dog Diner and the beloved Dat Dog hot-dog counter. Around them, the Avenue Pub is the beer-lover's institution, the Bayou Beer Garden and Delachaise keep the patios full, and Copper Vine and the Orleans Grapevine pour the wine, with NOLA Brewing brewing on site.
Oysters, Pizza and Coffee
The food is a religion here. Felix's does the oysters, Liuzza's the Creole classics, and The Joint the barbecue. For a slice, Pizza Delicious and Theo's keep patio room, and Who Dat Coffee Cafe and the Croissant D'Or cover the morning.
Where to Stay
Which leaves the bed. New Orleans's certified hotels are each assessed and ranked against the Roch Dog Friendly Standard on what they actually do for a dog and its owner, not on what the booking page claims. Browse the full list of certified dog friendly hotels in New Orleans to see how each one was rated, and what that rating buys you and your dog.
This guide was first published on 1 June 2023 and updated on 8 June 2026.
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