Tokyo restaurants are more dog-friendly than San Francisco

After spending the last month in Japan and Europe, I have come to the conclusion that, comparatively speaking, you can't take your pet anywhere in the US. Tokyo—as I found out from my friend Mai and her Chihuaranian, Jaky—has tons of dog-friendly restaurants and cafes that serve excellent food. This is a picture of Jaky and Ruby at Enzo in Nishi Azabu. They got to run around while we ate homemade sausage pasta and thin-crust Italian pizza. And in Amsterdam, people were walking in and out of restaurants with their dogs and everyone was riding around in bicycles and mopeds with puppies running alongside them.

While I am horrified by the pet industry in Japan (kill shelters everywhere, backyard breeders breeding for pet stores, pet rentals), I do wish I could get a meal in San Francisco without having to leave Ruby at home. In the US, live animals are not allowed to be in places that serve food because of the health code.

Comments

[D-mon]

No offense, but in most of the Dutch restaurants dogs are simply not allowed. Amsterdam is indeed... Very special in more than one aspect. But the Netherlands are somewhat bigger than just Amsterdam (not much, but you get the picture).
I don not care how cute your dog is, but I do not want to spend my hard earned money in a restaurant where I can be confronted with a dog licking its private parts, because that's what dogs do.

[kenjimori]

in Nea Orleans I found a lot of cafe hotels allowed dog inside.

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