Dogs are welcome at these Salt Lake County patios this summer season

More than 40 bars and eating places have been accepted to welcome canine buddies for the season.

Even although the climate has been chilly, summer season is coming — and summer season means cute dogs on patios.

The Salt Lake County Health Department introduced Wednesday which Salt Lake County bars and eating places have been accepted to permit dogs on their patios this summer season.

Dog house owners will probably be blissful to be taught that greater than 40 bars and eating places within the county have obtained the regulation variance for the 2024 season that legally permits them to welcome pups to their patios, in response to a information launch.

The variance solely applies to dogs, not another animals, and it doesn’t have an effect on the rights of individuals with ADA service dogs to deliver their animals into the general public areas of a meals institution, the discharge acknowledged. Emotional help animals, nevertheless, have to remain out of the eating room.

To obtain approval, eating places and bars should submit what’s known as a particular processes security plan, pay an software charge of $360, and comply with comply with sure guidelines.

Businesses should publish indicators notifying clients that dogs could also be on the premises. Dogs aren’t allowed within the interior eating space, so dogs (and their people) should use a separate entrance to the patio. The patio have to be cleaned with animal-safe cleaners initially of every shift, and any accidents have to be cleaned up inside 5 minutes.

Waitstaff aren’t allowed to the touch or pet any of the dogs. Dogs have to remain on their leash, and should have a collar with a present license and rabies tag. Dogs aren’t allowed to sit down at (or on) the desk, and aren’t allowed to eat any meals (even dog-approved meals or treats). Dogs additionally aren’t allowed to lick any plates or contact any dishes or cutlery.

The approval is sweet for one summer season season, and institutions in good standing can renew the variance in subsequent years for a charge of $140, the discharge acknowledged.

In 2023, the well being division accepted 50 meals and beverage institutions to permit dogs on their patios, 9 greater than this yr, the discharge acknowledged. Restaurants and bars can nonetheless apply, and businesses which are all for being accepted ought to name the Food Protection Bureau at 385-468-3845.

Handle Barat 751 N. 300 West in Salt Lake City’s Marmalade neighborhood, is so into dogs that they’ve posters of their canine “regulars” hanging of their newly expanded patio space, stated Dave Morris, who’s companions with Jesse Wilkerson at Handle Bar, in addition to the chief working officer of Ice house in Murray. Photos of the bar’s human regulars grasp on the other facet.

The bar has been ensuring to get approval to have dogs on their patio yearly since 2018, together with at Ice Haus. “At Handle Bar, though, we’ve just doubled down on the whole dog thing, and it’s worked really, really well over the last few years,” Morris stated.

Handle Bar has a canine run, and the entrances that result in the bar inside and to the patio are separate (as per the principles) however shut collectively.

In the Marmalade neighborhood, “so many people use walking their dog to go get a beer,” Morris stated. “… You don’t feel like you’re just walking to the bar, you’re walking your dog, which is healthy, right?”

Dogs and their house owners also can access the patio at Violeta restaurant at 588 E. Stratford Ave. in Salt Lake City, proper from the sidewalk.

“It was really important to us to have a dog-friendly patio, because one of the best things about the Highland Park neighborhood, whether it’s rain, snow, wind or shine, everyone is out walking their dogs,” stated Violet co-owner Myra Petersen. “So, we wanted to make sure we were an environment that included our furry animal friends into our restaurant as well.”

The Salt Lake County Board of Health first amended its meals sanitation regulation to permit dogs on outside patios in 2012, as long as the business proprietor utilized for the variance and met all the necessities. The division obtained its first variance purposes three years later, the discharge stated.

Here’s the listing of dog-friendly patios for 2024:

• Bout Time Pub & Grub, 31 W. 10600 South, Sandy.

• Brickyard Bar, 3000 S. Highland Drive, Millcreek.

• Caputo’s on fifteenth, 1516 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City.

• Chappell Brewing, 2285 S. Main Street, South Salt Lake.

• Cotton Bottom Inn, 2820 E. 6200 South, Holladay.

• Deli Kitchen, 1026 E. 2nd Avenue, Salt Lake City.

• Feldman’s Deli, 2005 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City.

• Fisher Brewing, 320 W. 800 South, Salt Lake City.

• Gluttony, two places: 250 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City; and 725 E. 12300 South, Draper.

• Grid City Beer Works, 333 W. 2100 South, Salt Lake City.

• Handle Bar, 751 N. 300 West, Salt Lake City.

• Hash Kitchen, 264 E. 12300 South, Draper.

• Hopkins Brewing, 1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City.

• Hub & Spoke, 1291 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City.

• Ice House, 7 W. 4800 South, Murray.

• Johnny’s on Second, 165 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City.

• Level Crossing Brewing Co., two places: 550 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City; and 2496 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake.

• Localz Bistro, 1850 E. 9400 South, Sandy.

• Mountain West Cider, 425 N. 400 West, Salt Lake City.

• Park Cafe, 604 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City.

• Pig and a Jelly Jar, 401 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City.

• The Porch, 11274 S. Kestrel Rise Road, South Jordan.

• Proper Burger Company, 865 S. Main St., Salt Lake City.

• Red Rock Brewery, 6227 S. State St., Murray.

• RoHa Brewing, 30 E. Kensington Ave., Salt Lake City.

• Shades Brewing, 154 W. Utopia Ave., South Salt Lake.

• Squatters, 147 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City.

• Sugar Space, 132 S. 800 West, Salt Lake City.

• Taqueria 27three places: 149 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City; 4670 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay; and 6154 S. State St., Murray.

• Tea Zaanti, 1944 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City.

• Templin Family Brewing, 936 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City.

• Trolley Wing Company, 602 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City.

• Uinta Brewhouse Pub, 1722 S. Fremont Drive, Salt Lake City.

• Vessel Kitchen, 905 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City.

• Violet, 1588 E. Stratford Ave., Salt Lake City.

• Wasatch Brew Pub, 2110 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City.

• Zest, 275 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City.

To view the entire and present listing of dog-friendly patios, go to https://slco.org/health/food-protection/dog-patio/.