Bark & Bean Pet Cafe — Restaurant in George Town

Coffee + Dog

After the satisfying breakfast at Pun Chun - we were famished anyway - our journey continued heading North and 2.5 hours later, we arrived in Penang. Time to cure the caffeine fix of the day, and I drove towards this cafe located in Gelugor area. I thought of coming here first because Gelugor is quite far from where we were going to stay for the rest of our vacation.

So I read about this cafe which is dog-friendly and has many dogs to pet. Pet & kids.. they would definitely love this combo. Located right next to a pet shop, we spent about an hour here, enjoying the coffee while the kids pet the canines.

◾3-Layer Chocolate Cake - the cake came with cute art using chocolate syrup. ◾Coffee - can't complain because we could enjoy our coffee with peace of minds, free from the torture of the kids who were busy running around playing with the dogs.

While the cake selections and coffee aren't exactly out of this world, I appreciate the fact that the Pomeranians and other small dogs were there to keep the young...

I like dogs, but the combination of me eating and together with dogs are not what I admire. However, I went because a request from a friend.

There were various breeds including Corgi as having the biggest size of all. And most of them were in diapers as I understand it's unavoidable to keep the cleanliness of the cafe. We were required to order at least one drink per person which I don't mind.

There's one incident that disturbs me is when a kid tries to pet a poodle, the poodle kept on barking at her and it really freaked me out. I was worried about the safety of the kid as she kept approaching the poodle and the poodle kept on barking, not as a playmate but obviously not comfortable with the kid near him.

It's non of my business but I was certainly not enjoying my stay while the incident above is going on. I am afraid to think what will happen if the dog, out of defense, attacked the kid.

Maybe some supervision needs to be...

I came across this cafe via Google. Probably it’s not fair to gave 3 stars but I don’t have good experience here. I brought my toy poodle and she’s energetic which resulted some kids yelling afraid and scared like my Toy Poodle is a Rottweiler. Note to parents: Please don’t bring your children to the pet cafe if they are scared to pets animals like dogs or puppies. My puppy ended being tied up instead of freely interacting with other puppies which was not enjoyable at all. What’s the purpose of pets cafe? It’s supposed to let your pets enjoy themselves freely and the owners can enjoy their drinks and foods without need to follow up with their pets around like at the garden or public area. To pet owners; you must let your pets to wear pampers to enter the cafe or else you will have to buy. I was lucky enough that a nice pet owner gave me one as it was my...