Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Dunwoody

Lazy Dog Restaurant and Bar is serving up delicious comfort food in a niche, relaxed, lodge-styled environment. I visited the Dunwoody location, next to Perimeter Mall. As soon as you walk up you are greeted by a red fire hydrant with a glass case showcasing the restaurant's specials. This was the perfect restaurant to enjoy on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The cozy leather hightops and cushioned booths provided the right amount of comfort as I prepared to dig into my meal. Each table had a painted dog paw on it.

The cocktail menu was really impressive and was a leather-bound book of at least five pages of craft cocktails, liquors, sangrias, wines, and beers. The menu was broken down into starters, salads, small plates, soups, noodles, bowls, sandwiches, burgers, sides, fish, chicken, meat, and sweet tooth (desserts). The signature dishes and drinks are highlighted in orange on the menu like the "Southern Fried Chicken Salad". Lazy Dog also has a lunch menu served daily until 4 pm and brunch on weekends between 9 am and 2 pm.

For cocktails, I started with the Smoked Maple Bacon Old Fashioned with housemade bacon-washed tin cup mountain whiskey, cedar smoke, Montenegro amaro liqueur, bitters, maple syrup, and bacon candy. Then I tried the Orange Tang Margarita made with Lunazul tequila, orange tang, triple sec, housemade sweet + sour, and fresh orange. Then it was time for starters and I tried three. My first was the Fried Hush puppies - potato mash, bacon, jack, cheddar, onions, and Tapatio crema first. Next, I had the Crispy Deviled Eggs that were lightly fried, topped with smoked paprika + bacon candy. Then I tried the Street Corn Fries - crispy french fries topped with melted mozzarella, tajin-lime sauce, charred sweet corn, tomatoes, queso Blanco + fresh cilantro. Finally, it was time for entrees and I went with the Fettuccine Alfredo with a parmesan chardonnay cream sauce and added shrimp and chicken. I wrapped up with the BBQ St. Louis Style Pork Ribs, tender st. louis style ribs flash-fried until crispy, brushed with molasses BBQ sauce, peanut sesame slaw, and umami fries. Boy was I stuffed and ready for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Some of the art I enjoyed was the cowgirl riding a horse, a neon fluorescent "America" sign featuring license plates across the U.S., the metal dog statue, and various dog paintings throughout the restaurant. Features to look out for a Lazy Dog. T.V. Dinners are available for purchase that are frozen, ready to be placed in your freezer, and eaten whenever you like. By buying five and getting one free your freezer will be stocked! Super dog-friendly and sunny patio! I will be visiting again and bringing my dog!

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This review is specifically about a Sunday brunch experience in February of 2025. The restaurant was not busy and we were greeted and seated quickly. Our server took our drink and food orders promptly and the rest of service was equally good.

The food and table settings were where we found issues. It felt like they had just recently decided to start serving brunch and they were still figuring out how that should work. Here's our constructive feedback to the restaurant in no particular order:

Include a spoon with the silverware for people who order coffee. The Chicken and Biscuit dish needs attention. The shredded chicken on this dish felt out of place and the texture was off-putting. The piece of fried chicken was overcooked and very tough and dry. No amount of gravy could salvage that. A quiche crust should be blind baked before it is filled with the quiche mixture. This crust was doughy and soggy. The filling was dense and chewy, not light and fluffy. The flavor was good. The coffee we got was bitter and luke warm. Not a good coffee even when dosed with cream and sugar. The creamer was served in ramekins. Ok. I love that you're serving real half 'n' half, but it's weird. Just get some little pitchers. Toast, even if it's not on your menu, should be served with butter and should have color when toasted. The color should be golden brown. If you pull bread off the griddle or out of the salamander and the color hasn't changed, your heat wasn't high enough to carmelize the surface of the bread so now you have warm dry bread. That's not toast. When using devices to pay at the table, please clean them after each use. Nobody wants to be handed a device caked in unknown sticky crusty stuff.

I want to give a shout out to our server Liz. She went above and beyond and was very nice.

Honestly, the staff seemed like they had all the right stuff to make for a good experience, but it didn't gel. Just too many things not working. It would be nice to have another good offering in the neighborhood, but for now I think Spoon, Broken Egg, First Watch, and J Christopher have a better and more consistently...

The queso dip was good, but after another employee brought it to us we didn't see our waitress again until after we had finished our meal. So, we ran out of tortilla chips 2/3 through the dip & per the girl who brought it, we COULD ask for more chips, but who would we ask? We had to ask for silverware when our entrees were brought out, no one came to check that everything was okay or if we wanted more cocktails or water refills (lost at least $20+ on booze sales here). When she brought our check she had forgotten our tv dinners on the check and to have to take home to our children. The entrees were ok, but lacked flavor. The spinach was bland, the chicken had flavor where the minimal syrup hit it & the potatoes & gravy needed some black pepper, garlic, & cayenne to bump up the heat. Overall, not really a fan of the onion saturated dishes due to digestive issues, the prices for so-so food, & a subpar waitress that had the personality of a dead fish. The redeeming thing was the cocktails. Quite delicious & well made.

UPDATE: We decided to give take out a chance. HUGE mistake. We were told that the order would be ready in 16 minutes, we arrived by the time requested and waited another 40 minutes for our order.

The previous weekend we ordered the same exact food and it took 15 minutes. Why it took 56 minutes to make the easiest bowls on the menu and the supposed item holdup was rice and as an avid rice eater, no rice takes more than 35 minutes total. So, this being an excuse and the rice being cold in every item ordered just tells me someone screwed up. The man before us had waited a long time for his order too and got fed up and left and not one of the managers even bothered to remedy our's or anyone else's order issues.

Also, the tables were not bussed in the bar area, the entry area had trash everywhere, and it now smells as gross as restaurants that don't know how to clean like Olive Garden up the road with the carpet that...