Restaurants & Bars

A Kitchen Exclusively For Dogs Just Opened On The Upper West Side

The city's first eatery exclusively for dogs serves chef-prepared cuisines to four-legged gourmands.

A dog preparing to eat a meal.
A dog preparing to eat a meal. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Dog owners rejoice, there's now an Upper West Side kitchen where you can take you culinary canine out to dine.

The Just Food for Dogs Lincoln Center Kitchen opened a new outpost on 2025 Broadway, near 70th Street, the restaurateurs announced.

The storefront opened at the end of the June, but the kitchen didn't start firing up meals until last week.

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The location serves up "human quality" food for your doggos, with a kitchen staffed by trained chefs preparing food behind a "bodega-style deli" counter where owners can order grub for their dogs.

It is the first eatery exclusively for dogs in New York City, according to the business.

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The company was founded by Shawn Buckley, who began cooking for his own dog when he "discovered what was legally allowed to be in the dog food."

"I was shocked and angry," an About section on the website reads.

It is Just Food for Dogs's first kitchen in New York, but it has more than 40 across the country. It was recently funded by a venture capitalist firm that sparked a major expansion two years ago.

The Upper West Side location — which used to be a HSBC bank — was originally expected to open in the spring, but got pushed back.

Just Food For Dogs says it is the only whole-dog food company to have commissioned digestibility studies at a major university, and the only to conduct systematic feeding trails on all daily canine recipes.

The meals include a tofu and quinoa recipe that comes with sweet potatoes, kale, white mushrooms, and blueberries. Or your dog could dine on the beef and russet potato, which comes with carrots, green peas, beans, apples, and more.

The new Upper West Side location is open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

You can find out more on its website.

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