Best Dog-Friendly Dining
Terry’s Lounge
Cypress Inn, 684 Lincoln St., Carmel
(831) 620-7454, cypress-inn.com/terrys
When it comes to the circus, dogs are at work, training for acts like the hind-leg walk or leaping through hoops. When they’re done, it’s time to relax, and there is no better place for a pooch to get pampered. The dog menu offers a choice of chicken breast or ground beef with sides of carrots and rice. Yappy Hour features drink specials like the bark-arita (that one is for the human companions). Designated dog cushions invite four-legged friends to hang out in the piano lounge (yes, there are limits: They are not allowed on the furniture). Quite simply, as supervisor Jossie Antopia put it: “We love dogs here.” The dogs, and their humans, love Terry’s Lounge back.