Dog Daze has a pretty cool concept of combinating the social aspects of a bar/restaurant for humans and a park for dogs. The space has plenty of seating (picnic tables and individual chairs) for humans (and maybe dogs) throughout. The space is covered in astroturf, which probably makes clean up easy. From what I saw folks are pretty good with cleaning up after dogs because I did not see too many unattended piles of poop. Since members/guest have to register their dogs and provide vaccination history, there is an extra sense of security (unlike your standard dog park) of knowing that the dogs have been vaccinated. Also, the staff was super nice. The restaurant has a pretty decent list of cocktails, beers, pizzas, sandwiches and other small bit. However, I thought the prices were a bit high (approx. 30 buck for a 14 inch pizza). For example, one gin tonic (a premix) and draft beer with tax and tip was about $35.
Although we enjoyed our time at Dog Daze (about 30 minutes), I got the sense that this place is more of a place for dogs that are very low-key and chill. During our visit, there were about 15 dogs, but most of them were pretty much hanging out near their owners. This is fine, but I was a bit under the impression that this was more of a place where dogs can run around. I'll take a step back, dogs (especially small ones under 30 pounds) probably can run around, but I just did not see too much of it during our visit. Since our 60-pound dog has a LOT of energy and loves to run around for what can seem like days , I decided it was in the best interest of everyone (humans and dogs) to keep him tethered to me. Even when our dog would bark from time to time, I noticed a couple of human patrons looked over at us as if our dog was doing something wrong. I did not really understand this because we were in a dog-friendly environment, and dogs bark.
If you have a high-energy dog, my recommendation would be tire the dog out a bit at the nearby Shaw Dog Park, which is a couple of blocks aways, then drop by Dog Daze to enjoy a couple of drinks and some bites. While I have no major complaints about our experience, I saw Dog Daze more as a really dog-friendly restaurant/brewery rather than place (similar to a dog park) for dogs (especially larger ones) to play by running around. read more