Dog Friendly — Pubs in Milton Keynes
Discover dog friendly pubs in Milton Keynes. Browse our directory to find the perfect pub.
Found 35 dog friendly pubs in Milton Keynes
Inn On the Lake
Bond Avenue, Milton Keynes MK1 1PA
Modern pub in octagonal building with bar and restaurant area to the front and large separate function room at the rear. Bar area has leather armchairs and sofas, large screen TV showing news channel with subtitles and no sound. Restaurant overlooks the garden and the lake.
Bull & Butcher
30 Aylesbury Street, Milton Keynes MK2 2BA
Reopened 25th January 2019 after refurbishment and under new licensee and manager. Two bar areas - the first on left and right as you enter has Sports TV screens, with a quieter bar at rear, traditionally used by eaters. Currently no food available, pending refurbishment of kitchen. Has a large garden with tables to the rear. Now has regular live music - see Facebook page. (Due to the change of landlord, the information on this page is likely to change as more refurbishment takes place. The new website will soon be running, so check there.)
Dolphin
Whaddon Way, Milton Keynes MK3 7JZ
Popular two-bar estate pub offering tribute band nights and a carvery on Wednesday and Sunday. Has tables outside on paving and grass.
Eight Belles
28 Buckingham Road, Milton Keynes MK3 5HL
Busy pub with single L shaped room plus a further small room with tables. Third hand pump only at busy times. The area to the right is set for dining and this doubles as a function room with folding doors to separate it from the main bar. Good-sized, partially-covered, paved patio area with plenty of tables and chairs.
Maltsters Arms
45 Aylesbury Street, Milton Keynes MK2 2BQ
This pub has two rooms, one with a pool table and dart board and tables and chairs. The other room is carpeted and has a quieter atmosphere, though there are TV screens in both bars.
Plough
Simpson Road, Milton Keynes MK6 3AH
As you enter the pub, the snug, with its two large settees, tables and chairs and wood burning stove, is to your right. The bar is to the left of the entrance and is furnished with leather chairs and couches around small tables. Through the bar to the rear of the building is a large restaurant looking out onto the garden, which rises towards the canal tow path. The pub was refurbished in February 2016 by the new licensee. There are four hand pumps along the bar with two beers from Wells and the others are used for local real ale or local cider. One real cider is usually available on hand pump and several others in boxes. The garden has always been very popular in summer and the Plough makes a good venue from which to take a stroll along the canal. Further refurbishment in June 2018 and again in 2019 leading to a temporary closure but now re-opened and reverted back to its original name. It is proposed to offer a full meal menu in due course – details to follow.
Red Lion
11 Lock View Lane, Simpson Road, Milton Keynes MK1 1BY
A popular lock-side pub on the Grand Union Canal that re-opened in December 2018 after refurbishment and with new publican. As you enter the pub from the road, the snug is to your left, offering comfortable seating and a quiet place to drink and chat. The archway facing you leads to the main bar with a variety of standard and high tables and chairs. As well as three Cask Marque real ales, a selection of wines, gins, tea and coffee are available. The main bar has a large screen TV showing sports and a dart board. The main bar leads to the well-appointed covered smoking area and the canal lockside garden, both of which have been well refurbished. Dogs are welcome outside (but not in bar) and their own barrel of water has been provided Being close to the canal a washing machine and tumble dryer are usually available for narrow boaters to use. Free parking, but need to give car registration number to bar staff.
Victoria Inn
Vicarage Road, Milton Keynes MK13 9AQ
As you enter, the bar with its four hand pumps is directly in front of you. On your right is a room with a pool table and dart board. To the left is a room on two levels with tables and chairs and an open fireplace; in the winter a cheery real fire will welcomes you. It's a 17th century pub and recent refurbishment has retained its character: exposed beams and low ceilings create a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere. Seating is also available at the front of the pub on a paved terrace for about 30 people. Hosts the annual beer & bun races on Good Friday every year. Winner of local CAMRA branch's Contribution to Local Beer Scene 2019 award.
All Bar One
Unit 2, 320 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 2DF
A modern city centre pub with a single large bar. Very popular in the evenings.
Brewhouse & Kitchen (Milton Keynes)
7 Savoy Crescent, Milton Keynes MK9 3PU
Brewpub boasting a microbrewery in the round with their real ales and other beers brewed on-site. It offers a good range of real ales, craft and other beers. If you ever want to marry in a pub, it is also a licensed marriage venue. There's a range of seating on several levels, including a mezzanine floor and various private hire spaces, including large room on top floor, for weddings, parties, conferences, etc. Terrace at the front has tables and chairs. The decent Indy and Retro music is far from background, but not overpowering so you can still talk. Food is freshly cooked to order with beer used in many recipes; each dish comes with a recommended beer match.
Blacksmiths Arms
1 Downs Barn Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK14 7QG
This is a modern pub situated on a residential estate. There are two rooms, each with a pool table and the bar serves both rooms. One room also has a dart board and cards and poker is played on Sundays. Karaoke is held on Fridays or Saturdays. One of the rooms can be hired for private functions.
Kensington
Kensington Drive, Milton Keynes MK8 9AN
Modern pub on residential estate. The bar is on different levels with the lower level tothe right reserved for dining. there is a small courtyard garden with tables and chairs, most under a canopy. In summer there is a children's bouncy castle.
Lake View MK
Great Linford Lakes, Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes MK14 5AH
This wooden chalet-style pub is in a quiet and isolated location on the Great Linford Lakes estate at the northern tip of Milton Keynes with great view across the lakes. Limited availability of real ale (to ensure it's fresh). Serving local Dark Horse real cider when available. Entering direct from the car park into the bar area, service is on the right and a door through to fishing tackle, etc, shop on right. Another door from the bar takes you into the function room - which is used as a bar when busy. The bar and function room is mainly comprised of trestle tables and chairs, but with some comfy armschairs and a settee in the bar - which also contains a pool table. Outside is a large (fenced) terrace looking across the lake; it has plenty of chairs and tables with a small outside bar for busy periods and a semi-permanent marquee for protection from rain or sun. Further tables and seating can be found beyond the terrace at the pub's northern end. Dog friendly, but near nature reserve. Has esoteric bingo and open mike evenings.
Nag's Head
30 High Street, Milton Keynes MK14 5AX
Local CAMRA Most Improved Pub of the Year. A pretty thatched-roof pub, believed to date from the 16th century at the heart of Great Linford village. It has two bars with low ceilings and exposed beams, giving it a cosy feel, especially when the log-burning stove is lit in the saloon bar. Freshly prepared food and a wide range of drinks including craft and traditional ales and guest beers from local breweries. Monthly quiz night and regular live music events. Newly refurbished large front and rear patio gardens with marquee at rear. On the doorstep of the Grand Union Canal and Linford Manor Park which is undergoing extensive renovations to restore its many historical features. Ever popular with ramblers, dog walkers and narrow-boaters as well as the local community.
Swan
Broughton Road, Milton Keynes MK10 9AH
Very old village pub with thatched roof, low ceilings and inglenook fireplaces. As you enter, the bar is immediately in front of you. To the right and stretching from the bar to the rear of the pub is the restaurant. The far end of the restaraunt, the Garden room, can be separated from the main part of the restaurant by sliding doors and can be hired for weddings and parties. There is an outdoor patio dining area with waitress service. Meals can also be ordered from the bar for eating indoors or in the garden. Smoking is restricted to the far end of the garden. To the left of the bar is the Snug, a small L shaped room, which is quieter than the bar and can also be hired for small gatherings.
New Inn
2 Bradwell Road, Milton Keynes MK13 0EN
This spacious canal side pub retains many original features despite renovations in the 1970s. there is a gathering of folk musicians that meet here once a month for an informal music session. The pub has lovely views from its garden across the canal to Bradwell. It has very friendly service.
Galleon
Old Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes MK12 5NL
Pleasant canal side pub. Parking is on the opposite side of the road and also down the lane at the side of the pub (which leads to an antiques barn and the Virtual Orchard cidery). The beer garden, containing children's play area, can also be accessed directly from this lane. Top performing drag artists with DJ Wayne doing a disco with karaoke last Friday of every month.
Cock Hotel
72-74 High Street, Milton Keynes MK11 1AH
Hotel bar serving Greene King beers plus one seasonal guest ale. The courtyard garden is popular in summer. Food is served all day every day. The function room opens on to the courtyard and is regularly booked for weddings and parties.
Old George
41 High Street, Milton Keynes MK11 1AA
Family run free house in a Tudor building with low ceilings housing a single bar plus a another room at rear. Accommodation is available and hotel licensing laws permit the bar flexible closing times. Four hand pumps with two constantly changing guest beers. Outside courtyard augments the undercover drinking area.
White Horse
49 High Street, Milton Keynes MK11 1AA
A small pub with only one bar, which faces you through the front door. With its entrance arch to the side, it was a coaching inn on Watling Street and dates back to 1540. Although there are three hand-pumps, the third is usually only utilised at busy times, but the pub always feature at least one ale from a local brewery. It has large-screen TVs for sports coverage, but shows other programmes when there is no major sport.
Wavendon Arms
2 Newport Road, Milton Keynes MK17 8LJ
The front entrance to this, probably Victorian, building opens onto the bar and the separate restaurant is to the rear on the right hand side of the bar. The pub has been tastefully refurbished and provides modern comfort whilst retaining some of the building's original features. There is a combination of tiled and wooden floors in the bar with leather armchairs and stools around circular tables and well padded bench seats with scatter cushions in the bay windows. Some of the original walls have been removed to make the bar open plan, but there remain some cosy corners with comfortable seating.
Nut & Squirrel
1 Barnsdale Drive, Milton Keynes MK4 4DD
Popular open plan pub with nooks and crannies offering a traditional multi-room feel. Eating throughout, but there is a restaurant off the bar area. Regularly rotating selection of cask ales with Cask Marque accredited quality, plus several craft beers on tap. Cask Club price reduction Monday and Thursday. Usual extensive Ember Inns food menu; catering for both vegetarians and vegans with a dedicated menu. Located on edge of Westcroft shopping centre and opposite Howe Park woodland. Local CAMRA branch's Most Improved Pub 2019.
Ship Ashore
Granville Square, Milton Keynes MK15 9JL
Part of the Ember Inns group, this is a smart, modern pub on a residential estate not far from Willen Lake and its recreational facilities. The pub comprises one large bar but pillars and half walls break up the area to give a more intimate feel. There is a constantly changing selection of real ales plus the house beer brewed by Black Sheep and called Twilighter IPA. On Mondays and Thursdays, all real ales are £2.89 per pint. Food is served all day and there is also a vegetarian and vegan menu. Drinkers and diners are both made welcome. There is a small garden outside and ample free parking is available.
North Western
11 Stratford Road, Milton Keynes MK12 5LJ
Very much a locals pub with a large L shaped room and a single bar. Named after the railway company which served Wolverton and built the railway works in the town. Reputedly haunted. Good value traditional pub food served daily. Friendly welcoming staff.
New Queen Victoria
47 Church Street, Milton Keynes MK12 5JW
Large corner pub in the heart of Wolverton. Single room with long bar. 2 hand pumps, one serving real ale and one cider. Separate cafe, the Sunnyside Up, serving traditional cafe/pub food unti 3.30pm and South African-themed restaurant, the Braai Shack, serving in the evening (not Monday).
Barge Inn
15 Newport Road, Milton Keynes MK15 0AE
Pub was built in the early 19th century near to the under-construction Grand Junction (now Grand Union) canal linking London with Birmingham. It thrived on trade from the navvies building the canal and then from the narrow boat crews and passengers. Up until well into the 20th century, the beer served at the Barge was brought through on trays from the store at the front of the building. The modern pub has seating in different areas, mostly given to dining. The bar area has an open fire. The dining area has a large conservatory. There are two gardens to front and rear of the pub.
Cross Keys
34 Newport Road, Milton Keynes MK15 0AA
16th-century building with thatched roof. The pub has a bar and a separate restaurant, which was extended and refurbished in 2018. The food is home-made from fresh local produce. Winner of multiple awards. As well as up to six real ales, fresh tea and coffee are available. Has a TV in the bar showing terrestrial channels with subtitles. The patio and garden behind the pub are very popular in summer especially with its summertime large marquee with outside bar.
Olde Swan
Newport Road, Milton Keynes MK6 3BS
Period building, extended over the centuries, with seating on different levels. Most of the pub is given to dining. There is a small but comfortable bar area to one side. There are four hand pumps and the beer selection is from the Greene King range. The large garden is very popular in the summer.
Chequers
48 Watling St, Milton Keynes MK2 2BY
Small, traditional public house with exposed beams and brickwork. Front entrance up several steep steps or low rear door down a step. It now focuses on beer with Vale Gravitas and Red Kite plus two guest beers. The pub welcomes away supporters on match days. It has a small, neat courtyard garden at rear, furnished with wooden tables and bench seats. Small car park at rear. Pub closed Monday & Tuesday.
Lakeside
Brickhill Street, Milton Keynes MK15 9HQ
Large pub beside the popular Willen Lake South, where water sports are available. Very busy, particularly in summer when the Lake attracts many visitors. Refurbished 2018.
Milton Keynes Village Pavilion
Worrelle Avenue, Milton Keynes MK10 9AD
The Pavilion reopened on Saturday 1 August 2015. It is a one room pub furnished with tables and chairs and a pool table. To one side there is a small bar with two hand pumps. The large curved fully glazed wall at the rear has doors leading to a small patio with views across the cricket green. The entrance from the road belies the light airy atmosphere of the bar and the idyllic backdrop. The Pavilion sells unfiltered unpasteurised MK IPA in cans.
Prince George of Cambridge
Portishead Drive, Milton Keynes MK4 3FA
Recently-built and mostly food-oriented McMullen's house on western outskirts of Milton Keynes. It has five hand pumps, but usually only three are in regular use except at busy times. Bar is straight ahead as you enter, with well-designed restaurant area to left and more tables to right. Although it is open plan, pillars and beams give a more friendly feel. The pub has plenty of tables and seating outside in the patio and garden area - being built in a bowl helps catch the sun. Ample parking.
Biergarten
Unit 3, The Triangle, Wolverton Park Road, Milton Keynes MK12 5FJ
Milton Keynes' first micropub and bottleshop opened in 2016 in a retail unit in a prestigious residential development alongside the Grand Union Canal close to Wolverton station. The bottle shop is in front as you enter and the bar at the far end to your left. The corner bar has one cask ale, usually from one of two local breweries and four keg fonts for German and British craft beer. Ciders, wine and spirits are also served. Bottled beer from the shelves or chilled cabinets can be purchased and drunk on the premises. The bar has rustic furniture with low and standard height tables, wooden chairs with cushions, two wing armchairs and a three-seater settee. Fresh flowers are on each table. A bookcase that also has board games and packs of cards. Outside seating is available. Tea and coffee are available, along with artisan pork scratchings. Freshly-baked pretzels are available each month (first Saturday) and Street food is available on most Fridays. The Bottleshop (200 bottles) is arranged into different sections, such as: beers from 18 local breweries, beers from Yorkshire, from London, from Germany and a section for American, Belgian and Scandinavian beers, cider, soft drinks and wine. Several large fridges keep beers chilled for drinking or take-away.
BrewDog Milton Keynes
316 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 2EA
Opened at the end of July 2018, a typical BrewDog bar with twenty taps featuring a mixture of its own brands and guest beers. A wide range of beer styles and ABVs is covered in keg and keykeg; there is occasionally a cask conditioned ale. There is also an extensive selection of bottled and canned beers. The food menu is heavily focused on burgers and wings. The mezzanine area features a ping pong table, and there are pinball machines on both levels. Formerly the first Draft House outlet outside London and before that a Lloyds No.1 / Wetherspoons outlet.
Blackened Sun Brewery Tap
Unit 3, Heathfield, Milton Keynes MK12 6HP
Recent winners of local CAMRA branch awards: Contribution to Local Beer Scene and Chair's Award for Excellence. Venue is a Taproom within the Blackened Sun microbrewery. It has long tables and bench seating, plus some stools. Six taps serve Blackened Sun beers, sometimes a collaboration brew. All are real ales, naturally conditioned, unfined, unpasteurized and unfiltered, served from key-keg; casks are sometimes used during festivals. Bottled house beers and guest beers are also available, including for take-away; growlers can be refilled. Locally-roasted coffee also available. Under-18's welcome before 8pm accompanied by an adult. Dog friendly.