Canine restaurant Dogue presents pups fancy meals for as much as $75 per meal

Dogue is a fine-dining restaurant solely for canines. And like different haute delicacies institutions, it carries a excessive price ticket.

Neglect the kibble. The menu right here contains hand-cut filet mignon tartare topped with a poached quail egg and savory beef liver flan set in an eggshell with a liver crisp and mirror glaze—and the meals is farm to desk. There’s a glass case crammed with pastries (although these are manufactured from issues like wild venison coronary heart as a substitute of sugar) and patrons can seize a “dogguccino” within the afternoon. On Sundays, Dogue assumes its alternate identification—Bone Appetit Café—and fees $75 for a three-course tasting menu.

Rahmi Massarweh, a skilled chef, oversees the institution. He assessments new recipes on his pack of 4 canines and works with a holistic veterinarian. Dogue began as a specialty retailer for pet food (which it nonetheless sells) earlier than Massarweh took a threat on one thing extra.

He is aware of there might be critics and eye-rolling, however says the purpose is to showcase the advantages of recent meals for canines versus the processed alternate options so a lot of them eat.

“Consuming recent meals is the entire level, whether or not or not we costume it up and garnish it or plate it,” he advised the San Francisco Chronicle. “For me and my spouse, there’s nothing we wouldn’t do for our household, for our canines. They provide us a lot. Essentially the most I can do is make them a meal that appears good.”