Barkin Bistro Dog Food Review & Ratings

Barkin Bistro is one of the strongest ranges we have rated. Across 4 foods it averages 87/100 (Very good), which puts it 27 of 304 brands, and the scores only run from 83 to 89.

That spread of 6 points is the part worth noticing. Plenty of brands have one show-pony recipe and a long tail of cheaper ones, and our brand averages exist mostly to expose that. Barkin Bistro does not have a weak end - whichever recipe you land on, you are buying roughly the same quality of label. Barkin Bistro Cooked leads at 89/100.

The range is mostly raw with a cooked option alongside, all of it complete rather than complementary, so these are meals rather than things you add to meals. That matters more than it sounds: a lot of raw brands score well by selling plain minced meat, which is easy to score highly and impossible to feed on its own. These are formulated to stand alone.

The company is based in Northern Ireland and sells direct as well as through stockists across the UK and Ireland. Frozen raw has real practical costs - freezer space, delivery minimums, defrost discipline - and those are the reasons to hesitate here, not the nutrition.

If raw or fresh-cooked fits your household, this is a range you can buy from without checking each recipe individually. That is rarer than it should be.